Welcome to Week 19 of The Works! Start with this week's podcast episode in which we briefly review last week's works, talk about the opera list for the project, and look ahead to this week's playlist.

Here is the Spotify playlist for week 19.

Here are this week's pieces, along with links to the scores where available:

Franz Joseph Haydn
Andante with Variations in F minor - score

Gustav Mahler
Symphony No. 7 - score

Pierre Boulez
Pli selon pli - information

Duke Ellington
The Carnegie Hall Concerts 1943
Selected studio recordings from 1943-46

Welcome to Week 16 of The Works! Start with this week's podcast episode in which we briefly review last week's works and look ahead to this week's playlist.

Here is the Spotify playlist for week 16.

Here are this week's pieces, along with links to the scores where available, and album information:

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Piano Concerto No. 11

Gustav Mahler
Symphony No. 6

Pierre Boulez
Piano Sonata No. 1
Piano Sonata No. 2
Piano Sonata No. 3
This Wikipedia page has information on these pieces.

Duke Ellington
Fargo, ND, Nov. 7, 1940 - YouTube link - album info

Welcome to Week 14 of The Works! Start with this week's podcast episode. We review last week's works, talk about which composers will be most often found throughout this project, and look ahead to this week's playlist.

Here is the Spotify playlist for week 14.

Here are this week's pieces, along with links to the scores where available, and album information:

Giacomo Carissimi
Jephte
   text and translation here

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Don Giovanni
   synopsis, libretto and translation here
   If you don't listen to the whole opera, at least listen to “Là ci darem la mano” and maybe some of the other tracks from the highlights album.

Edvard Grieg
Sonata for Cello and Piano

Pierre Boulez
Répons

Roy Orbison
selected songs

Ricky Nelson
selected songs

Jerry Lee Lewis
Live at the Star Club, Hamburg (1964) - only part of the album is available on Spotify. Also listen to the original studio versions of a few of his most important songs.

Welcome to Week 13 of The Works! Start with this week's podcast episode. We review last week's works, talk about which composers will be most often found throughout this project, and look ahead to this week's playlist.

Here is the Spotify playlist for week 13.

Here are this week's pieces, along with links to the scores where available, and album information:

Domenico Scarlatti
Keyboard Sonatas: K3; K185; K184; K227; K238; K239; K52; K192; K193; K208; K209; K252; K253; K191

Gustav Mahler
Symphony No. 5

Pierre Boulez
Le Marteau sans maître (text and translation here)

Duke Ellington
Early recordings on the OKeh and Columbia labels.

Welcome to Week 11 of The Works! Start with this week's episode of the Listening to the Works podcast, then find the pieces for this week on the Spotify playlist.

Here are the pieces for this week, including links to the scores, texts and translations, and opera synopsis.

Johann Sebastian Bach
Organ Works:
Prelude and Fugue in D Major, BWV 531
Prelude and Fugue in C Major, BWV 532
Toccata and Fugue in F Major, BWV 540 (some recordings are of the Toccata only)
Fantasia and Fugue in C Minor, BWV 562 (recordings are of the Fantasia only as the Fugue is incomplete; the first recording on the Spotify playlist is labeled as BWV 561, but it's actually this piece)
Fantasia in C Major, BWV 570

Giaochino Rossini
Il Barbiere di Siviglia
Libretto
Synopsis

Gustav Mahler
Symphony No. 4
Text and translation

Pierre Boulez
Éclat (for large chamber ensemble)
Structures, Book I (for two pianos)

The Coasters
Selections

Eddie Cochran
Selections

Carl Perkins
Selections, including all of The Dance Album

Welcome to Week 10 of The Works: we've made it to double digits! Start with this week's episode of the Listening to the Works podcast, then find the pieces for this week on the Spotify playlist.

Here are the pieces for this week, including links to the scores and texts where available.

Ludwig van Beethoven
String Quartet No. 3
String Quartet No. 4
Recommended recordings: Takacs Quartet; Quartetto Italiano; Guarneri Quartet

Franz Peter Schubert
Winterreise (text and translation here)
Recommended recordings: Peter Schreier/Andras Schiff; Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau/Gerald Moore (Fischer-Dieskau recorded this song cycle several times with different accompanists; all are recommended)

Pierre Boulez
Rituel in memoriam Bruno Maderna
Notations I-IV for orchestra (originally for piano from 12 Notations)
Recommended recordings: Orchestre de Paris/Barenboim for both pieces; BBC Symphony/Boulez for Rituel

Freddie Keppard
Complete recordings

King Oliver's Creole Jazz Band
Complete 1923 recordings