Welcome to Week 50 of The Works! Start with this week's podcast episode.

The pieces for this week are listed below, along with links to scores and other helpful information. Here is the Spotify playlist for Week 50.

Johann Sebastian Bach
Fantasia and Fugue in C minor, BWV 537 - score
Toccata, Adagio, and Fugue in C major, BWV 564 - score
Toccata and Fugue in D minor, BWV 565 - score
Fantasia in C minor, BWV 1121 - score
     recommended recordings: Weinberger; Hurford; Koopman; Biggs; Goode; Montero (bonus)

Johannes Brahms
Piano Sonata No. 2, Op. 2 - score
     recommended recordings: Vogt; Ax
Bonus: Scherzo, Op. 4 - score

Peter Maxwell Davies
Vesalii Icones
      recommended recording: Fires of London

Max Steiner
King Kong (film score, 1933)

Miles Davis
Get Up With It

Here is a list of all pieces in The Works project that are for one or more keyboard soloists with orchestra. Under each type of keyboard instrument, the list is arranged roughly chronologically.

If the work doesn't have a title beyond “X Concerto” or “Concerto for X and Orchestra”, then only the composer's name is mentioned. If the composer has more than one such concerto, the number or numbers are listed (see Arne under organ for an example).

HARPSICHORD
J. S. Bach: BWV 1052-58 (for one harpsichord); BWV 1060-1062 (for two harpsichords); BWV 1063-1064 (for three harpsichords); BWV 1065 (for four harpsichords)

PIANO AND HARPSICHORD
Elliott Carter: Double Concerto

ORGAN
G. F. Handel: Op. 4 Nos. 1-5; Op. 7 Nos. 1-6
Thomas Arne: Nos. 1-6
Francis Poulenc
Einojuhani Rautavaara: Annunciations

PIANO
W. A. Mozart: Nos. 9-27 (No. 10 is for two pianos)
F. J. Haydn: Concerto in D Major
Ludwig van Beethoven: Nos. 1-5
John Field: Nos. 1-7
Carl Maria von Weber: Konzertstuck J. 282
Frederic Chopin: Nos. 1-2; Variations on “La ci darem la mano”; Andante spinato; Grande polonaise brillant
Felix Mendelssohn: Nos. 1-2
Franz Liszt: Nos. 1-2; Totentanz; Hungarian Fantasia
Robert Schumann
Johannes Brahms: Nos. 1-2
Camille Saint-Saens: Nos. 2, 4, 5
Edvard Grieg
P. I. Tchaikovsky: Nos. 1-3
Antonin Dvorak
Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov
Cesar Franck: Les Djinns; Variations Symphoniques
Edward MacDowell: No. 2
Vincent d'Indy: Symphony on a French Mountain Air
Richard Strauss: Burleske in D Minor
Gabriel Faure: Ballade in F-sharp Minor
Leos Janacek: Concertino; Capriccio (for left hand)
Sergei Rachmaninoff: Nos. 1-4; Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini
Ferrucio Busoni
Max Reger
Sergei Prokofiev: Nos. 1-5
Manuel de Falla: Nights in the Gardens of Spain
Erwin Schulhoff
Igor Stravinsky: Concerto for Piano and Winds; Capriccio; Movements
George Gershwin: Rhapsody in Blue; Piano Concerto
Bela Bartok: Nos. 1-3
Ralph Vaughan Williams
Aaron Copland
Nikolai Medtner: No. 2
Maurice Ravel: Concerto for Left Hand; Concerto in G Major
Francis Poulenc: Concerto for Two Pianos
Dmitri Shostakovich: Nos. 1-2
Aram Khachaturian
Witold Lutoslawski: Variations on a Theme of Paganini; Concerto
Arnold Schoenberg
John Cage: Concerto for Prepared Piano; Concert [sic] for Piano and Orchestra
Olivier Messiaen: Reveil de oiseaux; Sept haikai
Bohuslav Martinu: No. 4
Michael Tippett
Alberto Ginastera: No. 1
Samuel Barber
Elliott Carter
George Perle: Concertino; Concerti Nos. 1-2
Charles Wuorinen: No. 3
Milton Babbitt
Gyorgy Ligeti

Welcome to Week 32 of The Works! Start with this week's podcast episode.

The pieces for this week are listed below, along with links to scores, opera libretto and synopsis, and other helpful information. Here is the Spotify playlist for Week 32.

John Dowland
Thou Mighty God - score
In Darkness Let Me Dwell - score - text
selections from Second Booke of Songes or Ayres - score - texts
selections from Third and Last Booke of Songes or Ayres - score - texts

Cesar Franck
6 Pieces d'Orgue - score

Francis Poulenc
Concerto for Two Pianos and Orchestra - score
Concerto for Organ, Strings and Timpani - score
     note: Poulenc's works are not in the public domain in all countries, so please follow your own country's laws when deciding whether to download the scores.

Richard Strauss
Elektra - score - synopsis and libretto

Brian Eno
Here Come the Warm Jets
Another Green World
Before and After Science

It's week 15 of The Works. First, listen to this week's podcast, then find the playlist for this week here.

The pieces for this week are:

Conrad Paumann
Wach auff mein hort 
Kyrie Angelicum
Redeuntes in idem
Mit ganzen willem

Frederic Chopin
Variations on “La ci darem la mano”

Sergei Rachmaninoff
Symphony No. 3

Anonymous
Gregorian Chant selections

Duke Ellington
Duke's Men: selections from small group recordings 1934-38

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