Welcome to Week 62 of The Works! Start with this week's podcast episode.

The pieces for this week are listed below, along with links to scores where available. Here is the Spotify playlist for Week 62.

William Byrd
Selected Keyboard Works:
     Pavan & Galliard, BK16
     Pavan & Galliard, BK23
     Ground, BK43
     Pavan & Galliard, BK14
     Pavan & Galliards “The Earle of Salisbury”, BK15 - score
     Pavan & Galliard “Sir William Petre”, BK3 - score
     Galliard “Mistress Mary Brownlo”, BK34 (T460) - score
[scores for all of the above can be found in volume one of this edition - BK numbers refer to the order they are presented in this collection]
     recommended recordings: Leonhardt; Moroney

John Taverner
Missa Gloria tibi Trinitas - score
     recommended recording: The Sixteen
Western Wind Mass - score
     recommended recording: Tallis Scholars

Cesar Franck
String Quartet - score

Dmitri Shostakovich
Cello Concerto No. 1
     recommended recording: Rostropovich with Philadelphia Orchestra

Louis Armstrong
Louis Armstrong Plays W.C. Handy (1954 album)
“What a Wonderful World” (1967 single)

Louis Armstrong and Duke Ellington
The Great Summit (originally issued as two albums: Together for the First Time (1961) and The Great Reunion (1963), both from the same recording sessions in 1961)

Welcome to Week 25 of The Works! There may or may not be a podcast episode this week.

Here is the Spotify playlist for Week 25.

Here are this week's pieces:

Giuseppe Verdi
Don Carlo [aka Don Carlos] - score - synopsis, libretto and translation

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Piano Concerto No. 13 - score

Gabriel Faure
Elegie for Cello and Piano - score
Sonata No. 1 for Cello and Piano - score
Sonata No. 2 for Cello and Piano - score

Erik Satie
Vexations - score (not in the public domain in the US)

Duke Ellington
The Afro-Eurasian Eclipse
This One's for Blanton

Welcome to Week 24 of The Works! There is no podcast episode this week, but next episode will discuss the works listened to in both weeks 23 and 24.

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 24.

Claudio Monteverdi
Vespro della Beata Vergine - score and text with translation
     recommended recordings: Gardiner; Parrott

Lou Harrison
Symphony No. 2 “Elegiac”

Claude Debussy
Jeux - score
      recommended recordings: Haitink; Boulez

John Williams
Jaws - film score

Duke Ellington
Duke Ellington & John Coltrane
Far East Suite
New Orleans Suite

Welcome to Week 21 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 21.

Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Eugene Onegin - score - libretto & synopsis
     recommended audio recording: conducted by Levine
     video recommendation: Kirov Opera 1950

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Piano Concerto No. 12 - score
     recommended recordings: Bilson (fortepiano) with English Baroque/Gardiner; Kocsis with Liszt Chamber Orchestra/Rolla

Frederyk Chopin
Ballade No. 1 - score
      recommended recordings: Egorov; Pollini
Ballade No. 2 - score
     recommended recordings: Cortot; Rubinstein

Gunther Schuller
Suite for Wind Quintet
Concertino for Jazz Quartet and Orchestra

Duke Ellington
Ellington at Newport (1956) - the complete concert is on the playlist.
Such Sweet Thunder - the tracks of the original LP are on the playlist first; bonus tracks are found after the extra recordings of Mozart and Chopin.
Money Jungle - same as with Such Sweet Thunder.

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 18 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 18.

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

Giacomo Carissimi
Oratorio: Jonah (Jonas) - score
Oratorio: Judicium Salomonis - score
Oratorio: Judicium Extremum - score

Johannes Brahms
String Quintet No. 2 - score

Igor Stravinsky
Concerto for Piano and Winds
Capriccio for Piano and Orchestra
Movements for Piano and Orchestra

Duke Ellington
The Blanton-Webster Band 1940-42

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

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 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 12 of The Works! Start with this week's podcast episode.

Here is the Spotify playlist for week 12.

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

Anonymous
Gregorian Chant - this album and this album performed by Ensemble Gilles Binchois

Johannes Brahms
String Quintet No. 1

Sergei Rachmaninoff
Symphony No. 2

Duke Ellington
Early recordings on Brunswick and Vocalion - note: I have arranged the playlist so that the pieces NOT composed by Ellington are at the end, after the second recordings of the Brahms and Rachmaninoff pieces.