Welcome to Week 56 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 56.

Ludwig van Beethoven
Fidelio - score - libretto and synopsis
     recommended recording: conducted by Klemperer
     video recommendation: conducted by Haitink

Domenico Scarlatti
Keyboard Sonatas: K. 24, 426, 427, 158, 159, 46, 30, 120, 213, 140, 224, 87, 219 - scores
     recommended recordings: Kipnis; Parmentier

Franz Peter Schubert
Fantasie in C Major, “Wanderer” (D760) - score
     recommended recording: Pollini

Gerald Finzi
Clarinet Concerto - score (this work is NOT public domain in most countries)
      recommended recording: Plane/Northern Sinfonia

Malcolm Arnold
English Dances, Set 1 (1950) and Set 2 (1951)

The Beatles
Please Please Me (1963 UK album)
With the Beatles (1963 UK album)
A Hard Day's Night (1964 UK album)
Selected non-album songs from 1963: From Me to You; Thank You Girl; She Loves You; I'll Get You; I Want to Hold Your Hand; This Boy

Welcome to Week 35 of The Works! Start with this week's podcast episode.

The pieces for this week are listed below, along with links to scores. Here is the Spotify playlist for Week 35.

Domenico Scarlatti
Keyboard Sonatas: K. 82, 266, 284, 507, 214, 404, 124, 536, 494, 113, 26, 548, 37 - scores
     recommended recordings: Benjamin Frith (piano); Scott Ross (harpsichord)

Claude Debussy
String Quartet - score
     recommended recordings: Cleveland Quartet; Emerson Quartet

Heitor Villa-Lobos
Bachianas Brasileiras No. 1 - score
      recommended recording: cellos of the Nashville Symphony
Guitar Concerto - score
     recommended recording: Julian Bream/London Symphony
     note: Villa-Lobos' 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.

Pierre Schaeffer
Etude aux chemins de fer
Symphonie pour un homme seule (with Pierre Henry)

Otto Luening
Fantasy in Space
Low Speed

Vladimir Ussachevsky
Sonic Contours
Reverberation (with Luening)
Transposition (with Luening)

Miles Davis
6 tracks recorded March 6, 1954
originally released as 10” LP, Miles Davis Volume 3; later included in the Miles Davis Volumes 1 & 2 compilations (1956 on 12” LPs)

Bags' Groove – 12” LP released in 1957 from recording sessions on June 29 and December 24, 1954

4 tracks recorded July 9, 1955
originally released as 12” LP Blue Moods; later included on double-LP Collectors' Items (1973)

'Round About Midnight – 12” LP released in 1957 from recording sessions on October 26, 1955, June 5 and September 10, 1956

Welcome to Week 30 of The Works! Start with this week's podcast episode.

The pieces for this week are listed below, along with links to scores, texts, and translations. Here is the Spotify playlist for Week 30.

Domenico Scarlatti
Keyboard Sonatas: K. 460, 461, 478, 479, 502, 516, 517, 518, 519, 529, 544, 545, 546, 547 - scores
     recommended recording: Pinnock (the Spotify playlist includes this entire album, which does not follow the order of K numbers; there is also an alternate recording of each sonata)

Franz Peter Schubert
Selected Lieder:
     An Emma, D. 113 - score - text and translation
     Gretchen am Spinnrade, D. 118 - score - text and translation
     Trost in Tranen, D. 120 - score - text and translation
     Schafers Klagelied, D. 121 - score - text and translation
     Rastlose Liebe, D. 138 - score - text and translation
     Als ich sie erroten sah, D. 153 - score - text and translation
     Nahe des Geliebten, D. 162 - score - text and translation
     An den Mond, D. 193 - score - text and translation
     Seufzer, D. 198 - score - text and translation
     Meeres Stille, D. 216 - score - text and translation
     Wandrers Nachtlied, D. 224 - score - text and translation
     Der Fischer, D. 225 - score - text and translation
     Erster Verlust, D. 226 - score - text and translation
     Heidenroslein, D. 257 - score - text and translation
     Wonne der Wehmut, D. 260 - score - text and translation
     An die Sonne, D. 270 - score - text and translation
     An den Fruhling, D. 283 - score - text and translation
     Lied (Es ist so angenehm), D. 284 - score - text and translation
     An den Mond, D. 296 - score - text and translation
     Augenlied, D. 297 - score - text and translation
     Der Jungling an der Quelle, D. 300 - score - text and translation
     Der Tod und das Madchen, D. 531 - score - text and translation
     (various recordings are recommended)

Philip Glass
Violin Concerto
      recommended recordings: Anthony; McDuffie; Kremer

Thelonious Monk
The Thelonious Monk Orchestra at Town Hall
Big Band and Quartet in Concert

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.