Welcome to Week 41 of The Works! Start with this week's podcast episode.

The pieces for this week are listed below, along with links to scores and the libretto of the oratorio. Here is the Spotify playlist for Week 41.

George Frideric Handel
Deborah - score - libretto

Robert Schumann
Papillons - score
Waldszenen - score

Ellen Taaffe Zwilich
Concerto Grosso 1985
[Tenor] Trombone Concerto
Bass Trombone Concerto - recordings of 1st - 2nd - 3rd movements (not on Spotify)

Miles Davis
Kind of Blue
Sketches of Spain (with arranger Gil Evans)

Welcome to Week 28 of The Works! This post is a little late again (the week goes from Jan. 5-11, 2026), and there may or may not be a podcast episode this week [update: there wasn't].

The pieces for this week are listed below, along with links to scores, text and translation. Here is the Spotify playlist for Week 28.

Franz Josef Haydn
Symphony No. 16 - score
Symphony No. 22 - score
Symphony No. 26 - score

Felix Mendelssohn
St. Paul (Paulus) - score - text and translation

Erik Satie
Pieces froides ("cold pieces") - score
Trois morceaux en forme de poire ("three pear-shaped pieces") - score
Preludes flasques (pour un chien) ("flabby preludes (for a dog)") - score 
     — [these are the tracks with Japanese text on the playlist]
3 veritables preludes flasques, pour un chien ("3 true flabby preludes, for a dog") - score
Embryons desseches ("desiccated embryos") - score
Sports et divertissements ("sports and pastimes") - score

Thelonious Monk
Brilliant Corners (1957, recorded 1956)
Monk's Music (1957)
Thelonious Monk with John Coltrane (1961, recorded 1957)

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 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.