Welcome to Week 23 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 23.

Franz Joseph Haydn
Symphony No. 13 - score
Symphony No. 14 - score
Symphony No. 15 - score

Frederyk Chopin
Ballade No. 3 - score
Ballade No. 4 - score
     recommended recordings: Rubinstein; Horowitz; Cortot; Zimerman

Michael Tippett
Triple Concerto (Concerto for Violin, Viola, Cello, and Orchestra)

Frank Zappa
The Best Band You Never Heard In Your Life

John Barry
Dances with Wolves (film score)

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.

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