Welcome to Week 71 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 71.

Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Selected Songs:
My Genius, My Angel, My Friend - score - text and translation
from 6 Romances, Op. 6 - score
     2. Not a Word, O My Friend - text and translation
     5. Why? - text and translation
     6. None but the Lonely Heart - text and translation
I Should Like in a Single Word - score - text and translation
from 6 Romances, Op. 28 - score
     3. Why Did I Dream of You? - text and translation
     6. The Frightening Moment - text and translation
from 6 Romances, Op. 38 - score
     1. Don Juan's Serenade - text and translation
     2. It Was in the Early Spring - text and translation
     3, Amid the Din of the Ball - text and translation
from 6 Romances, Op. 63 - score
     2. I Opened the Window - text and translation
     4. First Meeting - text and translation
     5. The Fires in the Room Were Already Out - text (not available in English)
from 6 Romances, Op. 73 - score
     1. We Sat Together - text and translation
     4. The Sun Has Slipped from Sight - text and translation
     6. Again, As Before, Alone - text and translation
recommended recordings: Hvorostovsky; Larin; Kazarnovskaya; Borodina

Franz Joseph Haydn
Piano Sonata, Hob. XVI:37 - score
Piano Sonata, Hob. XVI:40 - score
Piano Sonata, Hob. XVI:49 - score
Piano Sonata, Hob. XVI:52 - score
     recommended recordings: Brendel; Bilson; Odiaga; Schiff

Grazyna Bacewicz
Piano Sonata No. 1
Piano Sonata No. 2 - score [not public domain in all countries]
     recommended recordings: Jablonski; Zimerman

Manuel de Falla
The Three-Cornered Hat - score - text and translation for the vocal part
     recommended recordings: Orchestre de la Suisse Romande/Ansermet; Philharmonia Orchestra/Burgos

John Coltrane
Meditations (recorded 1965)
Interstellar Space (recorded 1967)

Welcome to Week 48 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 48.

Rodion Shchedrin
Carmen Suite (After Bizet)
     recommended audio recording: Russian National Orchestra/Pletnev
     video: this video appears to be the original choreography

Guillaume DuFay
Selected Motets:
  Vasilissa ergo gaude - score
  *O sancte Sebastiane - score
  O gemma, lux et speculum - score
  Apostolo glorioso - score
  Rite majorem Jacobus - score
  *Ecclesie militantis - score
  Balsamus et munda cera - score
  Supremum est mortalibus - score
  *Nuper rosarum flores - score
  *Salve flos Tusce gentis - score
  Magnanime gentes laudes - score
  Fulgens iubar ecclesiae dei - score
  Moribus et generae
     recommended recordings: Huelgas Ensemble (all of the above); Hilliard Ensemble (* selections)

Franz Liszt
Tasso: Lamento e trionfo - score
      recommended recordings: Orchestre de Paris/Solti; Budapest Symphony/Joo
Les preludes - score
     recommended recordings: Philadelphia Orchestra/Muti; Berlin Philharmonic/Karajan

Sergei Prokofiev
String Quartet No. 1 - score

Miles Davis
In a Silent Way
Bitches Brew
A Tribute to Jack Johnson

It's Week 20 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 20.

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

Ludwig van Beethoven
String Quartet No. 5 - score
String Quartet No. 6 - score

Franz Peter Schubert
Schwanengesang - score - text

Arnold Schoenberg
Erwartung - score - synopsis
A Survivor from Warsaw - text - score (not public domain in US)

Erik Satie
Parade - score - information

Tim Buckley
Goodbye and Hello
Happy Sad
     bonus: Dream Letter (Live in London 1968)