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Week 65: Rock and Renaissance 

Welcome to Week 65 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. Here is the Spotify playlist for Week 65.

Claudio Monteverdi
Orfeo - score - libretto and synopsis
     recommended audio recording: Concerto Vocale conducted by Rene Jacobs
     video recommendation: Nederlandse Opera conducted by Stephen Stubbs

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Piano Concerto No. 23 - score
     recommended recordings: Bilson (fortepiano) with English Baroque/Gardiner; Curzon with London Symphony/Kertesz

Robert Schumann
Cello Concerto - score
      recommended recordings: Ma; Casals; Du Pre; Isserlis

Lukas Foss
Renaissance Concerto

Tan Dun
On Taoism [recorded by the BBC Scottish Symphony but not available on Spotify]

John Coltrane
Blue Train (1957 album)
Giant Steps (1960 album)

Bonus: The Concerto List (Wind and Percussion Edition) 

Here is a list of all pieces in The Works project that are for wind or percussion soloist with orchestra, plus a few that are for multiple soloists that are mainly or exclusively wind instruments. They are listed first by instrument in score order (with the multiple-instrument concerti last), then approximately chronologically.

Concerti grossi, although they are for multiple soloists, are not on this list. There will be a separate list for them.

If the work doesn't have a title beyond “X Concerto” or “Concerto for X and Orchestra”, then only the composer's name is mentioned. If the composer has more than one such concerto, the number or numbers are listed (see Mozart under flute for an example).

FLUTE
Antonio Vivaldi: Op. 10 Nos. 1-6
Christoph Willibald von Gluck (spurious work)
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: No. 1
Carl Nielsen
Charles Tomlinson Griffes: Poem for Flute and Orchestra
Joaquin Rodrigo: Concierto Pastoral
Lukas Foss: Renaissance Concerto
Peter Maxwell Davies: Strathclyde Concerto No. 6

OBOE
Tomaso Albinoni: Op. 7 Nos. 2, 3, 5, 6, 8, 9, 11, 12; Op. 9 Nos. 2, 3, 5, 6, 8, 9, 11, 12 (in both sets, nos. 2, 5, 8, 11 are for two oboes)
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (his Oboe Concerto is also called Flute Concerto No. 2)
Richard Strauss
Eugene Goossens
Henry Cowell: Hymn and Fuguing Tune No. 10
Bohuslav Martinu
Heinz Holliger: Siebengesang
Luciano Berio: Chemins 4
Elliott Carter
Peter Maxwell Davies: Strathclyde Concerto No. 1

CLARINET
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Carl Maria von Weber: Concertino; Concerti Nos. 1-2
Carl Nielsen
Aaron Copland
Gerald Finzi
John Corigliano
Peter Maxwell Davies: Strathclyde Concerto No. 4

BASSOON
Antonio Vivaldi: Concerti R. 466, 467, 469, 470, 474
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Carl Maria von Weber
Peter Maxwell Davies: Strathclyde Concerto No. 8

SAXOPHONE
Claude Debussy: Rapsodie for Alto Saxophone and Orchestra
Luciano Berio: Chemins 7 (also called Recit)

HORN
Franz Joseph Haydn No. 1
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Nos. 1-4
Robert Schumann: Konzertstuck for 4 Horns and Orchestra
Richard Strauss Nos. 1-2
Thea Musgrave

TRUMPET
Georg Philip Telemann: Concerto TWV51:D7
Antonio Vivaldi: Concerti (arrangements of RV103, 548 and 20); Concerti for Two Trumpets RV 537 and 563 (781)
Franz Joesph Haydn
Johann Nepomuk Hummel
Bernd Alois Zimmermann: Nobody Knows the Trouble I See
Peter Maxwell Davies
Luciano Berio: Chemins 6 (also called Kol Od)

TROMBONE
Ellen Taaffe Zwilich: Trombone Concerto; Bass Trombone Concerto

TUBA
Ralph Vaughan Williams

PERCUSSION
Darius Milhaud: Concerto for Percussion and Chamber Orchestra
Bruno Maderna: Quadrivium (for 4 percussionists)
James MacMillan: Veni, veni, Emmanuel

MULTIPLE INSTRUMENTS
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Concerto for Flute, Harp and Orchestra
Aaron Copland: Quiet City (trumpet and English horn)
Frank Martin: Concerto for 7 Wind Instruments, Timpani, Percussion and String Orchestra (flute, oboe, clarinet, bassoon, horn, trumpet, trombone)
Toru Takemitsu: November Steps (shakuhachi and biwa)
Olivier Messiaen: Des canyons aux etoiles (horn, piano, percussion)
Peter Maxwell Davies: Strathclyde Concerto No. 3 (horn and trumpet)
Peter Maxwell Davies: Strathclyde Concerto No. 9 (piccolo, alto flute, English horn, E-flat clarinet, bass clarinet, contrabassoon)

Week 22: Where Jazz and Classical Meet 

Welcome to Week 22 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 22.

Vexilla Regis Prodeunt (plainchant) - text - score
Alma Redemptoris Mater (plainchant) - text - score
Veni Sancte Spiritus (plainchant) - text - score
Victimae Paschali Laudes (plainchant) - text - score
Veni Creator Spiritus (plainchant) - text - score

Paul Hindemith
Sonata for Trumpet and Piano - score (only public domain in Canada)
     recommended recording: Gilbert Johnson/Glenn Gould
Kleine Kammermusik (Op. 24 No. 2) - score (public domain in US & Canada, but not EU)
     recommended recording: Bergen Wind Quintet

Georg Philipp Telemann
12 Fantasias for Flute (unaccompanied) - score
     recommended recording: Claire Guimond

Gustav Mahler
Symphony No. 8 - score - text
      recommended recording: Chicago Symphony/Solti

Frank Zappa
Freak Out! (Mothers of Invention)
We're Only In It For The Money (Mothers of Invention)
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