Welcome to Week 59 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 59.

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Piano Concerto No. 20 - score
     recommended recordings: Curzon with English Chamber Orchestra/Britten; Uchida with English Chamber Orchestra/Tate

Edvard Grieg
Lyric Pieces:
     Book 5 (Op.  54) - score
     Book 6 (Op.  57) - score
     Book 7 (Op.  62) - score
      recommended recordings: Gieseking; Austbo; Katsaris; Gilels; Andsnes

Wolfgang Rihm
Kein Firmament - score preview
Gesungene Zeit - program notes and score preview

The Beatles
Beatles For Sale (1964 UK album)
Help! (1965 UK album)
Rubber Soul (1965 UK album)
Selected non-album songs from 1964-65: I Feel Fine; She's A Woman; Yes It Is; I'm Down; Day Tripper; We Can Work It Out

Welcome to Week 46 of The Works! Start with this week's podcast episode, which includes a quick overview of the nationalities of the composers in the project.

The pieces for this week are listed below, along with links to scores where available. Here is the Spotify playlist for Week 46.

William Byrd
The Great Service - score
     recommended recordings: Tallis Scholars; Choir of King's College, Cambridge

Niccolo Paganini
Le Streghe - score
Moto perpetuo - score

Bela Bartok
Music for Strings, Percussion, and Celesta - score
      recommended recordings: Chicago Symphony/Reiner; Chicago Symphony/Solti

Malcolm Arnold
The Bridge on the River Kwai (film score)

N.W.A.
Straight Outta Compton

Ice Cube
AmeriKKKa's Most Wanted

Welcome to Week 44 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 44.

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Le Nozze di Figaro - score - libretto and synopsis
     recommended audio recording: conducted by Giulini
     video recommendations: conducted by Haitink; conducted by Gardiner (with authentic instruments)

Ludwig van Beethoven
String Quartet No. 8 (Op. 59 No. 2) - score
     recommended recordings: The Lindsays; Guarneri Quartet

Edouard Lalo
Symphonie espagnole - score
      recommended recordings: Mutter; Heifetz

Heitor Villa-Lobos
Bachianas Brasileiras No. 9 - score
     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.

Public Enemy
It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back
Fear of a Black Planet

Here is a list of all pieces in The Works project that are for one or more violin soloists with orchestra (or other large ensemble in a few cases). The list is arranged roughly chronologically. 

If the work doesn't have a title beyond “Violin Concerto” or “Concerto for Violin 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 for an example).

Baroque Era
Antonio Vivaldi: Op. 3 Nos. 3, 6, 9, 12 (single violin); Nos. 5, 8 (two violins); No 4 (four violins); Op. 8 Nos. 1-4 ("The Four Seasons")
J. S. Bach: BWV 1041-1042; BWV 1043 (two violins)
G. P. Telemann: TWV 53:F1 (three violins)

Classical Era
Giuseppe Tartini: Concerto in D minor
W. A. Mozart: Nos. 1-3
Ludwig van Beethoven

Romantic Era
Niccolo Paganini: La Streghe; Moto perpetuo; Concerti Nos. 1-6
Felix Mendelssohn
Robert Schumann
Henri Vieuxtemps: No. 5
Henryk Wieniawski: No. 2
Camille Saint-Saens: Introduction and Rondo Capriccioso; Concerto No. 3; Havanaise
Max Bruch: No. 1
Edouard Lalo: Symphonie espagnole
P. I. Tchaikovsky
Pablo de Sarasate: Zigeunerweisen
Johannes Brahms
Ernest Chausson: Poeme
Jean Sibelius
Edward Elgar

Modern Era
Ralph Vaughan Williams: The Lark Ascending
Karol Szymanowski: Nos. 1-2
Sergei Prokofiev: Nos. 1-2
Kurt Weill
Maurice Ravel: Tzigane
Igor Stravinsky
Roger Sessions
Alban Berg
Arnold Schoenberg
Bela Bartok: No. 2
Ernst Bloch
Benjamin Britten
William Walton
Walter Piston: No. 1
Lou Harrison: Koncherto por la Violino kun Perkuta Orkestra; Suite for Violin and Gamelan
Samuel Barber
Aram Khachaturian
Erich Wolfgang von Korngold
William Schuman
Dmitri Shostakovich: No. 1
Arvo Part: Tabula Rasa (two violins)
Sofia Gubaidulina: Offertorium
Luciano Berio: Corale
Witold Lutoslawski: Chain 2
Philip Glass: No. 1
Elliott Carter
Wolfgang Rihm: Gesungene Zeit
Gyorgy Ligeti
John Adams
Nicholas Maw

Welcome to Week 37 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 37.

Johann Sebastian Bach
6 Sonatas for Violin and Continuo, BWV 1014-1019 - scores
     recommended recordings: Ngai; van Dael; Blumenstock; Manze

Franz Peter Schubert
Piano Quintet, D. 667 “Die Forelle” ["The Trout"] - score
     recommended recordings: Curzon/Vienna Octet; Ma/Ax/Frank/Meyer/Young

Bernd Alois Zimmermann
Requiem fur einen jungen Dichter - information

Miles Davis
Cookin' with the Miles Davis Quintet (1957)
Relaxin' with the Miles Davis Quintet (1958)
Workin' with the Miles Davis Quintet (1960)
Steamin' with the Miles Davis Quintet (1961)
     All of the above consist of tracks recorded on May 11 and October 26, 1956.

Welcome to Week 34 of The Works! This Thursday, February 19, we commemorate Gyorgy Kurtag's 100th birthday. 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 34.

Gyorgy Kurtag
Kafka-Fragmente - text

John Dowland
Lachrimae or Seven Tears - score

C.P.E. Bach
Cello Concerto, H. 439, Wq. 172 - score
Magnificat - score

Henri Vieuxtemps
Violin Concerto No. 5 - score

Miles Davis
4 tracks recorded January 21, 1949
4 tracks recorded April 22, 1949
4 tracks recorded March 9, 1950
all of the above later compiled as Birth of the Cool (1957)

2 tracks recorded October 5, 1951
originally released on Miles Davis: The New Sounds; later included on double-LP Collectors' Items (1973)

6 tracks recorded May 9, 1952
originally released as 10” LP, Young Man with a Horn; later included in the Miles Davis Volumes 1 & 2 compilations (1956 on 12” LPs)

3 tracks recorded January 30, 1953
originally released on 12” LP, Collectors' Items (1956); later included on double-LP Collectors' Items (1973)

6 tracks recorded April 20, 1953
originally released as 10” LP, Miles Davis Volume 2; later included in the Miles Davis Volumes 1 & 2 compilations (1956 on 12” LPs)

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 26 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 26.

Arcangelo Corelli
12 Trio Sonatas, Op. 1 - score
     recommended recording: London Baroque

Eugene Ysaye
6 Sonatas for unaccompanied violin, Op. 27 - score
     recommended recordings: Shumsky; Zimmermann

Gustav Mahler
Symphony No. 9 - score
      recommended recordings: Abbado; Karajan; Bernstein (all with Berlin Philharmonic)

Benjamin Britten
Ceremony of Carols
      recommended recordings: Cleobury; Hill

Captain Beefheart and his Magic Band
Safe as Milk
Trout Mask Replica