Welcome to Week 70 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 other helpful information. Here is the Spotify playlist for Week 70.

William Mundy
O Lord, the Maker of All Thing - score and text

Thomas Weelkes
Alleluia, I Heard a Voice - score and text
O How Amiable Are Thy Dwellings - score and text
O, Jonathan, Woe Is Me for Thee - score and text
All People Clap Your Hands - score and text
O Happy He Whom Thou Protect'st
Lord, to Thee I Make My Moan - score and text
All Laud and Praise
Laboravi in gemitu meo - score and text
O Lord, Arise - score and text
Give Ear, O Lord
If King Manasses
O Lord, Grant the King a Long Life - score and text
Give the King Thy Judgements
Gloria in Excelsis Deo - score and text
When David Heard - score and text
Hosanna to the Son of David - score and text
     recommended recordings: Consort of Musicke; Winchester Cathedral Choir; Christ Church Cathedral Choir

Marc-Antoine Charpentier
Te Deum - score
Missa Assumpta est Maria - score

Felix Mendelssohn
The Hebrides Overture ("Fingal's Cave") - score
     recommended recordings: London Symphony/Abbado; Berlin Philharmonic/Karajan
Rondo Capriccioso - score
Variations Serieuses - score
     recommended recordings: Perahia; Sofronitsky; Pletnev

Arnold Schoenberg
Chamber Symphony No. 1 - score
     recommended recording: Chamber Orchestra of Europe/Holliger

John Coltrane
Ascension (full album, both editions)
Om (full album)
Kulu Se Mama (title piece only)
Selflessness (title piece only)
[all of the above were recorded in 1965, released on separate albums, and compiled and re-released in 1992 as The Major Works of John Coltrane]

Welcome to Week 64 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 64.

William Byrd
selections* from My Ladye Nevells Booke - score
     recommended recordings: Hogwood; Leonhardt

*My Ladye Nevells Grownde; Qui Passe; Ut re mi fa sol la; Will Yow Walke the Woods Soe Wylde; Have with Yow to Walsingame; My Lord Willoughby's Welcome Home; The Carman's Whistle

Jean-Philippe Rameau
Nouvelles suites de pieces de clavecin (comprises 2 suites, in A minor and G major) - score 
     recommended recordings: Fuller; Rousset

Felix Mendelssohn
Overture and incidental music from A Midsummer Night's Dream - score (overture) - score (incid. music)
      recommended recordings: Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment/Mackerras; Leipzi Gewandhaus Orchestra/Masur; many others

Roger Sessions
When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom'd - text - review

The Beatles
Non-album songs from 1969: Don't Let Me Down; The Ballad of John and Yoko; Little Brown Shoe; You Know My Name (Look Up the Number)
Abbey Road (1969 album)
Let It Be (1970 album; mostly recorded in 1969 before Abbey Road)

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)