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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 29: Happy Birthday, Morton Feldman 

Welcome to Week 29 of The Works! Start with this week's podcast episode. I am posting this on Jan. 11, and the 12th is the 100th anniversary of Feldman's birth, so let's commemorate that by listening to either The King of Denmark or Rothko Chapel.

The pieces for this week are listed below, along with links to scores and other helpful information. Here is the Spotify playlist for Week 29.

Anonymous music from the Medieval era
Lauda sion - score
Stabat mater - score
Dies irae - score
Pange lingua gloriosi corporis mysterium - score
Salve virgo/Ave gloriosa Mater/Domino
Pucelete/Je languis/Domino - score
Sumer is icumen in - score

Petrus de Cruce
Aucuns vont souvent/Amor qui cor/Kyrie - score

Gustav Mahler
Adagio movement from unfinished Symphony No. 10 - score
     recommended recordings: Rattle/Bournemouth SInf.; Bernstein/NY Philharmonic

Morton Feldman
Projection I - look at the score here for a sense of how Feldman's indeterminate pieces of this era work.
Projection II
Projection III
Projection IV
Projection V
The King of Denmark - look at this video for more understanding of how these grid scores work. Also, look for any video performance on YouTube - this is a good piece to see visually because it's for a single percussionist with a lot of instruments.
Rothko Chapel
      recommended recording: Brett/UC-Berkeley choirs

Richard Wagner
Tannhauser - score - libretto and synopsis
     recommended recording: conducted by Solti
     recommended video: conducted by Levine
If you don't listen to the whole opera, at least listen to the Overture and Venusberg music, conducted by Mehta.

The Velvet Underground
The Velvet Underground and Nico
White Light/White Heat
The Velvet Underground