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

Welcome to Week 38 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 38.

Tomas Luis de Victoria
Officium Defunctorum - score with text and translation
     recommended recording: Tallis Scholars

Jean Sibelius
Lemminkainen Suite - scores
     recommended recordings: Iceland Symphony/Sakari; Gothenburg Symphony/Jarvi; Lahti Symphony/Vanska

Heitor Villa-Lobos
Choros No. 6 - score
Bachianas Brasileiras No. 5 - score - text and translation
     recommended recording: Gomez/Pleeth Cello Octet
     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.

Ruggero Leoncavallo
Pagliacci - score - libretto and synopsis
     recommended audio recording: conducted by Cellini
     video recommendation: Zefirelli film, conducted by Pretre

Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five
The Message

Run-DMC
Run-DMC
Raising Hell

Welcome to Week 35 of The Works! 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 35.

Domenico Scarlatti
Keyboard Sonatas: K. 82, 266, 284, 507, 214, 404, 124, 536, 494, 113, 26, 548, 37 - scores
     recommended recordings: Benjamin Frith (piano); Scott Ross (harpsichord)

Claude Debussy
String Quartet - score
     recommended recordings: Cleveland Quartet; Emerson Quartet

Heitor Villa-Lobos
Bachianas Brasileiras No. 1 - score
      recommended recording: cellos of the Nashville Symphony
Guitar Concerto - score
     recommended recording: Julian Bream/London Symphony
     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.

Pierre Schaeffer
Etude aux chemins de fer
Symphonie pour un homme seule (with Pierre Henry)

Otto Luening
Fantasy in Space
Low Speed

Vladimir Ussachevsky
Sonic Contours
Reverberation (with Luening)
Transposition (with Luening)

Miles Davis
6 tracks recorded March 6, 1954
originally released as 10” LP, Miles Davis Volume 3; later included in the Miles Davis Volumes 1 & 2 compilations (1956 on 12” LPs)

Bags' Groove – 12” LP released in 1957 from recording sessions on June 29 and December 24, 1954

4 tracks recorded July 9, 1955
originally released as 12” LP Blue Moods; later included on double-LP Collectors' Items (1973)

'Round About Midnight – 12” LP released in 1957 from recording sessions on October 26, 1955, June 5 and September 10, 1956

Welcome to Week 31 of The Works! Start with this week's podcast episode.

The pieces for this week are listed below, along with links to scores and texts. Here is the Spotify playlist for Week 31.

Franz Peter Schubert
String Quartet No. 14, “Death and the Maiden” - score

Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach
Rondo in C minor, H 283 (Wq 59:4) - score
Sonata in F major (Prussian Sonata No. 1), H 24 (Wq 48:1) - score
Sonata in B-flat major (Prussian Sonata No. 2), H 25 (Wq 48:2) - score
Rondo in A major, H 276 (Wq 58:1) - score
Sonata in F minor, H 75 (Wq 63:6) - score
Sonata in A minor (Wurttemberg Sonata No. 1), H 30 (Wq 49:1) - score
*The Hogwood recording of H 75 is on a clavichord - see this video about how this instrument works; it's discussed in podcast episode 32.

John Dowland
First Booke of Songes or Ayres - scores - texts

Heitor Villa-Lobos
Bachianas Brasileiras No. 2 - score
Bachianas Brasileiras No. 4 - 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.

Thelonious Monk
Monk Alone: The Complete Columbia Recordings (selections)
Selections from other performers' recordings of some of Monk's compositions