Welcome to Week 50 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 50.

Johann Sebastian Bach
Fantasia and Fugue in C minor, BWV 537 - score
Toccata, Adagio, and Fugue in C major, BWV 564 - score
Toccata and Fugue in D minor, BWV 565 - score
Fantasia in C minor, BWV 1121 - score
     recommended recordings: Weinberger; Hurford; Koopman; Biggs; Goode; Montero (bonus)

Johannes Brahms
Piano Sonata No. 2, Op. 2 - score
     recommended recordings: Vogt; Ax
Bonus: Scherzo, Op. 4 - score

Peter Maxwell Davies
Vesalii Icones
      recommended recording: Fires of London

Max Steiner
King Kong (film score, 1933)

Miles Davis
Get Up With It

Welcome to Week 48 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 48.

Rodion Shchedrin
Carmen Suite (After Bizet)
     recommended audio recording: Russian National Orchestra/Pletnev
     video: this video appears to be the original choreography

Guillaume DuFay
Selected Motets:
  Vasilissa ergo gaude - score
  *O sancte Sebastiane - score
  O gemma, lux et speculum - score
  Apostolo glorioso - score
  Rite majorem Jacobus - score
  *Ecclesie militantis - score
  Balsamus et munda cera - score
  Supremum est mortalibus - score
  *Nuper rosarum flores - score
  *Salve flos Tusce gentis - score
  Magnanime gentes laudes - score
  Fulgens iubar ecclesiae dei - score
  Moribus et generae
     recommended recordings: Huelgas Ensemble (all of the above); Hilliard Ensemble (* selections)

Franz Liszt
Tasso: Lamento e trionfo - score
      recommended recordings: Orchestre de Paris/Solti; Budapest Symphony/Joo
Les preludes - score
     recommended recordings: Philadelphia Orchestra/Muti; Berlin Philharmonic/Karajan

Sergei Prokofiev
String Quartet No. 1 - score

Miles Davis
In a Silent Way
Bitches Brew
A Tribute to Jack Johnson

Welcome to Week 47 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 47.

Georges Bizet
Carmen - score - libretto & synopsis
     recommended audio recording: conducted by Abbado
     video recommendations: conducted by Levine; Rosi film

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Piano Concerto No. 14 - score
     recommended recording: Bilson (fortepiano) with English Baroque/Gardiner

Camille Saint-Saens
Piano Quartet, Op. 41 - score

Charles Ives
Three Places in New England - score
     recommended recordings: Boston Symphony/Tilson Thomas; Cleveland Orchestra/Dohnanyi
Central Park in the Dark - score
     recommended recording: New York Philharmonic/Bernstein
The Unanswered Question - score
     recommended recordings: New York Philharmonic/Bernstein; Chicago Symphony/Tilson Thomas

Miles Davis
E.S.P.
Miles Smiles
Nefertiti

Welcome to Week 45 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/translations where available. Here is the Spotify playlist for Week 45.

Ludwig van Beethoven
String Quartet No. 9 (Op. 59 No. 3) - score
     recommended recordings: Tokyo Quartet; Guarneri Quartet; The Lindsays

Franz Peter Schubert
Selected Lieder:
     Suleika, D. 720 - score - text and translation
     An die Leier, D. 737 - score - text and translation
     Im Haine, D. 738 - score - text and translation
     Am See, D. 746 - score - text and translation
     Die Liebe hat gelogen, D. 751 - score - text and translation
     Nachtviolen, D. 752 - score - text and translation
     Heliopolis II, D. 754 - score - text and translation
     Der Musensohn, D. 764 - score - text and translation
     Wandrers Nachtlied II, D. 768 - score - text and translation
     Der Zwerg, D. 771 - score - text and translation
     Wehmut, D. 772 - score - text and translation
     Auf dem Wasser zu singen, D. 774 - score - text and translation
     Dass sie hier gewesen, D. 775 - score - text and translation
     Du bist die Ruh, D. 776 - score - text and translation
     Lachen und Weinen, D. 777 - score - text and translation
     Viola, D. 786 - score - text and translation
(various recordings are recommended)

Muzio Clementi
Piano Sonata, Op. 24 No. 2 (sometimes called Op. 41 No. 2 or Op. 47 No. 2) - score
Piano Sonata, Op. 25 No. 5 (sometimes called Op. 26 No. 2) - score
Piano Sonata, Op. 33 No. 3 - score
     recommended recordings: Demidenko; Horowitz

John Cage
Imaginary Landscape No. 4
Williams Mix
Fontana Mix
Rozart Mix

Miles Davis
Selected tracks from The Complete Live at the Plugged Nickel 1965 (starting with the 6 tracks released as Highlights from the Plugged Nickel)

Welcome to Week 43 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 43.

Ludwig van Beethoven
String Quartet No. 7 (Op. 59 No. 1) - score
     recommended recordings: Lindsay Quartet; Guarneri Quartet

Hector Berlioz
Requiem (Grande messe des morts) - score
     recommended recordings: conducted by Ozawa; Davis; Shaw; Munch

Erik Satie
Cinema - score
      This piece is the score to a silent film (available here with no score) entitled Entr'Acte because it was to be shown between the acts of Satie's ballet Relache.

Steve Reich
Piano Phase
Pendulum Music - score

Miles Davis
Two live sets recorded in Stockholm on March 22, 1960, later released on several compilations.

Welcome to Week 41 of The Works! Start with this week's podcast episode.

The pieces for this week are listed below, along with links to scores and the libretto of the oratorio. Here is the Spotify playlist for Week 41.

George Frideric Handel
Deborah - score - libretto

Robert Schumann
Papillons - score
Waldszenen - score

Ellen Taaffe Zwilich
Concerto Grosso 1985
[Tenor] Trombone Concerto
Bass Trombone Concerto - recordings of 1st - 2nd - 3rd movements (not on Spotify)

Miles Davis
Kind of Blue
Sketches of Spain (with arranger Gil Evans)

Welcome to Week 39 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 39.

Josquin Desprez
[His last name is sometimes spelled “Despres” or similar, but he is almost always known (and alphabetized) by his first name]
Missa Pange Lingua - score
Missa de Beata Virgine - score

Edvard Grieg
Lyric Pieces:
     Book 1 (Op. 12) - score
     Book 2 (Op. 38) - score
     Book 3 (Op. 43) - score
     Book 4 (Op. 47) - score

Leonard Bernstein
Symphony No. 2, “The Age of Anxiety”

Miles Davis
Miles Ahead (with arranger Gil Evans)
Milestones
Porgy and Bess (with arranger Gil Evans)

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 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 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)