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 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 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.