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