Welcome to Week 57 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 57.

Hector Berlioz
Les Troyens - score - libretto and synopsis
     recommended audio recording: Covent Garden conducted by Davis with Vickers, Veasey, Lindholm
     video recommendation: Met conducted by Levine with Troyanos, Norman, Domingo

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Piano Concerto No. 19 - score
     recommended recordings: Perahia with English Chamber Orchestra; Bilson with English Baroque/Gardiner

Franz Liszt
Piano Sonata in B minor - score
      recommended recordings: Arrau; Brendel; Richter

Olivier Messiaen
Des Canyons aux Etoiles
      recommended recordings: Loriod with Ensemble Ars Nova/Constant; Hardink with Utah Symphony/Fischer

Louis Armstrong and His Hot Seven (or his Hot Five; or his Orchestra)
Selected 78 rpm singles from 1927-28

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.