Welcome to Week 67 of The Works! This week's podcast episode will be delayed due to technical problems.

The pieces for this week are listed below, along with links to scores and other helpful information. Here is the Spotify playlist for Week 67.

William Byrd
selections from the Fitzwilliam Virginal Book
     Fantasia, BK25 [this may not be in the FVB]
     Pavan & Galliard, BK60
     Fantasia, BK62
     The Queen's Alman, BK10
     Pavan & Galliard, BK71
     The Bells, BK38
     All in a Garden Green, BK56
     La Volta, BK91
     Pavan & Galliard, BK4
[scores for all of the above can be found in volume one (1-45) or two (46 and up) of this edition - BK numbers refer to the order they are presented in this collection]
     recommended recording: Dutschler

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Piano Concerto No. 24 - score
     recommended recordings: Uchida with English Chamber Orchestra/Tate; Curzon with London Symphony Orchestra/Krips

Franz Peter Schubert
Selected Lieder:
     Am Fenster, D. 878 - score - text and translation
     Fischerweise, D. 881 - score - text and translation
     Im Fruhling, D. 882 - score - text and translation
     Standchen, D. 889 - score - text and translation
     An Sylvia, D. 891 - score - text and translation
     Alinde, D. 904 - score - text and translation
     An die Laute, D. 905 - score - text and translation
     Das Lied im Grunen, D. 917 - score - text and translation
     Standchen, D. 920 - score - text and translation
     Der Winterabend, D. 938 - score - text and translation
     Die Sterne, D. 939 - score - text and translation
     Der Hirt auf dem Felsen, D. 965 - score - text and translation
(various recordings are recommended)

Amy Marcy Cheney Beach (Mrs. H.H.A. Beach)
Gaelic Symphony - score
     recommended recordings: Nashville Symphony/Schermerhorn; Detroit Symphony/Jarvi

John Coltrane
Africa/Brass (original 1961 album)
selections from albums released 1962-64, later compiled on The Gentle Side of John Coltrane

Welcome to Week 64 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 64.

William Byrd
selections* from My Ladye Nevells Booke - score
     recommended recordings: Hogwood; Leonhardt

*My Ladye Nevells Grownde; Qui Passe; Ut re mi fa sol la; Will Yow Walke the Woods Soe Wylde; Have with Yow to Walsingame; My Lord Willoughby's Welcome Home; The Carman's Whistle

Jean-Philippe Rameau
Nouvelles suites de pieces de clavecin (comprises 2 suites, in A minor and G major) - score 
     recommended recordings: Fuller; Rousset

Felix Mendelssohn
Overture and incidental music from A Midsummer Night's Dream - score (overture) - score (incid. music)
      recommended recordings: Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment/Mackerras; Leipzi Gewandhaus Orchestra/Masur; many others

Roger Sessions
When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom'd - text - review

The Beatles
Non-album songs from 1969: Don't Let Me Down; The Ballad of John and Yoko; Little Brown Shoe; You Know My Name (Look Up the Number)
Abbey Road (1969 album)
Let It Be (1970 album; mostly recorded in 1969 before Abbey Road)

Welcome to Week 62 of The Works! Start with this week's podcast episode.

The pieces for this week are listed below, along with links to scores where available. Here is the Spotify playlist for Week 62.

William Byrd
Selected Keyboard Works:
     Pavan & Galliard, BK16
     Pavan & Galliard, BK23
     Ground, BK43
     Pavan & Galliard, BK14
     Pavan & Galliards “The Earle of Salisbury”, BK15 - score
     Pavan & Galliard “Sir William Petre”, BK3 - score
     Galliard “Mistress Mary Brownlo”, BK34 (T460) - score
[scores for all of the above can be found in volume one of this edition - BK numbers refer to the order they are presented in this collection]
     recommended recordings: Leonhardt; Moroney

John Taverner
Missa Gloria tibi Trinitas - score
     recommended recording: The Sixteen
Western Wind Mass - score
     recommended recording: Tallis Scholars

Cesar Franck
String Quartet - score

Dmitri Shostakovich
Cello Concerto No. 1
     recommended recording: Rostropovich with Philadelphia Orchestra

Louis Armstrong
Louis Armstrong Plays W.C. Handy (1954 album)
“What a Wonderful World” (1967 single)

Louis Armstrong and Duke Ellington
The Great Summit (originally issued as two albums: Together for the First Time (1961) and The Great Reunion (1963), both from the same recording sessions in 1961)

Welcome to Week 46 of The Works! Start with this week's podcast episode, which includes a quick overview of the nationalities of the composers in the project.

The pieces for this week are listed below, along with links to scores where available. Here is the Spotify playlist for Week 46.

William Byrd
The Great Service - score
     recommended recordings: Tallis Scholars; Choir of King's College, Cambridge

Niccolo Paganini
Le Streghe - score
Moto perpetuo - score

Bela Bartok
Music for Strings, Percussion, and Celesta - score
      recommended recordings: Chicago Symphony/Reiner; Chicago Symphony/Solti

Malcolm Arnold
The Bridge on the River Kwai (film score)

N.W.A.
Straight Outta Compton

Ice Cube
AmeriKKKa's Most Wanted