Welcome to Week 63 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. Here is the Spotify playlist for Week 63.
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Cosi fan tutte - score - libretto & synopsis
recommended audio recording: conducted by Solti
video recommendation: I will be watching one conducted by Harnoncourt.
Piano Concerto No. 22 - score
recommended recordings: Schiff with Camerata Salzburg; Zacharias with Chamber Orchestra of Lausanne
Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov
Symphony No. 2 “Antar” - score
recommended recordings: Rotterdam Philharmonic/Zinman; Pittsburgh Symphony/Maazel [neither of these seems to be available on Spotify]
Witold Lutoslawski
String Quartet - program notes
recommended recording: Arditti Quartet [this does not seem to be available on Spotify]
The Beatles
Selected non-album songs from 1968: Lady Madonna; The Inner Light; Hey Jude; Revolution
The Beatles (aka The White Album, 1968)
Selected songs from the Yellow Submarine album 1969): Only a Northern Song; All Together Now; Hey Bulldog; It's All Too Much