Nate Brown, Composer

Welcome to Week 72 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 72.

Sergei Prokofiev
The Love for Three Oranges - score - libretto & synopsis (in German)
     recommended audio recording: conducted by Gergiev
     video: I'm watching a video of the Lyon Opera, conducted by Nagano
Orchestral suite from The Love for Three Oranges - score
     recommended recording: London Smphony/Dorati
Lieutenant Kijé (orchestral suite from the film score) - score [not public domain in USA]
     recommended recording: Chicago Symphony/Abbado

Johann Sebastian Bach
Toccata & Fugue, BWV 538 - score
     recommended recordings: Weinberger; Vuola
Fantasia & Fugue ("Great"), BWV 542 - score
     recommended recordings: Vuola; Murray; Koopman
Passacaglia & Fugue, BWV 582 - score
     recommended recordings: Hurford; Richter; Murray

Carl Maria von Weber
Symphony No. 1 - score
      recommended recordings: Academy of St. Martin in the Fields/Marriner; Bavarian Radio Symphony/Sawallisch

Peter Maxwell Davies
Miss Donnithorne's Maggot - notes
     recommended recording: Mary Thomas with Fires of London/Davies

The Animals
Selected songs, 1964-68

Here is a list of all 650+ pieces for solo piano (or harpsichord for the earliest composers), titled “Sonata” or something similar, that will be part of The Works project. 

The list is arranged in roughly chronological order by composer, based on the earliest piece in the list by each composer. In some cases, where the sonatas have a standardized numbering, just the numbers are shown. In other cases, catalog numbers are used.

Baroque/Classical Eras
Domenico Scarlatti: all 555 sonatas
C.P.E. Bach: Prussian Sonatas Nos. 1-2 (H. 24-25); Wurttemburg Sonata No. 1 (H. 30); Sonata (H. 75)
Antonio Soler: selected sonatas to be determined
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Nos. 1, 5, 8, 10-15, 17
Johann Nepomuk Hummel: selected sonatas to be determined
Jan Ladislav Dussek: selected sonatas to be determined, including Op. 61 and Op. 64
Franz Joseph Haydn: Hob. XVI: 37, 40, 49, 52
Muzio Clementi: Op. 24 No. 2; Op. 25 No. 5; Op. 33 No. 3
John Field: Sonata in B
Ludwig van Beethoven: Nos. 1-32

Romantic Era
Carl Maria von Weber: Nos. 1-4
Franz Peter Schubert: D. 664, 850, 894, 958, 959, 960
Robert Schumann: Nos. 1-2
Frederic Chopin: Nos. 2-3
Johannes Brahms: Nos. 1-3
Franz Liszt: Sonata in B Minor

Modern Era
Maurice Ravel: Sonatine
Leos Janacek: Sonata October 1, 1905 (From the Street)
Alexander Scriabin: Nos. 5-9
Charles Ives: Nos. 1-2
Ferrucio Busoni: Sonatina No. 2 (and possibly others)
Sergei Rachmaninoff: No. 2
Bela Bartok: Sz. 80
Sergei Prokofiev: Nos. 6-8
Luigi Dallapiccola: Sonatina canonica after Paganini
Pierre Boulez: Nos. 1-3
Elliott Carter: Piano Sonata
Grazyna Bacewicz: Nos. 1-2
Samuel Barber: Piano Sonata
Jean Barraque: Piano Sonata
Roger Sessions: No. 3
Michael Tippett: No. 3

Welcome to Week 71 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 71.

Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Selected Songs:
My Genius, My Angel, My Friend - score - text and translation
from 6 Romances, Op. 6 - score
     2. Not a Word, O My Friend - text and translation
     5. Why? - text and translation
     6. None but the Lonely Heart - text and translation
I Should Like in a Single Word - score - text and translation
from 6 Romances, Op. 28 - score
     3. Why Did I Dream of You? - text and translation
     6. The Frightening Moment - text and translation
from 6 Romances, Op. 38 - score
     1. Don Juan's Serenade - text and translation
     2. It Was in the Early Spring - text and translation
     3, Amid the Din of the Ball - text and translation
from 6 Romances, Op. 63 - score
     2. I Opened the Window - text and translation
     4. First Meeting - text and translation
     5. The Fires in the Room Were Already Out - text (not available in English)
from 6 Romances, Op. 73 - score
     1. We Sat Together - text and translation
     4. The Sun Has Slipped from Sight - text and translation
     6. Again, As Before, Alone - text and translation
recommended recordings: Hvorostovsky; Larin; Kazarnovskaya; Borodina

Franz Joseph Haydn
Piano Sonata, Hob. XVI:37 - score
Piano Sonata, Hob. XVI:40 - score
Piano Sonata, Hob. XVI:49 - score
Piano Sonata, Hob. XVI:52 - score
     recommended recordings: Brendel; Bilson; Odiaga; Schiff

Grazyna Bacewicz
Piano Sonata No. 1
Piano Sonata No. 2 - score [not public domain in all countries]
     recommended recordings: Jablonski; Zimerman

Manuel de Falla
The Three-Cornered Hat - score - text and translation for the vocal part
     recommended recordings: Orchestre de la Suisse Romande/Ansermet; Philharmonia Orchestra/Burgos

John Coltrane
Meditations (recorded 1965)
Interstellar Space (recorded 1967)

Welcome to Week 70 of The Works! Start with this week's podcast episode.

The pieces for this week are listed below, along with links to scores, texts, and other helpful information. Here is the Spotify playlist for Week 70.

William Mundy
O Lord, the Maker of All Thing - score and text

Thomas Weelkes
Alleluia, I Heard a Voice - score and text
O How Amiable Are Thy Dwellings - score and text
O, Jonathan, Woe Is Me for Thee - score and text
All People Clap Your Hands - score and text
O Happy He Whom Thou Protect'st
Lord, to Thee I Make My Moan - score and text
All Laud and Praise
Laboravi in gemitu meo - score and text
O Lord, Arise - score and text
Give Ear, O Lord
If King Manasses
O Lord, Grant the King a Long Life - score and text
Give the King Thy Judgements
Gloria in Excelsis Deo - score and text
When David Heard - score and text
Hosanna to the Son of David - score and text
     recommended recordings: Consort of Musicke; Winchester Cathedral Choir; Christ Church Cathedral Choir

Marc-Antoine Charpentier
Te Deum - score
Missa Assumpta est Maria - score

Felix Mendelssohn
The Hebrides Overture ("Fingal's Cave") - score
     recommended recordings: London Symphony/Abbado; Berlin Philharmonic/Karajan
Rondo Capriccioso - score
Variations Serieuses - score
     recommended recordings: Perahia; Sofronitsky; Pletnev

Arnold Schoenberg
Chamber Symphony No. 1 - score
     recommended recording: Chamber Orchestra of Europe/Holliger

John Coltrane
Ascension (full album, both editions)
Om (full album)
Kulu Se Mama (title piece only)
Selflessness (title piece only)
[all of the above were recorded in 1965, released on separate albums, and compiled and re-released in 1992 as The Major Works of John Coltrane]

Welcome to Week 69 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 69.

Henry Purcell
Dido and Aeneas - score - libretto and synopsis
     recommended audio recording: conducted by Leppard, starring Norman; conducted by Haim starring Graham
     video recommendation: I'm watching a film version conducted by Hickox and starring Ewing.

William Byrd
Selected Keyboard Works:
     Pavan & Galliard, BK29
     Pavan & Galliard, BK30
     Pavan & Galliard, BK31
     Pavan & Galliard “Kinbrugh Good”, BK32
     Pavan, BK74
     Pavan, BK17
     Pavan & Galliard “The Passing Measures”, BK2
[scores for all of the above can be found in this edition (all except BK74 are in Volume 1)- BK numbers refer to the order they are presented there]
     recommended recording: Moroney

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Piano Concerto No. 25 - score
     recommended recordings: Schiff with Camerata Salzburg/Vegh; Fleisher with Cleveland Orchestra/Szell

Gabriel Faure
Piano Quartet No. 2 - score
     recommended recordings: Collard et al; Ax/Stern/Laredo/Ma

George Benjamin
Ringed by the Flat Horizon - program notes and score
Antara - program notes and score

John Coltrane
John Coltrane and Johnny Hartman (1963)
A Love Supreme (1965)

Welcome to Week 68 of The Works! Start with this week's podcast episode.

The pieces for this week are listed below, along with links to scores, opera synopsis, song texts, and other helpful information. Here is the Spotify playlist for Week 68.

Dmitri Shostakovich
Lady Macbeth of the Mtsensk District - score [not public domain in some countries] - synopsis
     recommended audio recording: conducted by Rostropovich
     video recommendation: unknown - maybe on YouTube

Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina
Missa “Ut re mi fa so la” [Hexachord Mass] - score
     recommended recording: Montreal Studio of Ancient Music

Thomas Weelkes
selected madrigals:
     As Vesta was from Latmos hill descending - score - text
     Like two proud armies - score - text
     Death hath deprived me - score - text
     Cease sorrows now - score - text
     Hark all ye lovely saints - score - text
     What have the gods - score
     To shorten winter's sadness - score - text
     O care, thou wilt despatch me - score - text
     Thule, the period of cosmography - score - text
recommended recordings: I Fagiolini; Consort of Musicke; Deller Consort

Gabriel Faure
Piano Quartet No. 1 - score
      recommended recordings: Collard et al; Domus; Eymar et al

Michael Tippett
Piano Sonata No. 3
     recommended recording: Crossley

Lennon/McCartney
Selected songs recorded by others:
     The Applejacks: Like Dreamers Do
     Cilla Black: Love of the Loved
     Billy J. Kramer & The Dakotas: I'll Be On My Way
     The Remo Four: Tip of My Tongue
     Peter and Gordon: A World Without Love
See also this compilation

Various Artists
Selected early British rock & roll and British Invasion songs:
     Cliff Richards & the Drifters: Move It
     Johnny Kidd & the Pirates: Shakin' All Over
     Freddie & The Dreamers: I'm Telling You Now
     Manfred Mann: Do Wah Diddy Diddy
     Herman's Hermits: I'm Into Something Good; Mrs. Brown, You've Got a Lovely Daughter
     Petula Clark: Downtown
     Wayne Fontana & The Mindbenders: The Game of Love

The Dave Clark Five
Selected songs

Welcome to Week 67 of The Works! Start with this week's podcast episode, which was 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 from 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)
Symphony in E minor, "Gaelic" - 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 66 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 66.

Christopher Tye
The Western Wind Mass - score
     recommended recordings: Choir of New College, Oxford; Choir of King's College, Cambridge; Tallis Scholars [you can get to this album from the week 62 playlist]

Edvard Grieg
Piano Concerto - score
     recommended recordings: Kovacevich with BBC Symphony; Perahia with Bavarian Radio Symphony [both conducted by Sir Colin Davis]; many others

Steve Reich
Different Trains
      recommended recordings: Kronos Quartet; London Steve Reich Ensemble

Leonard Bernstein
On the Waterfront (1954 film score) - also symphonic suite from the film score

John Coltrane
My Favorite Things (1961 album; recorded in 1960)
Live at the Village Vanguard (1962 album; recorded in 1961)

Welcome to Week 65 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 65.

Claudio Monteverdi
Orfeo - score - libretto and synopsis
     recommended audio recording: Concerto Vocale conducted by Rene Jacobs
     video recommendation: Nederlandse Opera conducted by Stephen Stubbs

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Piano Concerto No. 23 - score
     recommended recordings: Bilson (fortepiano) with English Baroque/Gardiner; Curzon with London Symphony/Kertesz

Robert Schumann
Cello Concerto - score
      recommended recordings: Ma; Casals; Du Pre; Isserlis

Lukas Foss
Renaissance Concerto

Tan Dun
On Taoism [recorded by the BBC Scottish Symphony but not available on Spotify]

John Coltrane
Blue Train (1957 album)
Giant Steps (1960 album)

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)