Listening to The Works
Listening to The Works - the great music of the Western world! This is a 10-year project to study the masterpieces in all eras of classical, jazz, and rock.
Episodes
60 episodes
64: Will You Still Need Me?
Welcome to Week 64 of The Works, a 10-year project to listen to the Great Music of the Western World!In this episode, host Nate Brown reviews last week's pieces by Mozart, Rimsky-Korsakov, Lutoslawski, and the Beatles.The coming w...
63: Related Pieces
Welcome to Week 63 of The Works, a 10-year project to listen to the Great Music of the Western World!In this episode, host Nate Brown reviews last week's pieces by Taverner, Byrd, Franck, Shostakovich, and Armstrong (and Ellington). ...
62: Drop the Needle!
Welcome to Week 62 of The Works, a 10-year project to listen to the Great Music of the Western World!In this episode, host Nate Brown reviews last week's pieces by Mozart, Schubert, Ussachevsky and Luening, and Armstrong.The comin...
61: Brief Memories
Welcome to Week 61 of The Works, a 10-year project to listen to the Great Music of the Western World!In this episode, host Nate Brown reviews last week's pieces by Beethoven, Bizet, Ravel, and the Beatles.The coming week's pieces ...
60: What's Wrong with Symphonies?
Welcome to Week 60 of The Works, a 10-year project to listen to the Great Music of the Western World!In this episode, host Nate Brown reviews last week's pieces by Mozart, Grieg, Rihm, and the Beatles.The coming week's pieces are ...
59: Lots of Strings
Welcome to Week 59 of The Works, a 10-year project to listen to the Great Music of the Western World!In this episode, host Nate Brown reviews last week's pieces (mostly for strings) by Beethoven, Dvorak, Shapey, Rihm, and Armstrong.<...
58: Tours de Force
Welcome to Week 58 of The Works, a 10-year project to listen to the Great Music of the Western World!In this episode, host Nate Brown reviews last week's pieces and talks about the difficulty of selecting the essential masterworks of a j...
57: Song Form and Hand Crossing
Welcome to Week 57 of The Works, a 10-year project to listen to the Great Music of the Western World!In this episode, host Nate Brown offers analytical commentary on last week's pieces by Beethoven, Schubert, Scarlatti, Arnold, Finzi, an...
56: How Many Overtures Does It Take...?
Welcome to Week 56 of The Works, a 10-year project to listen to the Great Music of the Western World!In this episode, host Nate Brown reviews last week's pieces by Beethoven, Schubert, Mozart, Henze, and Armstrong, and previews the comin...
55: Hip-Hop Rap-Up
Welcome to Week 55 of The Works, a 10-year project to listen to the Great Music of the Western World!In this episode, host Nate Brown reviews last week's pieces and wraps up our time listening to the masterworks of hip-hop through 1992.<...
54: Gavottes Are Backwards
Welcome to Week 54 of The Works, a 10-year project to listen to the Great Music of the Western World!In this episode, host Nate Brown reviews last week's pieces and explains why gavottes feel backwards to him.The coming week's pie...
53: Year 1 Review
Welcome to Week 53 of The Works, a 10-year project to listen to the Great Music of the Western World!In this episode, host Nate Brown reviews last week's pieces and all of Year 1 in general.The coming week's pieces are found on
Week 52: Suites and Symphonies
Welcome to Week 52 of The Works, a 10-year project to listen to the Great Music of the Western World!In this episode, host Nate Brown reviews last week's pieces, including several "suites" of different kinds, and looks ahead to next week...
Week 51: Miles Davis Wrap-Up
Welcome to Week 51 of The Works, a 10-year project to listen to the Great Music of the Western World!In this episode, host Nate Brown reviews last week's pieces by Bach, Brahms, Steiner, Davies, and Davis.The coming week's pieces ...
Week 50: More Cowbell
Welcome to Week 50 of The Works, a 10-year project to listen to the Great Music of the Western World!In this episode, host Nate Brown reviews last week's pieces by Mozart, Weber, Puccini and Messiaen, and a couple of hip-hop albums.<...
Week 49: Clarinet (and Bass Clarinet)
Welcome to Week 49 of The Works, a 10-year project to listen to the Great Music of the Western World!In this episode, host Nate Brown reviews last week's pieces by Dufay, Liszt, Prokofiev, Shchedrin (or Bizet), and Miles Davis.The...
Week 48: More Carmen
Welcome to Week 48 of The Works, a 10-year project to listen to the Great Music of the Western World!In this episode, host Nate Brown reviews last week's pieces by Mozart, Bizet, Saint-Saens, Ives, and Miles Davis.The coming week'...
Week 47: Works Worthy of the Project
Welcome to Week 47 of The Works, a 10-year project to listen to the Great Music of the Western World!In this episode, host Nate Brown reviews last week's pieces and explains why some of them were not quite up to snuff, before previewing ...
Week 46: Composer Nationalities
Welcome to Week 46 of The Works, a 10-year project to listen to the Great Music of the Western World!In this episode, host Nate Brown reviews last week's pieces and provides a quick overview of the nationalities of the composers in the p...
Week 45: Hello John Cage
Welcome to Week 45 of The Works, a 10-year project to listen to the Great Music of the Western World!The coming week's pieces are found on this Spotif...
Week 44: Miles, Coltrane, and Chambers Part Ways
Welcome to Week 44 of The Works, a 10-year project to listen to the Great Music of the Western World!In this episode, host Nate Brown reviews last week's pieces by Beethoven, Berlioz, Satie, and Miles Davis.The coming week's piece...
Week 43: No Sleep Till Algiers?
Welcome to Week 43 of The Works, a 10-year project to listen to the Great Music of the Western World!The coming week's pieces are found on this Spotif...
Week 42: Concertos (Concerti)
Welcome to Week 42 of The Works, a 10-year project to listen to the Great Music of the Western World!In this episode, host Nate Brown reviews last week's pieces and geeks out a bit about the trombone.The coming week's pieces are f...
Week 41: The Only Trombone Concertos
Welcome to Week 41 of The Works, a 10-year project to listen to the Great Music of the Western World!In this episode, host Nate Brown reviews last week's pieces by Pergolesi, Faure, Bellini and Duckworth.The coming week's pieces a...