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
52 episodes
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...
Week 40: The Long and Short
Welcome to Week 40 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 looks ahead to this week's selections.The coming week's pieces ar...
Week 39: All Over the World
Welcome to Week 39 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 Victoria, Sibelius, Leoncavallo, Villa-Lobos, and the pioneers of hip-hop...
Week 38: Requiems (sort of)
Welcome to Week 38 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 what elements constitute a requiem mass.The coming week'...
Week 37: Fishing
Welcome to Week 37 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, gives a summary of the experimental rock artists listened to so far, and in...
Week 36: Music and Race?
Welcome to Week 36 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, looks ahead to next week, and discusses the racial context of some music.
Week 35: Electronic Pioneers
Welcome to Week 35 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 34: More Tears Coming
Welcome to Week 34 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 previews the week to come.The coming week's pieces are found on <...
Week 33: Recordings and Performances
Welcome to Week 33 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 discusses the issues with listening to recordings of pieces written for ...
Week 32: Eighteenth-Century Aftertouch
Welcome to Week 32 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 Dowland, Schubert, C.P.E. Bach, Villa-Lobos, and Monk.The coming w...