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.
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 are found on this Spotify playlist.
Show notes are at www.natebrownmusic.com
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 found on this Spotify playlist.
Show notes are at www.natebrownmusic.com
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.
The coming week's pieces are found on this Spotify playlist.
Show notes are at www.natebrownmusic.com
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 jazz artist before the LP era.
The coming week's pieces are found on this Spotify playlist.
Show notes are at www.natebrownmusic.com
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, and the Beatles.
The coming week's pieces are found on this Spotify playlist.
Show notes are at www.natebrownmusic.com
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 coming week's pieces by Beethoven (again), Schubert (again), Scarlatti, Finzi, Arnold, Lennon, McCartney, and maybe Harrison.
The coming week's pieces are found on this Spotify playlist.
Show notes are at www.natebrownmusic.com
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.
The coming week's pieces are found on this Spotify playlist.
Show notes are at www.natebrownmusic.com
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 pieces are found on this Spotify playlist.
Show notes are at www.natebrownmusic.com
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 this Spotify playlist.
Show notes are at www.natebrownmusic.com
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, including several symphonies.
The coming week's pieces are found on this Spotify playlist.
Show notes are at www.natebrownmusic.com
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 are found on this Spotify playlist.
Show notes are at www.natebrownmusic.com
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.
The coming week's pieces are found on this Spotify playlist.
Show notes are at www.natebrownmusic.com
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 coming week's pieces are found on this Spotify playlist.
Show notes are at www.natebrownmusic.com
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's pieces are found on this Spotify playlist.
Show notes are at www.natebrownmusic.com
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 the pieces coming up in week 47.
The coming week's pieces are found on this Spotify playlist.
Show notes are at www.natebrownmusic.com
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 project.
The coming week's pieces are found on this Spotify playlist.
Show notes are at www.natebrownmusic.com
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 Spotify playlist.
Show notes are at www.natebrownmusic.com
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 pieces are found on this Spotify playlist.
Show notes are at www.natebrownmusic.com
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 Spotify playlist.
Show notes are at www.natebrownmusic.com
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 found on this Spotify playlist.
Show notes are at www.natebrownmusic.com
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 are found on this Spotify playlist.
Show notes are at www.natebrownmusic.com
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 are found on this Spotify playlist.
Show notes are at www.natebrownmusic.com
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.
The coming week's pieces are found on this Spotify playlist.
Show notes are at www.natebrownmusic.com
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's pieces are found on this Spotify playlist.
Show notes are at www.natebrownmusic.com
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 introduces the pieces for week 37.
The coming week's pieces are found on this Spotify playlist.
Show notes are at www.natebrownmusic.com
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.
The coming week's pieces are found on this Spotify playlist.
Show notes are at www.natebrownmusic.com
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 Spotify playlist.
Show notes are at www.natebrownmusic.com
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 this Spotify playlist.
Show notes are at www.natebrownmusic.com
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 live performance.
The coming week's pieces are found on this Spotify playlist.
Show notes are at www.natebrownmusic.com
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 week's pieces are found on this Spotify playlist.
Show notes are at www.natebrownmusic.com
Week 31: Death and the Maiden
Welcome to Week 31 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 Glass, Schubert, Scarlatti and Monk.
The coming week's pieces are found on this Spotify playlist.
Show notes are at www.natebrownmusic.com
Week 30: A Lot of Short Pieces
Welcome to Week 30 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 Mahler, Feldman, Wagner and the Velvet Underground, and previews the playlist for the coming week.
The coming week's pieces are found on this Spotify playlist.
Show notes are at www.natebrownmusic.com
Week 29: Happy Birthday, Morton Feldman
Welcome to Week 29 of The Works, a 10-year project to listen to the Great Music of the Western World!
In this episode, host Nate Brown reviews the pieces from the last 3 weeks of the project.
The coming week's pieces are found on this Spotify playlist.
Show notes are at www.natebrownmusic.com
Week 26: The Podcast Is Back!
Welcome to Week 26 of The Works, a 10-year project to listen to the Great Music of the Western World!
In this episode, host Nate Brown reviews the pieces from the last 3 weeks.
The coming week's pieces are found on this Spotify playlist.
Show notes are at www.natebrownmusic.com
Week 23: Monophony and Mahler (and Mothers)
Welcome to Week 23 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 Mahler, Telemann, Zappa, Hindemith, and anonymous composers of Gregorian chant.
The coming week's pieces are found on this Spotify playlist.
Show notes are at www.natebrownmusic.com
Week 22: Where Jazz and Classical Meet
Welcome to Week 22 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 Tchaikovsky, Mozart, Chopin, Schuller, and Ellington.
The coming week's pieces are found on this Spotify playlist.
Show notes are at www.natebrownmusic.com
Week 21: What is a Monodrama?
Welcome to Week 21 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, Schoenberg, Satie, and Tim Buckley.
The coming week's pieces are found on this Spotify playlist.
Show notes are at www.natebrownmusic.com
Week 20: That's a Wrap on Boulez
It's Week 20 of The Works, a project to listen to the Great Music of the Western World in 10 years.
The playlist for the coming week is here on Spotify.
Show notes are at natebrownmusic.com
Week 19: Stravinsky At Last!
It's Week 19 of The Works, a 10-year project to listen to the Great Works of Western Music.
Find this week's playlist here.
Find show notes at natebrownmusic.com.
Week 18: O King, The Waltz King, and The King
Week 18 of The Works, a project to listen to the great works of Western music in 10 years.
Show notes at natebrownmusic.com
Week 18 playlist here on Spotify
