Explore every episode of the podcast Listening to The Works
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| 67: Sorry It's Late | 09 Oct 2026 | 00:18:40 | |
Welcome to Week 67 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 Bernstein, Tye, Grieg, Reich, and Coltrane. The coming week's pieces are found on this Spotify playlist. Show notes are at www.natebrownmusic.com | |||
| 66: A Major A Minor Concerto | 29 Sep 2026 | 00:30:39 | |
Welcome to Week 66 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 Monteverdi, Mozart, Schumann, Foss, Tan Dun, and Coltrane. The coming week's pieces are found on this Spotify playlist. Show notes are at www.natebrownmusic.com | |||
| 65: Rock and Renaissance | 22 Sep 2026 | 00:45:58 | |
Welcome to Week 65 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 Byrd, Rameau, Mendelssohn, Sessions and the Beatles, and previews the music for the coming week. The coming week's pieces are found on this Spotify playlist. Show notes are at www.natebrownmusic.com | |||
| 64: Will You Still Need Me? | 14 Sep 2026 | 00:29:48 | |
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 week's pieces are found on this Spotify playlist. Show notes are at www.natebrownmusic.com | |||
| 63: Related Pieces | 08 Sep 2026 | 00:14:35 | |
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). The coming week's pieces are found on this Spotify playlist. Show notes are at www.natebrownmusic.com | |||
| 62: Drop the Needle! | 03 Sep 2026 | 00:15:16 | |
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 coming week's pieces are found on this Spotify playlist. Show notes are at www.natebrownmusic.com | |||
| 61: Brief Memories | 31 Aug 2026 | 00:11:29 | |
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? | 31 Aug 2026 | 00:14:38 | |
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 | 31 Aug 2026 | 00:11:51 | |
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 | 03 Aug 2026 | 00:27:16 | |
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 | 27 Jul 2026 | 00:25:34 | |
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...? | 21 Jul 2026 | 00:18:47 | |
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 | 14 Jul 2026 | 00:23:21 | |
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 | 07 Jul 2026 | 00:21:04 | |
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 | 29 Jun 2026 | 00:49:05 | |
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 | 22 Jun 2026 | 00:27:09 | |
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 | 15 Jun 2026 | 00:22:10 | |
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 | 09 Jun 2026 | 00:18:08 | |
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) | 01 Jun 2026 | 00:18:56 | |
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 | 26 May 2026 | 00:20:44 | |
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 | 18 May 2026 | 00:26:15 | |
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 | 12 May 2026 | 00:30:31 | |
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 | 05 May 2026 | 00:26:48 | |
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 | 27 Apr 2026 | 00:19:41 | |
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? | 21 Apr 2026 | 00:19:41 | |
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) | 14 Apr 2026 | 00:31:49 | |
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 | 07 Apr 2026 | 00:11:13 | |
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 | 31 Mar 2026 | 00:17:06 | |
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 | 24 Mar 2026 | 00:17:34 | |
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) | 18 Mar 2026 | 00:22:07 | |
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 | 10 Mar 2026 | 00:22:45 | |
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? | 05 Mar 2026 | 00:24:35 | |
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 | 26 Feb 2026 | 00:13:20 | |
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 | 19 Feb 2026 | 00:11:39 | |
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 | 11 Feb 2026 | 00:24:35 | |
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 | 05 Feb 2026 | 00:18:41 | |
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 | 28 Jan 2026 | 00:17:21 | |
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 | 21 Jan 2026 | 00:33:43 | |
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 | 15 Jan 2026 | 00:43:21 | |
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! | 24 Dec 2025 | 00:29:16 | |
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) | 03 Dec 2025 | 00:17:01 | |
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 | 25 Nov 2025 | 00:23:52 | |
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? | 18 Nov 2025 | 00:31:08 | |
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 | 10 Nov 2025 | 00:17:39 | |
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! | 06 Nov 2025 | 00:15:01 | |
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 | 28 Oct 2025 | 00:29:15 | |
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 | |||
| Week 17: Serialism and Dance Music | 21 Oct 2025 | 00:27:39 | |
Welcome to Week 17 of The Works, a 10-year project to listen to the great music of Western civilization! This week's Spotify playlist is here Show notes are at www.natebrownmusic.com | |||
| Week 16: Variations and Themes | 14 Oct 2025 | 00:11:09 | |
It's Week 16 of The Works, Nate Brown's 10-year project to listen to the Great Music of the Western World! This week's playlist is here on Spotify but also includes Duke Ellington's Fargo ND 1940 concert, which is not available there. A link is on the show notes page, which can be found at www.natebrownmusic.com | |||
| Week 15: Norwegian Melodies and Hebrew Tragedies | 09 Oct 2025 | 00:17:25 | |
It's Week 15 of The Works, Nate Brown's project to listen to the Great Music of the Western World. The Spotify playlist for this week is here. Show notes are at www.natebrownmusic.com | |||
| Week 14: No Clever Title | 02 Oct 2025 | 00:14:27 | |
It's Week 14 of The Works, Nate Brown's 10-year project to listen to the masterpieces of Western music. Show notes are available at www.natebrownmusic.com Listen to the pieces for Week 14 on this Spotify playlist. | |||