Nate Brown
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.
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Episodes
54: Gavottes Are Backwards 07.07.2026 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 29.06.2026 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 22.06.2026 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 15.06.2026 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 09.06.2026 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) 01.06.2026 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 26.05.2026 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 18.05.2026 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 12.05.2026 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 05.05.2026 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 27.04.2026 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? 21.04.2026 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) 14.04.2026 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 07.04.2026 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 31.03.2026 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 24.03.2026 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) 18.03.2026 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 10.03.2026 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? 05.03.2026 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 26.02.2026 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 19.02.2026 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 11.02.2026 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 05.02.2026 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 28.01.2026 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 21.01.2026 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
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