The New Criterion

In the current issue of the magazine, Jay has a chronicle on the 2021 Salzburg Festival. In this episode, he plays some of the music he discusses: from Bach to Mozart to Gershwin. (There are seven composers in all.) A marvelous array of pieces and performers. Bach, Keyboard Partita No. 1 in B flat, Gigue Handel, “Lascia la spina, cogli la rosa,” from “Il trionfo del Tempo e del Disinganno” Bach, Keyboard Partita No. 5 in G, Gigue Mozart, Exsultate, jubilate Cimara, “Stornello” Gershwin, Preludes Massenet, “En fermant les yeux,” from “Werther” Beethoven, Missa solemnis