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Music for a While #52: Strains of Salzburg
38 minutes Posted Sep 22, 2021 at 10:17 pm.
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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