Betrayal, devotion and invocation

“Mozart's Countess bemoans her faithless husband in The Marriage of Figaro, the Rustavi Choir pay homage to a metaphorical vineyard with a church song that was permitted in the atheist Soviet Union, and Yusef Lateef invokes the creeping twilight before dawn. Stereolab open with a Space Moment, then there's Brahms' fluttering Scherzo from his second Piano Trio. The early Three Fantastic Dances by Shostakovich introduce the first of his un-Viennese waltzes and tricksy polkas, and there is something of the passacaglia's lofty gravitas in the Largo of JS Bach's violin concerto after BWV 1055.”