Like other audience members, I bet, I was waiting for the “Sabre Dance.” It came at 9:30 or so, two hours after curtain. We were attending Of Love and Rage, a new ballet, performed by the American ...

Subscribe to The New Criterion’s podcast series via Apple or Google. Jay presents a program of music by Aram Khachaturian. You get the “Sabre Dance,” sure, from the ballet Gayane. But plenty more, too ...

Live at the BBC Proms from the Royal Albert Hall, the organist of Paris’s Notre-Dame Cathedral roams through 250 years of music in a wide-ranging recital programme that stretches from Bach to Falla.