“There’s a moment in the story of Lot’s Wife that has haunted me for years,” says Maya Beiser, cellist and inveterate explorer of roads less traveled. “It’s not the turning to salt—it’s the turning to look. That instinctual, human act of looking back at what you love, even as it’s being destroyed. That moment holds everything: memory, defiance, tenderness—and the impossible cost of remembering.” Salt, the latest entry in Beiser’s richly idiosyncratic discography, takes its title from a “miniopera” in five sections by Missy Mazzoli, whose score also calls for electronics and vocals by the contralto Helga Davis. The balance of the playlist offers transcriptions of mythologically themed music by Monteverdi, Purcell, and Gluck alongside contemporary or near-contemporary selections by John Tavener, Meredith Monk, and Clarice Jensen. —Matthew Gurewitsch