Webern’s music was revolutionary, but did not become widely accessible until Craft directed this series of recordings In the decades after the second world war it was the music of Anton Webern, rather ...

The symphonic principle, as we've been discovering, can take in a gigantic range of interpretations; from Berio's centrigufal sounding together of a world of reference, history and allusion, to the ...

Here's to avant-garde jazz. Unruly and ill-behaved, the seeds planted by saxophonists Ornette Coleman and John Coltrane, and carried forward by reed multi-instrumentalist Anthony Braxton and melded ...

Anton Weberns Langsamer Satz for string quartet was performed as part of the My GAIA concert during the Festivals 2012 edition Composed in 1905 Langsamer Satz is in traditional sonata form and in the ...

During a performance some years ago of Anton Webern’s String Trio, the cellist of the London Philharmonic Trio rose abruptly and stalked off stage with the words: “I can’t play this thing.” Few would ...

“This is a song for you alone”: such is the invitational opening line of the first of five songs set to Stefan George poems (Op. 3) by Anton Webern (1883-1945). It’s one of thirty-one works in which ...

Anton Webern: "Someone once said that in Webern's music, a novel would last as long as a sigh, and there's a love story in every trill… He tried to reduce it to its essence." Seventy years ago this ...

Australian composer Brett Dean curates his second Metropolis this year, presenting a four-part series that champions the streams of modernism that flowed from the Second Viennese School. It also ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Not too surprising that the somewhat mathematically-minded alto saxophonist John Gallagher should be drawn to ...

A disciple of Schoenberg, Webern’s music has exercised a tremendous influence on contemporary composers, especially Boulez and Stockhausen. The son of an aristocratic mining engineer (Webern dropped ...