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 ...

In three weeks' time, on September 15, Radio 3 will do something quite marvellously idealistic - or quixotic, or perhaps completely mad, depending on your point of view. It will give us the entire ...

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 ...

On Thursday 15 September, BBC Radio 3 presents Webern Day, 60 years to the day after the Austrian composer's dramatic death. His complete works - about five and a half hours in total - will be ...

Webern is emphatically not to be feared. It is hard to believe that this man is the hard-line serialist so vilified on his centenary by the British writer Bernard Levin. The fleeting watercolours of ...

“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 ...

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 ...

On Thursday 15 September, BBC Radio 3 presents Webern Day, 60 years to the day after the Austrian composer's dramatic death. His complete works - about five and a half hours in total - will be ...

Amazon mp3: NA | Amazon CD: ~$11 | ArkivMusic: $19 | Qobuz: £8 - £12 (Hi-Res) | iTunes mp3: $10 It took the ECM album “Messe Noire” for me to get wise to the extraordinary pianism of Alexei Lubimov.

The most satisfying aspect of Taka Kigawa’s performance at Le Poisson Rouge on Monday evening was the sense of clarity and apparent ease he brought to a parade of harmonically thorny and, in some ...