Long before developing his distinctively sparse, crystalline approach to Schoenberg’s 12-tone technique, Anton Webern was an up-and-comer writing in a late Romantic style whose expressive lushness ...
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 ...
“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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
As principal conductor of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra since 2006, Bernard Haitink has featured more prominently on the orchestra's own CD label than anyone else, and the results have generally been ...
In January 1961, a glamorous 24-year-old Zubin Mehta, who was already taking classical music by storm, made his West Coast debut with the Los Angeles Philharmonic. Included in those L.A. Phil programs ...
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 ...
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