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 ...

“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 ...

The four siblings start with Webern before ditching traditional instruments for mics, voices, percussion and oud ...

The pairing of Bach’s unfinished composition with Webern’s spare pieces for string quartet works well, although background noise takes the shine off The three works for string quartet by Anton Webern ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...