In her recital programme of Beethoven, Schoenberg, Chopin, Webern and Schubert, the Austrian pianist brought new insights and expected delights ...

“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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...