“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 ...

Grab your pencils, notebooks, and binders and head back to school with Arnold Schoenberg, Anton Webern, Ernst Krenek, and Alban Berg. As the academic year begins, Music in the Making returns to 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 ...

After hearing Anton Webern's Five Pieces for String Quartet at Kirkland House on Tuesday, I had a hard time understanding why Vienna was scandalized when it first heard this work in 1913. For these ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Symphony No. 1 François-Xavier Roth, Conductor South West German Radio Symphony Orchestra, Baden-Baden and Freiburg (members) Gustav Mahler, Composer Im Sommerwind South West German Radio Symphony ...

The National Symphony Orchestra’s concert with Christoph Eschenbach on Thursday night was a nice piece of programming and an abject failure of marketing. On the progamming side, it offered three ...

May 14, 2011 • Hear conductor Kent Nagano, pianist Angela Hewitt and the venerable orchestra trace the arc of symphonic tradition from the Renaissance to modern times — with music by Gabrieli, Bach, ...