Arnold Schoenberg
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4 out of 5 stars.Edward Gardner finds sumptuous intensity in Schoenberg’s drama, alongside a lesser-known version by Fried and dramatic song pairings to frame an intriguing collection
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Over the past few months, our Know the Score series introduced 20 great composers. But what of the many we couldn’t write about? Martin Kettle suggests some other names whose music is well worth exploring
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4 out of 5 stars.A group of just 22 socially distanced string players found a wealth of detail in a programme that included Britten and Schoenberg
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This week in our series in which critics tell us what they’ve been listening to at home, Rian Evans luxuriates in heady Szymanowski and Schoenberg, smells the brine in Aldeburgh and is impressed by an end-of-year double bill
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This week, in our series in which critics tell us what they’ve been listening to at home, Andrew Clements shares Schoenberg, takes a seat at the Royal Opera House, and looks forward to a narcissistic fish
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4 out of 5 stars.Edward Gardner finds the links between Schoenberg’s early orchestral score and the paranoid musical expressionism of his later symphonic poem
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Over the past century, the term ‘English music’ has solidified into a narrow nostalgic genre with - now - Brexity overtones. But the rich variety of the UK’s classical music is that it knows no borders
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Spotify’s list of big sounds of 2017 includes the challenging form pioneered by Arnold Schoenberg – nestled alongside chillhop, trap Latino and future funk
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Schoenberg’s music, Thomas Mann’s writing and the aftermath of Nazism overlap in an ingenious novel brimming with ideas
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Arnold Schoenberg: Do not approach with caution
Pina NapolitanoSchoenberg’s music is too often considered intimidating and inaccessible. On the contrary, argues pianist Pina Napolitano, who finds in it beauty and passion. All you need is an open mind.
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Europe’s musical heart nurtured Beethoven, Schubert and the Strausses, but its second school changed music forever, and today, innovation sits alongside traditionalism
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4 out of 5 stars.In his final concert as their chief conductor, Donald Runnicles guided the BBCSSO and festival chorus magnificently through the richness and drama of the mega-cantata
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Louis Andriessen’s De Materie has made waves with its inclusion of 100 sheep from Pennsylvania, but they’re hardly the first animals to accompany an aria
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One of the great British composers and a former Master of the Queen’s Music
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The £2,000 prize has been awarded to Leah Broad for her reappraisal of the Finnish composer
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Conductor and writer who devoted much of his working life to the composer Stravinsky
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For his third piano sonata, Stephen Hough wondered if he could use the inflexible 12-tone composition technique to ask questions about the very technique itself
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4 out of 5 stars.Mitsuko Uchida’s offered a graceful Proms account of Arnold Schoenberg’s Piano Concerto, while Vladimir Jurowski led a grand, urgent reading of Shostakovich’s Eighth Symphony
Schoenberg: Pierrot Lunaire; Phantasie review – Kopatchinskaja pushes expressionism to extremes
3 out of 5 stars.