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Verklärte Nacht review – poetic journeys between dark and light
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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

Published: 7 Jan 2021

Know the score From Vivaldi to Vaughan Williams: more musical voices who have changed our world

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

Published: 25 Nov 2020

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LPO/Pappano review – wonderful warmth and magical moments
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A group of just 22 socially distanced string players found a wealth of detail in a programme that included Britten and Schoenberg

Published: 30 Aug 2020

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Schoenberg: Pelleas und Melisande; Erwartung review – dramatic extremes
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Edward Gardner finds the links between Schoenberg’s early orchestral score and the paranoid musical expressionism of his later symphonic poem

Published: 30 Apr 2020

This isle is full of noises: the trouble with 'English music'

Philip Clark

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

Published: 11 Dec 2019

Published: 11 Dec 2019

Pass notes What's the hot emerging musical genre of 2017? Welcome to serialism

Spotify’s list of big sounds of 2017 includes the challenging form pioneered by Arnold Schoenberg – nestled alongside chillhop, trap Latino and future funk

Published: 6 Dec 2017

Blue Self-Portrait by Noémi Lefebvre review – sex, art and neurosis

Schoenberg’s music, Thomas Mann’s writing and the aftermath of Nazism overlap in an ingenious novel brimming with ideas

Published: 29 Jun 2017

Arnold Schoenberg: Do not approach with caution

Pina Napolitano

Schoenberg’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.

Published: 21 Feb 2017

Published: 21 Feb 2017

Music blog A musical tour of Europe’s great cities: Vienna

Europe’s musical heart nurtured Beethoven, Schubert and the Strausses, but its second school changed music forever, and today, innovation sits alongside traditionalism

Published: 21 Oct 2016

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Gurrelieder review – almighty blast of Schoenberg rounds off festival
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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

Published: 29 Aug 2016

Our bovine public: a brief history of livestock cameos at the opera

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

Published: 29 Mar 2016
Sir Peter Maxwell Davies obituary

One of the great British composers and a former Master of the Queen’s Music

Published: 14 Mar 2016

Observer/Anthony Burgess prize-winning essay 2015: Alternative Sibelius

The £2,000 prize has been awarded to Leah Broad for her reappraisal of the Finnish composer

Published: 28 Feb 2016

Robert Craft obituary

Conductor and writer who devoted much of his working life to the composer Stravinsky

Published: 17 Nov 2015

When the shock of the new feels old what can a composer do?

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

Published: 23 Oct 2015

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LPO/Jurowski review – lucid, lyrical Schoenberg
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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

Published: 6 Sep 2015

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Mahler: Das Lied von der Erde CD review – poor recording of fine performances
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Arnold Schoenberg and Rainer Riehn’s chamber arrangement of Mahler’s piece for two voices and orchestra is a remarkably plausible work

Published: 27 Aug 2015

Tom Service on classical music Dadaville at the First Night of the Proms – and six great Proms premieres

In the spirit of the opening night, Tom Service honours the long tradition of new music at the Proms

Published: 16 Jul 2015

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