“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 ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Not too surprising that the somewhat mathematically-minded alto saxophonist John Gallagher should be drawn to ...

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 ...

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.

New to classical music? Need help creating a collection? In the latest of an ongoing series, I enter the remarkable world of Webern. Anton Webern: a minimalist in every sense. Photograph: BBC It's ...

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 ...

O'Gallagher, the former classical saxophonist from Brooklyn, here leads a tight New York outfit in a guess at the way Austrian serialist Anton Webern's music might sound if played by a jazz band. To ...

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 ...