“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 ...

Music Director Xian Zhang, now in her 10th season with New Jersey Symphony, will take the podium for concerts that include ...

In the 68 years since its inception, the Juilliard String Quartet has gone through a number of personnel changes — counting the current lineup, fifteen first-rate string players have passed through ...

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 ...

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.

This article was originally on a blog post platform and may be missing photos, graphics or links. See About archive blog posts. Gustavo Dudamel, in town for three weeks of concerts with the Los ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...