The Liverpudlian composer's music is full of top tunes, infectious rhythmic power, and bold, poster-paint colours, writes Tom Service.Steve Martland, whose death from a heart attack at 53 has just been announced, was an ...
Our contemporary composers series ends with the most divisive figure of them all: StockhausenKarlheinz Stockhausen has arguably done more to transform 20th- and 21st-century music than any other single composer: from ...
Sound and Music has gone back to basics. Is it time to call for an end to hostilities and get behind the new-model institution?To say that Sound and Music was an institution in need of a rebrand this time last year is ...
The real legacy of Schnittke's music is its multidimensional exploration of what musical truth in the 20th century might be, from chaotic polystylism to heartfelt spirituality All articles in this seriesWhat constitutes ...
The Greek composer trained as an architect, and created works of shattering visceral power that still astound todayIt sounds like something out of a film script. A Greek man in his early 20s fights for his homeland as part ...
Five of his works feature in this year's Proms. Sibelius dedicated his Third Symphony to him. It's time to find out more about this little-known English composerReading on mobile? Listen to Bantock's Hebridean Symphony ...
The Finn has become a concert hall staple – but his best works predate his embrace of colour and hyper-romanticismIt's a long way from here to here, you'd have thought: the first is from Magnus Lindberg's 1985 piece ...
Amsterdam's world-class orchestra and concert hall celebrate their 125th anniversary this week. Tom Service explains why the hall's famously perfect acoustics create unexpected challenges for its playersYou never forget ...
The Russian composer's brutally uncompromising work has an elementality that's both horrifying and thrillingIt has the "narrowness of a laser beam which is capable of piercing metal"; it's a "voice from the 'Black Hole' of ...
Without Goehr's appreciation of history, musical modernism would have taken even longer to reach Britain than it did All articles in this seriesThe 20th century's accumulation of musical history was arguably the ...
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