Conductor and composer Esa-Pekka Salonen celebrates the music of Polish composer and...
Published on Sunday, 25th November 2012.
Composer Matthew Shlomowitz makes the case for Austrian composer Bernhard Lang’s 2,...
Published on Sunday, 18th November 2012.
Author and journalist Rob Young nominates French composer Eliane Radigue's Songs of of...
Published on Sunday, 11th November 2012.
Hear and Now presenter Sara Mohr-Pietsch celebrates the music of German composer on...
Published on Sunday, 4th November 2012.
Composer Julian Anderson singles out Partiels for orchestra, from French spectralist...
Published on Saturday, 27th October 2012.
Composer John Woolrich nominates Stravinsky's last completed work with orchestra,...
Published on Saturday, 20th October 2012.
Novelist and critic Philip Hensher makes the case for Per Norgard's Symphony No.
Published on Saturday, 13th October 2012.
Critic and Hear and Now presenter Tom Service nominates American composer John Carny,...
Published on Saturday, 6th October 2012.
Pianist Nicolas Hodges nominates Jean Barraque's Chant apres chant, one of just a of...
Published on Saturday, 29th September 2012.
Sound artist Kaffe Matthews on Alvin Lucier’s I am sitting in a room and how it’s...
Published on Saturday, 22nd September 2012.
Critic and Hear and Now presenter Ivan Hewett nominates Hungarian composer Gyorgy in...
Published on Saturday, 15th September 2012.
Singer and conductor Paul Hillier celebrates Terry Riley’s icon of musical and to of...
Published on Saturday, 8th September 2012.
Composer and Hear and Now presenter Robert Worby singles out V of IV, an early work by...
Published on Saturday, 1st September 2012.
Gavin Bryars's mould-breaking 1971 score Jesus' Blood Never Failed Me Yet is a work a...
Published on Saturday, 25th August 2012.
Four Tet’s Kieran Hebden explains why Silver Apples of the Moon by the American out...
Published on Saturday, 11th August 2012.
Cellist Frances-Marie Uitti celebrates the music of Giacinto Scelsi, the Italian from...
Published on Saturday, 4th August 2012.
Pianist Pierre-Laurent Aimard champions the music of maverick German composer Helmut a...
Published on Saturday, 14th July 2012.
Violinist Alexander Balanescu recounts his part in Michael Nyman's groundbreaking for...
Published on Saturday, 7th July 2012.
Author Paul Griffiths singles out this early work for ensemble by Danish composer Hans...
Published on Saturday, 30th June 2012.
The soprano Barbara Hannigan celebrates Claude Vivier’s profoundly moving work for...
Published on Saturday, 23rd June 2012.
Composer and writer Gerard McBurney nominates the austere and uncompromising Octet by...
Published on Saturday, 9th June 2012.
Pianist Joanna MacGregor celebrates Harrison Birtwistle’s The Triumph of Time, an as...
Published on Saturday, 2nd June 2012.
Choreographer Siobhan Davies nominates White Man Sleeps by the South African-born and...
Published on Saturday, 26th May 2012.
Gillian Moore champions George Benjamin’s early orchestral score At First Light, its...
Published on Saturday, 12th May 2012.
Composer George Benjamin advocates the "exuberant, thrilling and virtuosic" orchestral...
Published on Saturday, 5th May 2012.
Hollywood sound designer and film editor Walter Murch nominates Symphonie pour un seul...
Published on Saturday, 28th April 2012.
Composer Nico Muhly nominates Philip Glass's Music in Twelve Parts, a large-scale set...
Published on Saturday, 7th April 2012.
Writer and critic Paul Driver explains why Maxwell Davies’s 8 Songs For A Mad King a...
Published on Sunday, 18th March 2012.
Violinist David Harrington celebrates George Crumb's groundbreaking 1970 work for - to...
Published on Sunday, 11th March 2012.
Composer Anna Meredith nominates Gerald Barry's "bold and daring" Piano Quartet No.
Published on Sunday, 4th March 2012.
Writer and musician David Toop celebrates Toru Takemitsu's soundtrack for Masaki 1964...
Published on Sunday, 26th February 2012.
Theatre director Katie Mitchell describes her first encounter with the music of Luigi...
Published on Sunday, 19th February 2012.
Jazz pianist Ethan Iverson nominates Milton Babbitt's Philomel for soprano and tape,...
Published on Sunday, 12th February 2012.
Film director Barrie Gavin selects Jonathan Harvey's Mortuos Plango, Vivos Voco, an of...
Published on Sunday, 22nd January 2012.
Finnish conductor and music director of Ensemble InterContemporain Susanna Malkki pays...
Published on Sunday, 15th January 2012.
Conductor Richard Bernas recalls his momentous first encounter with Berio's Sinfonia,...
Published on Sunday, 8th January 2012.
Roxanna Panufnik nominates Arvo Part's Cantus In Memoriam Benjamin Britten, simple and...
Published on Sunday, 25th December 2011.
Howard Skempton singles out Extensions 3 by the American composer Morton Feldman, a he...
Published on Sunday, 18th December 2011.
Stephen Fry describes his delight and bewilderment at first hearing Conlon Nancarrow's...
Published on Sunday, 11th December 2011.
Percussionist Steven Schick recalls how a chance meeting with Brian Ferneyhough led to...
Published on Sunday, 4th December 2011.
Artist Tom Phillips on Howard Skempton's Lento for orchestra, a completely tonal piece...
Published on Sunday, 27th November 2011.
Composer and former Battles frontman Tyondai Braxton nominates Poeme electronique by a...
Published on Sunday, 13th November 2011.
Artist Tacita Dean on John Cage's legendary 4'33" and how it provided an inspiration...
Published on Sunday, 6th November 2011.
Pianist and Scratch Orchestra member John Tilbury speaks up for The Great Learning by...
Published on Saturday, 29th October 2011.
Mathematician Marcus du Sautoy explains how Iannis Xenakis uses the symmetry of a cube...
Published on Saturday, 22nd October 2011.
Dutch composer Michel van der Aa salutes compatriot Louis Andriessen's 1976 work for...
Published on Saturday, 15th October 2011.
Sir Harrison Birtwistle singles out Pierre Boulez's 1950s cycle for voice and mixed a...
Published on Saturday, 8th October 2011.
Novelist and poet Mark Haddon explains what it is about Elliott Carter's String No...
Published on Saturday, 1st October 2011.
Film-maker Sophie Fiennes explains why she chose György Ligeti's Atmosphères for the...
Published on Saturday, 24th September 2011.
Matthew Herbert, songwriter and electronic music producer, reflects on the continuing...
Published on Saturday, 17th September 2011.
