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As musical minimalism was gaining currency throughout the world, a generation of Dutch musicians took increasingly radical approaches. Amsterdam’s Muziekgebouw is celebrating 50 years since this high watermark of musical dissent.

Relentlessness is the keyword of Aribert Reimann’s modernist Lear, in a stripped-down new Komische Oper Berlin production by Barrie Kosky.

A leading composer and conductor of opera in Germany, Manfred Gurlitt’s Jewish ancestry led to his music being banned. Emigrating to Japan, he became a pioneer of opera and Western classical music in Japan, a legacy still felt today.

Joana Mallwitz pairs rare Luigi Nono with Mahler's Fourth Symphony at the Konzerthausorchester's Musikfest Berlin programme. 

Revolutionary music, a century on: Pierre-Laurent Aimard excels in Schoenberg and Ives.

Dramatising the aftermath of a mass shooting in Finland, Innocence explores violence, trauma and collective responsibility. Co-librettist Aleksi Barrière speaks about one of Kaija Saariaho’s last major works.

With an output ranging from dense sound clusters to romantic oratorios, Penderecki’s music is remarkably diverse – and throughout is redolent with the trauma and memory of the 20th century.

Inspired by grime, Jean Michel Basquiat, and the legacies of colonialism, composer Hannah Kendall talks about how music is always about more than just music.

The German composer discusses the long awaited world premiere of his new work Prague Symphony with the Czech Philharmonic, which sets fragments of Franz Kafka for two singers and orchestra.