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Klangforum Wien finishes a far-reaching excursion into the boldest realms of modern music with a flourish.

In a new production for the Staatsoper Unter den Linden, director Barbora Horáková and conductor Max Renne guide the audience through Georg Friedrich Haas' deep reflection on death. 

Staged in the town’s quaint St Johann Church, the Davos Festival’s “Tiefsinn” concert featured a fine choir and soloists, saxophone quartet, chamber orchestra and a dauntless solo cellist.

Ilan Volkov conducts the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra in an attractive account of Strauss' mighty Alpine Symphony.

A programme of new music and 20th-century classics reflects on loss, war, inhumanity and redemption. 

Fantastic performances can't quite elevate a disconnected audio-visual experience

Deutsche Oper Berlin performed an intensely focussed opera on the birth and death of one man based on Jon Fosse's novel – a memorable and moving contemplation on life.

A threadbare staging from Graham Vick allows Haas’ innovative score to shine. Drama is modest, but complements sophisticated music to project an impressively unified vision.

“the moon has set... I lie alone.” A deeply absorbing new production to the music of Georg Friedrich Haas in the Linbury Studio.

The Arditti Quartet has adventurously championed contemporary repertoire throughout an illustrious career. Recent quartets from Haas and Abrahamsen are joined by Xenakis' Tetras at the New Music Dublin Festival.

The London première of Georg Friedrich Haas' cult phenomenon in vain was given as part of Southbank Centre's The Rest is Noise festival, by London Sinfonietta and conductor Emilio Pomàrico – a rhetorically brilliant performance.

This performance of Georg Friedrich Haas’ Third String Quartet, performed in the dark as part of Lincoln Center’s White Light Festival,  was an engulfing, unique experience, made all the more so by the ethereal music.

The idea of inviting a Poetry Slam champion to moderate a young person’s symphony orchestra concert was an intriguing one, and had plenty of scope to be a fascinating marriage between punk-inspired verse and classical music.

The Ensemble Resonanz is a Hamburg-based contemporary chamber orchestra committed to finding bridges to modernism amid works from centuries past, and to that end this concert featured Helmut Lachenmann set alongside Mozart, and Beethoven’s Six Bagatelles rescored by Manuel Hidalgo.