Performer: Klangforum Wien

Like Ligeti before him, Georg Friedrich Haas makes the avant garde approachable as this performance of 11,000 Strings reveals. 

At MusikTheater an der Wien, Miroslav Srnka’s new opera provess a deeply compelling, meticulously crafted work. It may not uplift, but it sears itself into the memory.

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

What do you get for the composer who made – and also kind of broke – everything? Arnold Schoenberg’s well-documented phobia of the number 13 aside, he could not have asked for a superior tribute in his 150th anniversary year.

A world première by a Czech composer highlights a strong outing by Klangforum Wien.

After Jonathan Meese's Parsifal staging was rejected by Bayreuth, he channelled his frustrations into an "arch-Parsifal" which shoots the titular hero into space, with a musical re-imagining of Wagner’s score by Austrian composer Bernhard Lang.