As part of Radio 3's Breaking Free season, Tom Service considers how to listen to the Second Viennese School, which developed from early expressionist ventures into atonality. Show more Breaking ...

Sometimes it’s hard to believe just how civilized the music scene has become around here. Each season, some uncompromisingly atonal music sneaks into concert programs, against all local ...

Diamond’s camera loves (even when action is occurring elsewhere). For all the atonality of Bernstein’s composition, which reflects the chaos of the universe, it is still a Bernstein ...

Among Berg's works are some enriching pieces to get to grips with and in most of them, behind the atonality, are glimpses of the more conventional worlds of Mahler and Richard Strauss. Berg is the ...

In 1898 Charles Ives set Psalm 67 to music. The piece begins with an eight-part bitonal chord, the men singing in four parts in G minor and the women in four parts in C major. In The World of ...

One can only sit back and wonder at his stubbornness, the way he expressed his personal vision and refused to be tied to any received wisdom. The devices that he introduced into his music – atonality, ...