Forget the sneering of Benjamin Britten, for whom Brahms’s music was “ugly and foul”, the German composer and pianist was a virtuoso talent whose best works burn with volcanic passion and seriousness of purpose

Norman Lebrecht re-examines the life and legacy of Stravinsky.

These four composers deserve to be remembered without exaggeration in service of social revanchism

Radical composers are not out to smash the system

“Orchestra makes right call” shock!

Let the brass section blow cobwebbed memories to kingdom come

This dazzling album features young composers in hyperinflationary Berlin

There’s a new burst of steam from the sauna

As shattering as any work of its era

Conductors should leave accompanying to the collaborative pianists