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Klangforum Wien review – Vienna focus brings lucid and colour-filled Pierrot Lunaire

Schoenberg’s revolutionary work powered the new-music ensemble’s second Wigmore programme, based around 20th-century modernism

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From Captain America to The White Lotus: a complete guide to this week’s entertainment

Anthony Mackie dons the Lycra as Marvel’s shield-chucking superhero, and Mike White’s resort-hopping black comedy returns for a third season

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LPO/Kremer/Roslavets/Boreyko review – an evening of raw and uncompromising music

The darkness of Shostakovich’s Symphony No 13 and Schoenberg’s A Survivor From Warsaw had a haunting modern resonance

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Prom 67: BBCSO/Peltokoski/Kopatchinskaja review – conducting sensation reveals what the fuss is about

The 24-year-old Tarmo Peltokoski showed there’s substance to the hype with thoughtful Schoenberg – Kopatchinskaja playing with elfin grace – and an ambitious and moving account of Shostakovich’s fifth

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Prom 9: BBC Scottish SO/Wigglesworth review – meticulous making of unexpected connections

Beautiful wind playing in a slow-burning Brahms joined searing strings in Schoenberg and Alice Coote’s fine-grain singing of Mahler for a space-testing night

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Prom 5: BBCNOW/Bancroft review – full-blooded return to the birth of modernism

Ryan Bancroft’s conducting did crisp justice to Schoenberg’s Pelleas and Melisande and Zemlinsky’s Mermaid, which originally premiered together in 1905

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Hebrides Ensemble/Lamprea review – Schoenberg’s Pierrot is pushed to extremes

Pierrot Lunaire was at the centre of this concert, with Stephanie Lamprea’s performance taking the work to the edge of hysteria. Newer music by Electra Perivolaris and Helen Grime continued the Pierrot theme

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Schoenberg: Expressionist Music album review – thoughtful and illuminating collection

Soprano Claire Booth and pianist Christopher Glynn turn to Schoenberg’s early and little known songs in this immaculate recording

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Mullova Ensemble: Transfigured Night review – insights into Schoenberg’s string sextet

A fascinating idea – an evening of music and dance reflecting the poem that was the starting point for Schoenberg’s famous piece alongside an unadorned performance of the work itself – doesn’t quite succeed

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Transfigured Night at Milton Court review: outstanding take on a masterpiece of the string sextet repertoire

The six players breathed as one during this work, inspired by Dehmel's scandalous poem, projecting the inner voices of the text and the score

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From The Miracle Club to Sir Quentin Blake: a complete guide to this week’s entertainment

A stellar cast embarks upon a pilgrimage in Thaddeus O’Sullivan’s feminist drama, and Roald Dahl’s wildly distinctive illustrator celebrates his 90th birthday

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‘Joni Mitchell watched me sing one of her songs. I was horrified’: Rick Beato, the world’s best-loved music nerd

As energised by Taylor Swift as Schoenberg, Beato has earned millions of fans with his YouTube videos and become the man musicians seek out to discuss their craft

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Emerson String Quartet: Infinite Voyage review – leading quartet bid farewell with Schoenberg and Berg

This wonderful parting gift from the quartet features warm lustrous performances of Schoenberg’s Second Quartet (with soprano Barbara Hannigan) and Berg’s opus 3, plus two beautifully rendered rarities by Hindemith and Chausson

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Skalkottas: Violin Concerto; Concerto for Violin, Viola and Wind review – little-known works give glimpses of greatness

Violinist George Zacharias’s belief in this hugely demanding music shines through, but the stylistic differences between the concertos is bewildering

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Transfigurations: Schoenberg – Berg review: Het Collectief show that less can be more

The Belgian group shine new light on the works of the Second Viennese School although not all the chamber arrangements bring gains

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Berg: Violin Concerto; Three Orchestral Pieces review – an idiomatic and accomplished collection

Conductor Andrew Davis and warm-toned soloist James Ehnes vividly connect Berg’s early music to his later scores and the composers who were his models

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Rolf Hind/Juliet Fraser/Quatuor Bozzini review – potency and sadness

A fascinating amalgam of old and new at these famed summer concerts, including a collaboration inspired by Schoenberg’s wife

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Mavra/Pierrot Lunaire review – blancmanges, bin bags and drag as double bill probes gender

The Royal Opera’s unusual pairing of two modernist works boasts an outstanding lead in Alexandra Lowe as Pierrot Lunaire, and plenty of imaginative touches elsewhere

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