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

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

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

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

Conductor Edward Gardner opened the London Philharmonic’s season with a detailed and focused performance of Schoenberg’s formidable cantata.

Edward Gardner finds sumptuous intensity in Schoenberg’s drama, alongside a lesser-known version by Fried and dramatic song pairings to frame an intriguing collection

Over the past few months, our Know the Score series introduced 20 great composers. But what of the many we couldn’t write about? Martin Kettle suggests some other names whose music is well worth exploring

A group of just 22 socially distanced string players found a wealth of detail in a programme that included Britten and Schoenberg

Edward Gardner finds the links between Schoenberg’s early orchestral score and the paranoid musical expressionism of his later symphonic poem

Spotify’s list of big sounds of 2017 includes the challenging form pioneered by Arnold Schoenberg – nestled alongside chillhop, trap Latino and future funk

Schoenberg’s music, Thomas Mann’s writing and the aftermath of Nazism overlap in an ingenious novel brimming with ideas

In his final concert as their chief conductor, Donald Runnicles guided the BBCSSO and festival chorus magnificently through the richness and drama of the mega-cantata

Louis Andriessen’s De Materie has made waves with its inclusion of 100 sheep from Pennsylvania, but they’re hardly the first animals to accompany an aria