Simply sign up to the Life & Arts myFT Digest -- delivered directly to your inbox. It was the moment we had been waiting for. Brian Ferneyhough’s La terre est un homme, his succès de scandale of the ...

British composer Brian Ferneyhough has won the International Ernst von Siemens music prize, one of the most prestigious awards in classical music. Ferneyhough, who has taught composition at Stanford ...

The title given to Monday's concert by the San Francisco Contemporary Music Players was "Controversial Ground," which -- let's face it -- could be attached to any self-respecting program of new music.

On Tuesday, pianists Karl Larson and Andy Costello perform a joint recital for the Equlibrium Concert Series — three minutes of which implies an entire intellectual universe. Costello will play the ...

Three substantial instrumental works from the 1990s by Brian Ferneyhough are interspersed with a couple of miniatures, the In Nomine a 3 and the Streichtrio. All the music is typically dense and ...

British composer Brian Ferneyhough, now in his late sixties, is what Arnold Schoenberg used to be: the favourite bogeyman of modern music. Complexity is Ferneyhough’s particular sin. He’s an Awful ...

The opening “Kyrie eleison” in this new recording, beautifully moulded and decorated with trills, has a character very much its own. An initial worry that the music would be too Frenchified (William ...

Of all the styles that swirl and jostle in the great stream of new music, "New Complexity" is the most rebarbative and the one least likely to find a big audience. So it was a bold move on the part of ...