Guardian Music — CBSO Centre, BirminghamTwo premieres and the first performance of a major revision featured in the opening concert of the Birmingham Contemporary Music Group's season, conducted by Diego Masson. Alongside postwar classics from Maderna and Donatoni, ... more info

Guardian Music — It mimics Monteverdi and mocks Mozart. It's puerile and prophetic. Welcome to Ligeti's 'anti-anti-opera', Le Grande MacabreIt takes all of about five seconds before you realise that Hungarian composer György Ligeti's Le Grand Macabre is an opera o... more info

Guardian Music — Hunched over their radio dials, the musicians performing John Cage's Imaginary Landscape No 4 are a strange sight – and, in the digital age, an increasingly rare oneOne evening in May 1951, at the McMillin theatre at Columbia University, New Y... more info

Guardian Music — Chopin has made it on to Radio 1, courtesy of Muse's latest hit United States of Eurasia. But don't stop there,kids: here's where you and your iPod should venture nextKids up and down the country are tuning in to Radio 1 and scratching their heads. W... more info