Audiences flock to 'difficult' contemporary classical music

The Southbank, Barbican, ENO and BBC4 are catering for the new-found appetite for sonic adventureWhen Swiss conductor Baldur Brönnimann was a student 25 years ago, "if you had more than 30 people at a concert it was a failure because it was populist crap". Today, there are growing signs that contemporary classical music is shrugging off its elitist reputation, with audiences flocking to work previously regarded as austere and impenetrable."It's the weirdest pieces which get the strongest react...

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