This thurday the UK’s Radio 3 is broadcasting the complete works of Anton Weber in order. “The timing is right. Even as recently as 20 years ago, Webern’s music was, to most folk, an arid curiosity – a period-piece belonging to a faction of early-20th-century modernism that was experimental, clandestine, even frustrated. In reality, Webern, Schoenberg and Berg were passionate individuals, seeking new paths for music as it struggled to come to terms with the suicidal excesses of 19th-century Romanticism. In this postmodern age, Webern’s insistent, challenging and single-minded voice has a renewed vigour and relevance.”