The UK’s Radio 3 is playing the complete works of Anton Webern in one session. “No amount of historical importance and peer endorsement will persuade anyone to love Webern. Nor will the copious amounts of ink spilt by the theorists who’ve shown just how beautifully ingenious his music is, as full of mirror-forms and symmetries as the rock crystals Webern loved to collect on his Alpine walks. But in any case, I suspect Radio 3 controller Roger Wright doesn’t want to lecture us. He just wants us to love Webern’s music as it deserves. That will be a tough call…”