The 20th-Century & Modern Classical Music Collection

52-Week Guided Composer Immersions

The twentieth century did not produce one new musical language.

It produced many.

As inherited traditions were stretched, challenged and sometimes abandoned, composers found new possibilities in harmony, rhythm, colour, structure and expression.

Each 52-week experience places you inside the creative world of one composer, exploring the music, influences, personal struggles and historical forces that shaped their distinctive voice.

Journey from Mahler and Richard Strauss at the boundaries of Romanticism through the contrasting worlds of Satie, Scriabin, Schoenberg, Bartók, Prokofiev, Gershwin and beyond.

Delivered through a beautifully designed digital journal, every experience combines guided listening, cultural history and personal reflection. Week by week, unfamiliar musical languages become more intelligible, and the transformation of modern music begins to reveal its larger human story.

This is not a rapid survey of twentieth-century music.

It is an invitation to spend a year with one of the composers who reimagined what music could become.

One composer.
Fifty-two weeks.
A new way of hearing the modern world.