Original version

BBC Radio 3 is a radio channel that started transmitting on the 30th September 1967. It replaced Third Programme.

BBC Radio 3

Radio 3

Afternoon Concert

Music: Classical

Unique performances with BBC Orchestras, Choirs and other great orchestras

Unique performances with BBC Orchestras, Choirs and other great orchestras from around the world

Afternoon on 3: The Viola

Afternoon Concert: The Viola: Episode 1

Episode 1

The Viola

BBC Radio 3 - Afternoon Concert, The Viola, Episode 1

Presented by Penny Gore. With viola music by Walton, Tchaikovsky and Beethoven.

Penny Gore presents Steven Burnard in Walton's Viola Concerto and Maxim Rysanov in Tchaikovsky's Variations on a Rococo Theme, in a series highlighting the viola.

Penny Gore presents a series of programmes in which the 'Cinderella of the orchestra', the viola, takes centre stage, with a variety of concertos, sonatas and other works for the instrument. New Generation Artist Maxim Rysanov plays his own arrangement of Tchaikovsky's Rococo Variations, originally for cello, and BBC Philharmonic principal viola Steven Burnard performs Walton's viola concerto.

Walton: Viola Concerto (revised version)
Steven Burnard (viola)
BBC Philharmonic
Martyn Brabbins (conductor)

Haydn: Symphony No 44 (Trauer)
BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra
Ilan Volkov (conductor)

2.45pm
Tchaikovsky: Variations on a rococo theme, Op 33 (arr. for viola by Maxim Rysanov)
Maxim Rysanov (viola)
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Gullberg Jensen (conductor)

3.10pm
Beethoven: Symphony No 6
BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra
Ilan Volkov (conductor)

Beethoven: Notturno for piano and viola, Op 42 arr. from Serenade for piano and strings, Op 8 (6th mvt - Theme and variations)
Maxim Rysanov (viola)
Ashley Wass (piano)

4.00pm
Prokofiev: Symphony No 5 in B flat, Op 100
BBC National Orchestra of Wales
Jac van Steen (conductor).

Afternoon Concert: The Viola

Live music and the arts: broadcasts more live music than any other radio network. Classical music is its core. Genres include world and new music, jazz, speech and drama.

Performances & Events

Series focusing on music for the viola, considered to be the 'cinderella of the orchestra'

Series focusing on music for the viola, considered to be the 'cinderella of the orchestra'. Including various concertos, sonatas as well as other works

Accessibility links

Programme Index

Afternoon Concert

The Viola

Episode 1

Genres

Brand

Series

BBC Radio 3

About BBC Radio 3