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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: Mahler: Mahler and Vienna

Afternoon Concert: Mahler: Mahler and Vienna: Part 4

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Part 4 BBC Radio 3 - Afternoon Concert, Mahler, Mahler and Vienna, Part 4

Penny Gore with music from the 1st and 2nd Viennese Schools, plus Mahler's Symphony No 6.

Penny Gore with music from the First and Second Viennese Schools. J Strauss II: Overture (Die Fledermaus). Haydn: Symphony No 99. Webern: Passacaglia. Plus Mahler's Symphony No 6.

Afternoon on 3 continues its celebration of Mahler, focusing on his early career in Vienna.Today's programme features music from the first and second Viennese Schools, along with part of Strauss's Salome, a work which the censors forbid Mahler to conduct at the State Opera. Plus Mahler 6th Symphony in a performance by the Berlin Philharmonic under Bernard Haitink.

Presented by Penny Gore. 

2pm
J Strauss II: Die Fledermaus Overture
BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra
Stefan Solyom, conductor

Haydn: Symphony no.99 in E flat major
BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra
Baldur Bronnimann, conductor

2.40pm
Strauss: Salome - Dance of the 7 Veils
NDR Philharmonic Orchestra
Eiji Oue, conductor

Dvorak: Slavonic Dance in E minor, Op.46'2
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Jiri Belohlavek, conductor

Schubert arr anon: An Sylvia
Schubert arr Reger: Im Abendrot
Henk Neven, baritone
BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra
Michael Seal, conductor

3pm
Webern: Passacaglia
BBC Symphony Orcestra
Susanna Mälkki, conductor

Schubert orch Webern: Ihr Bild, Tranenregen, Der Wegweiser (from 'Winterreise') and Du bist die Ruh
Henk Neven, baritone
BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra
Michael Seal, conductor

3.30pm
Mahler Symphony no.6 in A minor
Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra
Bernard Haitink, conductor.

Afternoon Concert: Mahler

Afternoon Concert: Mahler: Mahler and Vienna

Mahler and Vienna

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.

Series of performances celebrating various facets of Gustav Mahler's life and work

Series to mark the 150th anniversary of the birth of Gustav Mahler, with performances celebrating various facets of the composer's life and work

Penny Gore explores Gustav Mahler's early career in Vienna

Penny Gore explores Gustav Mahler's early career in Vienna, where he studied at the Conservatory

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