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Afternoon Concert

Music: Classical

Unique performances with BBC Orchestras, Choirs and other great orchestras

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Afternoon on 3: Viennese Classics

Afternoon Concert: Viennese Classics: Episode 1

Episode 1

Viennese Classics

BBC Radio 3 - Afternoon Concert, Viennese Classics, Episode 1

BBC SSO in music by Schubert, Mozart, Rossini, Mendelssohn and Schumann.

Louise Fryer presents music from the BBC SSO. Schubert: Overture (Rosamunde). Mozart: Violin Concerto No 3 (soloist: Esther Yoo). Plus Rossini, Mendelssohn and Schumann.

Louise Fryer presents a week featuring recent concerts by the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra playing Viennese classics: everything from Mozart and Haydn, through Schubert, Mendelssohn, Schumann, Brahms and Johann Strauss. to Berg! Plus a light sprinkling of Italian sunlight and other complementary icing on the cake.

You can hear all four Schumann Symphonies in the course of the week, starting today with no. 1, the 'Spring' Symphony. This afternoon there are also two of Mozart's greatest concertos, one each for violin and piano; plus - in a concert given in Glasgow at the end of January, which kicks off the programme - Mendelssohn's sunniest symphony, the 'Italian', and overtures by Rossini and Schubert.

Later in the week, there are three live 2pm concerts, by the BBC Philharmonic and Ulster Orchestras as well as the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra.


Schubert: Overture to Rosamunde

Mozart Violin Concerto no. 3 in G major, K.216
Esther Yoo (violin)

2.35pm
Rossini The Italian Girl in Algiers (Overture)

2.45pm
Mendelssohn Symphony no. 4 (Italian)
BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra,
Michal Dworzynski (conductor).

3.15pm
Mozart Piano Concerto no. 24 in C minor, K.491
Khatia Buniatishvili (piano),
BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra,
Gerard Korsten (conductor).

3.45pm
Schumann Symphony no. 1 in C major (Spring)
BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra,
Gerard Korsten (conductor).

Afternoon Concert: Viennese Classics

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.

Louise Fryer presents a series of programmes featuring works by Viennese composers

Louise Fryer presents a series of programmes featuring works by Viennese composers, performed by the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra

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