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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: Viennese Classics

Afternoon Concert: Viennese Classics: Episode 2

Episode 2

Viennese Classics

BBC Radio 3 - Afternoon Concert, Viennese Classics, Episode 2

The BBC SSO in music by J Strauss II, Berg, Schubert, Schumann, Mozart and Brahms.

Music performed by the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra. J Strauss II: On the Beautiful Blue Danube. Berg: Violin Concerto. Plus worsk by Schubert, Schumann, Mozart and Brahms.

Louise Fryer continues her week featuring recent concerts by the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra playing Viennese classics. Today's programme begins with performances given earlier this month of Schubert, Berg and - to begin the afternoon - Johann Strauss's most famous waltz, the Blue Danube.

Plus Mozart, Brahms, and the second in the week's series of symphonies by Brahms's mentor Robert Schumann.


Johann Strauss II: On the Beautiful Blue Danube (Waltz)

Berg: Violin Concerto
Julian Rachlin (violin)

2.30pm
Schubert arr. Webern: Six German Dances, D.820
BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra,
Donald Runnicles (conductor).

2.45pm
Schumann: Symphony no. 2 in C major, Op. 61
BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra,
Rory MacDonald (conductor).

3.20pm
Mozart: Fantasia in C minor, K.475
Ronald Brautigam (piano)

3.30pm
Brahms: Symphony no. 1 in C minor
BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra,
Donald Runnicles (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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