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Afternoon Concert

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Unique performances with BBC Orchestras, Choirs and other great orchestras

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Afternoon on 3: Viennese Classics

Afternoon Concert: Viennese Classics: Episode 3

Episode 3

Viennese Classics

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

Live from Salford, the BBC Philharmonic plays music by Mozart, Haydn, Casella and Strauss.

Live from MediaCity in Salford, Gianandrea Noseda conducts the BBC Philharmonic in Mozart and Casella. Soprano Ruby Hughes joins them to sing works by Haydn and Strauss.

Continuing this week's focus on the Viennese classics, today's programme opens with a live concert by the BBC Philharmonic from their home at MediaCity, Salford Quays. The orchestra's Italian Conductor Laureate Gianandrea Noseda joins them for a programme featuring Mozart, Haydn and Richard Strauss, plus Noseda's fellow countryman Alfredo Casella. The soloist in the Haydn and Strauss is Radio 3 New Generation Artist Ruby Hughes. 

After the concert, Louise Fryer presents more Haydn from this week's featured orchestra, the BBC Scottish SO, conducted by Baroque and Classical specialist Nicholas McGegan.

LIVE
Mozart: Overture to La Clemenza di Tito
Haydn: Scena di Berenice
Ruby Hughes (soprano)

2.15pm
Casella: Elegia eroica (Heroic Elegy)

2.35pm
Richard Strauss: Four Songs - Freundliche Vision; Waldseligkeit; Befreit; Zueignung
Ruby Hughes (soprano)
BBC Philharmonic
Gianandrea Noseda (conductor)


3.00pm
Haydn Symphony no. 59 in A major, H.1.59 (Fire)
BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra
Nicholas McGegan (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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