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

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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: Breaking Free - the minds that changed music

BBC Philharmonic

Afternoon Concert: Breaking Free - the minds that changed music: Episode 3

Episode 3

Breaking Free - the minds that changed music

BBC Radio 3 - Afternoon Concert, Breaking Free - the minds that changed music, Episode 3

Penny Gore presents music by Berg and Schoenberg.

Penny Gore features music from the Second Viennese School. Berg: 5 Altenberg Lieder, Op 4 (with Ruby Hughes: soprano). Schoenberg: Chamber Symphony No 2, Op 38. Berg: Lulu Suite.

Breaking Free - the minds that changed music. Penny Gore presents a week of Afternoon on 3 comprising EBU and BBC performing groups as part of Radio 3's celebration of the Second Viennese School. Today includes Berg's Altenberg Lieder, the first performance of which so shocked the audience that it caused a riot. Plus Schoenberg's 2nd Chamber Symphony, and the suite drawn from Berg's unfinished opera, Lulu.

2pm
Berg: 5 Altenberg Lieder, Op.4
Ruby Hughes (soprano)
BBC Philharmonic
John Storgards (conductor)

Schoenberg: Chamber Symphony No. 2, Op.38
BBC Philharmonic
Andrew Gourlay (conductor)

c.2.40pm
Berg: Lulu Suite 
Mahler Chamber orchestra
Barbara Hannigan (soprano/conductor)

3.25pm
The World of the Second Viennese School in 5 Objects
Tom McKinney explores the Schoenberg's new take of chess, his Koalitionsschach, and finds out how it connects to the composer's own experience of the First World War.

Afternoon Concert: Breaking Free - the minds that changed music

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Penny Gore presents performances for Radio 3's celebration of the Second Viennese School

Penny Gore presents EBU and BBC performing groups playing works for Radio 3's celebration of the Second Viennese School, set alongside some of school's musical influences

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