Elizabeth Alker welcomes the new year with listener requests and early works of Schoenberg, Berg and Webern. Plus the feature Sounds of the Earth. Show more
Jonathan Swain introduces the most recent Record Review Building a Library recommendation of Bruckner's Third Symphony. Show more
Live from the Musikverein, Vienna, Petroc Trelawny presents the Vienna Philharmonic's New Year's Day concert. Gustavo Dudamel conducts waltzes and polkas mainly from the Strausses. Show more
Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert
Wigmore Hall Mondays: Maxim Rysanov and Ashley Wass
58 minutes on BBC Radio 3
From Wigmore Hall, Maxim Rysanov (viola), Ashley Wass (piano). Schubert: Sonatina, D408. Desyatnikov: Wie der alte Leiermann. Akhunov: Erlkonig. Tabakova: Suite in Jazz Style. Show more
Lucie Skeaping explores Vienna's early musical history, including works by Neidhart von Reuental, Ludwig Senfl, Heinrich Isaac, Fux, Schmelzer and Haydn. Show more
From St Gabriel's Church, Pimlico, London on the Feast of the Holy Innocents with the Rodolfus Choir. Show more
Sara Mohr-Pietsch explores the choral music of Arnold Schoenberg. Plus an amateur choir introducing themselves and a Choral Classic: Beethoven's Calm Sea and Prosperous Voyage. Show more
The Listening Service
Breaking Free: Tom Service on the Second Viennese School
29 minutes on BBC Radio 3
Available for over a year
As part of Radio 3's Breaking Free season, Tom Service considers how to listen to the Second Viennese School, which developed from early expressionist ventures into atonality. Show more
Anton Lesser and Imogen Stubbs read from Stefan Zweig's elegiac memoir of Vienna The World of Yesterday. Plus music by Johann Strauss I, Die Strottern and Schoenberg. Show more
Stephen Johnson explores Sigmund Freud's enigmatic relationship with music, talking to Michelle Duncan, Darian Leader, Julie Jaffee Nagel, David Nice and Josep Marco Pallares. Show more
A Prom in which Marin Alsop conducts the BBC Proms Youth Choir and the Orchetra of the Age of Enlightenment in Verdi's Requiem. Show more
Philip Franks directs a radio adaptation of John Osborne's play, banned by the censor in 1965. With Michael Pennington, Amanda Root, Richard Goulding and Peter Egan. Show more
Tom Service focuses on Schoenberg's objection to being dubbed a 'famous theoretician and controversial musician'. Show more
Simon Heighes introduces highlights from a recital given by harpsichordist Andreas Staier at the 2016 Spring Arts Festival in Monte Carlo. Show more
Music heard in Schoenberg's first season of subscription concerts, set up in November 1918 to promote the appreciation of new music.
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