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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 ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ 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)
ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Philharmonic
John Storgards (conductor)

Schoenberg: Chamber Symphony No. 2, Op.38
ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ 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.

1 hour, 30 minutes

Music Played

  • Alban Berg

    5 Altenberg Lieder Op.4 for voice and orchestra

    Singer: Ruby Hughes. Orchestra: ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: John StorgÃ¥rds.
  • Arnold Schoenberg

    Chamber Symphony No 2

    Orchestra: ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Andrew Gourlay. Performer: Daniel Pioro. Performer: Elizabeth Allen.
  • Alban Berg

    Symphonic pieces from 'Lulu' (Lulu suite)

    Orchestra: Mahler Chamber Orchestra. Singer: Barbara Hannigan.
  • Franz Schubert

    Waldesnacht, D708

    Singer: Simon Keenlyside. Performer: Malcolm Martineau.
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Credit

Role Contributor
Performer ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Philharmonic Orchestra

Broadcast

  • Wed 4 Jan 2017 14:00