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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 大象传媒 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)
大象传媒 Philharmonic
John Storgards (conductor)

Schoenberg: Chamber Symphony No. 2, Op.38
大象传媒 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: 大象传媒 Philharmonic. Conductor: John Storg氓rds.
  • Arnold Schoenberg

    Chamber Symphony No 2

    Orchestra: 大象传媒 Philharmonic. 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 大象传媒 Philharmonic

Broadcast

  • Wed 4 Jan 2017 14:00