Episode 3

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.