Episode 1

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. Set in the context of the composers who influenced them, there'll be music from Bach, Mozart, Richard Strauss and Schoenberg's teacher Zemlinsky, along with Schoenberg's first important work, Verklärte Nacht.

2pm
Schoenberg: Verklärte Nacht, Op.4
RTVE Symphony Orchestra
Leopold Hager (conductor)

Bach: Concerto No. 1 in A minor, BWV.1041, for violin and string orchestra
Rachel Podger (director)
BBC National Orchestra of Wales

c.2.45pm
Webern: Entflieht auf leichten Kähnen, Op.2 2
WDR Radio Chorus
Robert Blank (conductor)

Schoenberg: Chamber Symphony No.1 in E, Op. 9
Basel Sinfonietta
Duncan Ward (conductor)

c.3.10pm
Zemlinsky: Sinfonietta, Op.23
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Martyn Brabbins (conductor)

Berg: 3 Pieces, Op.6, for orchestra
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Oliver Knussen (conductor)

c.3.55pm
Strauss: Horn Concerto No. 1 in E flat, Op.11
Alberto Menendez (horn)
BBC Philharmonic
Juanjo Mena (conductor)

Mozart: Symphony in D major, K.121, (Finale)
BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra
Donald Runnicles (conductor)

4.25pm
The World of the Second Viennese School in 5 Objects
Tom McKinney looks at Richard Gerstl's curious 'Laughing Self-portrait', a painting which epitomizes the artist's demise at the height of expressionism.