主持人：Stacey Rodda 盧廸思
MAY 2025 FOCUS: FRANCE
VIDEO PROMOTIONS ...
…connecting music to visual arts, literature, film and theatre while discovering the delights of these arts in different parts of the world
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FOCUS: FRANCE
The Culture Show with Mr. Benjamin Cabouat, Consul for Culture, Education and Science in HK and Macao
The Culture Show with Mr. Benjamin Cabouat, Consul for Culture, Education and Science in HK and Macao
The Culture Show with Mr. Benjamin Cabouat, Consul for Culture, Education and Science in HK and Macao
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The Culture Show with Mr. Timo Kantola, Consul General of Finland in Hong Kong
The Culture Show with Mr. Timo Kantola, Consul General of Finland in Hong Kong
The Culture Show with Ms. Alice Fratarcangeli, Director of the Italian Cultural Institute in Hong Kong and Macau
The Culture Show wirh Ms.Klára Jurčová, Consul General of the Czech Republic in Hong Kong
Musicians in Paintings
We will look at an old guitarist in a painting of Picasso and a man with a violin by Georges Braque, who, by the way, are also connected.
As for rarely heard music on Radio 4 - the Picasso painting is complemented by a selection of Miguel Llobet’s Catalonian Folk Songs played by guitarist Lorenzo Gasparo, and Braque's work by one of his contemporaries, Ravel. Ravel’s music, particularly works like La Valse, shares structural parallels with the artist's Cubism through fragmentation, angularity, and the "re-assembly" of traditional musical forms. We will hear La Valse in an arrangement for piano trio.
Braque and Satie
In this episode we look at the influence Erik Satie had on Georges Braque and look at the artist’s 1921 work ‘Guitar and Glass (Socrates) - Guitare et verre (Socrate)’, where Braque references parts of Satie’s score for his symphonic drama ’Socrate’. Braque shared a deep friendship with Satie and the work was born from this friendship.
We will hear Satie’s ‘Socrate’ in its entirety – a work that stands as a deliberate, serene antithesis to the dramatic excesses of 19th-century opera.
We will also look at a lithograph by Braque inspired by the mythology of Ancient Greece – ‘Phaéton, (Chariot I)’, filled with symbolic power, and hear the symphonic poem of Saint-Saens on the same subject.
