主持人：Stacey Rodda 盧廸思
The Culture Show has been making direct connections between art inspired by music and music inspired by art. Now it’s time for more - unexpected connections...The Culture Show is continuing its look at how the visual arts and music are so connected - sometimes directly, sometimes indirectly. We have unearthed a wealth of examples, yet we have so much more to explore. I hope that for those of you who join me for the music – much of which has never been, or is very seldom played on Radio 4 – you will also develop my passion for art. Join me, Stacey Rodda, Sunday nights at 7 pm for The Culture Show.
Manet and Music
Through his work, Manet contributed significantly to the interplay between visual art and music. He demonstrated that the two art forms could inspire and inform each other, creating a richer, more immersive artistic experience.
We will look at, and hear:
Madame Manet at the Piano perhaps playing a piece dedicated to her – Emmanuel Chabrier’s Impromptu.
Music in the Tuileries Gardens where Manet as ‘flâneur’, painted a significant number of his friends, among them: other painters, writers and composers. Jacques Offenbach is pictured and we’ll hear highlights from his Gaîté Parisienne.
Masked Ball at the Opera pictures the same location that Wagner’s Tannhäuser had its Paris premiere in 1861. Having to include the Paris Opera’s request for ballet music in the opera, he obliged, but put it in the wrong place. That created quite a stir. We’ll hear it in its 1861 version.
Caillebotte & Caillebotte
In this episode we are going to look at only one painting - Young Man Playing the Piano (1876) by Gustave Caillebotte. Caillebotte was considered an Impressionist, but painted in a more realistic manner, his family and friends, the bourgeois pedestrians strolling in his neighbourhood, the workers who came to his house... This painting, with its exquisite portrayal of light coming through the window, pictures his brother Martial - a composer whose music we will hear in this episode – a unique piece of words and music that is absolutely rare and stunning - Une Journée.
主持人：Stacey Rodda 盧廸思
We are back to exploring connections between music and art and in this episode we do that through the works of Czech artist František Kupka connected to J.S. Bach. Kupka had an important part in proliferating abstraction at the beginning of the 20th century and his search for a new artistic language that could transmit intensity and musicality through colours and shapes, made him a true innovator within abstraction.
