Presenter：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
PREVIOUS
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
WHERE ART AND MUSIC COLLIDE
The connections we are making this week are with works created by Paul Cézanne, Henri Fantin-Latour, John Collier and Gabriel von Max, inspired by the story of Tannhäuser and Wagner’s music.
Presenter：Stacey Rodda 盧廸思
KANDINSKY REVISITED I
This episode will be looking at how Kandinsky’s works became an inspiration to three contemporary composers.
Paintings from 1911–13 during Kandinsky’s earliest abstract period influenced Puerto Rico-born composer Roberto Sierra’s composition ‘Kandinsky’, which ranges from the intimate to the bold and virtuosic as he responds with fresh and surprising impressions to a selection of the artist’s unique paintings.
The artistic director of the Radio France Philharmonic Orchestra from 1996 to 2014, Eric Montalbetti, was also a composer. We will hear his ‘Trois études après Kandinsky’ played by François-Frédéric Guy. The key to the composer’s musical language here is in the oeuvre of the great Russian painter, viewed in reverse chronological order.
And we’ll hear a homage to Kandinsky by Roman Haubenstock-Ramati. It is a moment worth savouring, because discs documenting work by the Polish composer come along only very rarely.
