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Presenter：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.
CARAVAGGIO – KANCHELI - MONTEVERDI
We will be looking at selected works by Caravaggio, known for his ability to push the bounds of chiaroscuro in his works - strong contrasts between light and dark to create volume, depth, and drama. We will look at two of his paintings related to music – The Musicians and The Lute Player – accompanied by a contemporary work by Giya Kancheli who recreates the technique in music, AND, we will look at Rest on the Flight into Egypt' and hear music from one of Caravaggio’s contemporaries – Monteverdi, and selections from his opulent tribute to the Virgin Mary. Just as Caravaggio used piercing shafts of light against deep black backdrops, Monteverdi contrasted stark vocal dissonances with resolution in his works.
Presenter：Stacey Rodda 盧廸思
ROSSETTI, LEIGHTON AND THE HARP
The visual arts have been influenced by music and musical instruments for as long as we can imagine. In this programme, we look at the unique aesthetic beauty of the harp featured in ever so many paintings.
La Ghirlandata (1873) by Dante Gabriel Rossetti is incredibly beautiful. In it, he uses deep, rich greens and golds for the woman’s robe and the lush foliage that surrounds her. Rossetti’s subject looks directly at the viewer while playing a gilded harp. Musical instruments figure prominently in Rossetti’s work. His Morning Music captures an intimate domestic scene complete with a musician playing a type of lute.
Edmund Blair Leighton’s The End of The Song (c. 1902) depicts one of the world’s greatest legends - the tragic tale of the forbidden but undying love between the Cornish knight Tristan and the Irish princess Isolde. In this painting, Tristan, a gifted harpist, has just serenaded his beloved Isolde with a song of love.
You can imagine the music to come…
