主持人：Stacey Rodda 盧廸思
MAY 2025 FOCUS: FRANCE
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…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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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
Magritte, Monet and Storms
In this episode we look at rain and storms in the paintings of a major figure in Belgian Surrealism, Rene Magritte, and a major figure in French Impressionism, Claude Monet.
The connections…
Danish composer Rued Langgaard composed his Symphony No. 15 the same year as Magritte’s ‘The Song of the Storm’, and its concluding section features his setting of The Night Storm to a poem by Thøger Larsen.
Liszt accomplished conjuring up a thunderstorm in his first book of Years of Pilgrimage, but more of a psychological storm than a meteorological one. And that is the connection to Magritte’s ‘Golconda’ where it’s raining men – 171 of them.
Claude Monet also portrayed rain and storms. We look at his atmospheric ‘Cliffs at Pourville, Rain’ accompanied by the impressionist music of Debussy’s ‘What the West Wind Saw’ – demanding and violent, a more tranquil depiction of precipitation comes by way of Chopin’s Prelude in D-flat, Op. 28, No. 15 which also accompanies this Monet well.
主持人：Stacey Rodda 盧廸思
SAINT CECILIA
The first part of a 3 part series on St. Cecilia, the patron saint of music. The series showcases diverse interpretations of music from Baroque grandeur to 21st-century reverence, and looks at a selection of the many visual masterpieces that have been created to honour her.
On this programme:
ART
French artist Gustave Moreau’s stunningly beautiful gouache and watercolor over graphite on woven paper mounted to wood panel; British artist Kate Bunce’s Pre-Raphaelite work in vibrant colours, with detail of medieval and early Renaissance art; one of the Pre-Raphaelite influenced stained glass windows created by British artist Edward Burne-Jones and designer William Morris
MUSIC
Gabriel Jackson’s La Musique - a setting of poems by Elizabeth Bishop and Charles Baudelaire on the transformative power of music; Gerald Finzi’s ceremonial ode For St Cecilia; Benjamin Britten’s response to Auden’s extraordinary imagery in his Hymn to St Cecilia
