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
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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.
主持人：Stacey Rodda 盧廸思
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.
