主持人：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
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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
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
THE SOLITARY CELLIST
We look at three colourful works (in the literal sense): The Cellist (1909) by Amedeo Modigliani; The Cellist (Portrait of Upaupa Scheklud) (1894) by Paul Gauguin; and The Cellist (Serevitsch) (c.1916) by Chaim Soutine. We will hear extracts from Evaristo Felice Dall'Abaco’s 11 Capricci for Solo Violoncello; Theme and Variations in D minor for solo cello by Sibelius; and Shchedrin’s Russian Fragments and Alfred Schnittke’s Improvisation for solo cello – all rarely heard works.
