主持人：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.
Manet and Music
Through his work, Manet contributed significantly to the interplay between visual art and music. He demonstrated that the two art forms could inspire and inform each other, creating a richer, more immersive artistic experience.
We will look at, and hear:
Madame Manet at the Piano perhaps playing a piece dedicated to her – Emmanuel Chabrier’s Impromptu.
Music in the Tuileries Gardens where Manet as ‘flâneur’, painted a significant number of his friends, among them: other painters, writers and composers. Jacques Offenbach is pictured and we’ll hear highlights from his Gaîté Parisienne.
Masked Ball at the Opera pictures the same location that Wagner’s Tannhäuser had its Paris premiere in 1861. Having to include the Paris Opera’s request for ballet music in the opera, he obliged, but put it in the wrong place. That created quite a stir. We’ll hear it in its 1861 version.
Caillebotte & Caillebotte
In this episode we are going to look at only one painting - Young Man Playing the Piano (1876) by Gustave Caillebotte. Caillebotte was considered an Impressionist, but painted in a more realistic manner, his family and friends, the bourgeois pedestrians strolling in his neighbourhood, the workers who came to his house... This painting, with its exquisite portrayal of light coming through the window, pictures his brother Martial - a composer whose music we will hear in this episode – a unique piece of words and music that is absolutely rare and stunning - Une Journée.
主持人：Stacey Rodda 盧廸思
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.
