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.
THE SURREALISTS AND BOSCH
Composer John Tavener and writer and art critic Edward Lucie-Smith’s collaboration on Three Surrealist Songs, takes us to more works by Magritte, Ernst and Dali with ‘religious themes’, but not associated with the texts: Magritte’s The Annunciation; Ernst’s Pieta; Dali’s Spiritus promptus est, caro vero infirma from the Biblia Sacra series.
To complete the programme one more ‘surrealist’ art work with a 'religious theme' - The Garden of Earthly Delights - the famous Hieronymus Bosch painting in which the Renaissance artist portrays, in a triptych, the innocence of the Garden of Eden, its corruption from Carnal Knowledge, and the retribution of Hell – a triptych full of dreamlike, bizarre visions that heavily inspired modern surrealists. It’s ‘accompanied’ by Michael Berkeley’s work of the same name.

主持人:Stacey Rodda 盧廸思
Mondrian/ Vermeer/ Andriessen
By listening to the featured work with its corresponding artwork in mind, we can appreciate the depth of inspiration that visual art has provided to the music, creating a richer and more all-enveloping experience. The work is Dutch composer Louis Andriessen’s De Stijl - a tribute to the Dutch artistic movement of the same name, particularly the work of Piet Mondrian - a musical image of Piet Mondrian’s 'Composition with Red, Yellow, and Blue' (1927), but exclusively on a conceptual basis. And we continue with highlights from Andriessen’s opera Writing to Vermeer, the 17th-century Dutch painting master who created several works portraying women writing or reading letters