主持人:Stacey Rodda 盧廸思
MAY 2025 FOCUS: FRANCE
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We are back to exploring connections between music and art and in this episode we do that through the works of Czech artist František Kupka connected to J.S. Bach. Kupka had an important part in proliferating abstraction at the beginning of the 20th century and his search for a new artistic language that could transmit intensity and musicality through colours and shapes, made him a true innovator within abstraction.
In this episode we continue our look at Czech artist Frantisek Kupka (1871-1957) and how music influenced his works. The relationship between music and painting became increasingly important to Kupka throughout his career. He drew parallels between the processes of creating music and art, naming a number of his paintings after compositional techniques. He also used music to directly inspire his work, visualizing the rhythms and tones that he heard.
主持人:Stacey Rodda 盧廸思
Music inspired by visual art...
We couple Max Reger's 'In the Play of the Waves' from his Four Tone Poems Op. 128 to Arnold Bocklin's painting 'Playing in the Waves', and Debussy's 'Play of the Waves' from La Mer to Hokusai's 'The Great Wave' (Under the Wave off Kanagawa).
Compared to Debussy’s La Mer written a few years earlier, Reger pursued the flamboyant realm of mythical creatures, but both works have a similar sparkling orchestral character.
We actually take a look at the four Bocklin works that led Reger to compose his atmospheric pictures and take note of Hokusai's inspiration for the whole of Debussy's La Mer.
The connections continue...