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Colours

Iain Burnside investigates how composers have explored ideas of colour in their music. Music includes Michael Torke's Colour Music, plus Bach, Bliss and Scriabin.

"Colours"

Can you hear a colour? Today, dipping into music from the Renaissance to the present, Iain Burnside looks at how composers have explored ideas of colour in their work. The journey takes us from the 16th century Field of the Cloth of Gold to Michael Torke's Colour Music; and along the way there'll be contribution from Bach, Bliss, Scriabin and many others.

Producer: Lyndon Jones
Email: sundaymorning@bbc.co.uk
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2 hours

Last on

Sun 28 Feb 2010 10:00
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Music Played

  • Nina Simone

    Little Girl Blue

    Performer: Nina Simone (vocal, piano)

    • Charly.

  • Arthur Bliss

    A Colour Symphony, 1st movement "Purple"

    Performer: 大象传媒 National Orchestra of Wales Performer: Richard Hickox (conductor)

    • CHAN10380.

  • Olivier Messiaen

    Couleurs de la Cit茅 C茅leste - extract (opening)

    Performer: Yvonne Loriod (piano) Performer: Orchestre du Domaine Musicale Performer: P Boulez (conductor)

    • SONY SMK68332.

  • Louis Couperin

    Les folies fran莽oises, ou Les dominos

    Performer: Alan Cuckston (harpsichord)

    • Naxos 8550461.

  • Camille Saint鈥怱a毛ns

    The Yellow Princess (Overture)

    Performer: Swiss Italian Orchestra Performer: Francis Travis (conductor)

    • Chandos 9837.

  • James Rhodes

    En blanc et noir

    Performer: Jean-Philippe Collard / Michel Beroff (pianos)

    • EMI CDM 7631562.

  • Michael Torke

    Green

    Performer: Baltimore Symphony Orchestra Performer: David Zinman (conductor)

    • Argo 4330712.

  • Franz Schubert

    Das Lied im Grunen, D917

    Performer: Elly Ameling (soprano) Performer: Dalton Baldwin (piano)

    • Philips 4208702.

  • Jean Sibelius

    The Swan of Tuonela

    Performer: Ondine Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra Performer: Mikko Franck (cond)

    • Ondine ODE9532.

  • Antonio Vivaldi

    Concerto a due Cori in B flat RV583, 1st Movement

    Performer: Giuliano Carmignola (violin) Performer: Venice Baroque Orchestra Performer: Andrea Marcon (conductor)

    • ARCHIV 4748952.

  • Johannes Brahms

    Klavierst眉ck in B min Op 119 No 1

    Performer: Radu Lupu (piano)

    • Decca 4175992.

  • Gy枚rgy Ligeti

    Atmosph猫res for orchestra

    Performer: Southwest German Radio Symphony Orchestra Baden Baden Performer: Ernest Bour (conductor)

    • Wergo WER 60162-50.

  • George Gershwin

    Rhapsody in Blue

    Performer: Columbia Symphony Orchestra Performer: Leonard Bernstein (piano, conductor)

    • Sony SMK47259.

  • Charles Villiers Stanford

    The Bluebird

    Performer: Cambridge Singers Performer: John Rutter (cond)

    • Collegium Records CSCD 505.

Broadcast

  • Sun 28 Feb 2010 10:00
    大象传媒 Radio 3