Garry Fabian Miller
Michael Berkeley's guest is artist Garry Fabian Miller. He selects music from Perotin, Byrd, Bach, Grieg and Dowland, plus June Tabor, Anne Briggs, and Antony and the Johnsons.
Michael Berkeley's guest is the artist Garry Fabian Miller, whose work uses early photographic techniques to experiment with the nature and possibilities of light as both medium and subject. Since 1992 he has explored a more abstract form of picture-making by passing light through coloured glass and liquid and cut paper forms, using very long exposure. These unusual methods - a form of camera-less photography - create luminous realities that shift from pure abstraction to imaginary landscapes, and the results are usually presented as a series of images.
Garry Fabian Miller has exhibited widely throughout the world. In the UK, his work has been seen at the V & A Museum in London, Tate Liverpool, Newlyn, Edinburgh and Lincoln, among other venues. He is a regular exhibitor at the HackelBury Gallery in London, where his current exhibition, 'That I Might See', runs until mid-December.
The themes of light and darkness also permeate his musical choices, which range from a piece by the medieval composer Perotin, through Tudor vocal music by Byrd and Dowland to traditional music sung by June Tabor and Anne Briggs. There's also the Sarabande from Bach's English Suite No.2 in A minor, BWV 807, a songs by Edvard Grieg, sung by Anne Sofie von Otter, and Antony & The Johnsons with 'Hope there's Someone'.
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Beata viscera
Performers: The Hilliard Ensemble/Dir Paul Hillier (David James – countertenor)
- ECM 8377512.
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William Byrd
Agnus Dei' from 'Mass for Four Voices
Performers: Choir of King’s College, Cambridge/Sir David Willcocks
- DECCA 4336752.
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John Dowland
Flow My Tears
Performers: Alfred Deller (counter tenor), Desmond Dupré (lute)
- HARMONIA MUNDI HM90215.
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Trad
The Border Widow's Lament
Performers: June Tabor, Huw Warren (piano)
- TOPIC TSCD543.
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ANOHNI and the Johnsons
Hope There's Someone
Performers: Antony & The Johnsons
- ROUGH TRADE RTRADCD223.
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Trad
The Snow it melts the Soonest
Performers: Anne Briggs
- TOPIC TSCD7078.
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Johann Sebastian Bach
'Sarabande' from English Suite no 2 in A Minor BWV 807
Performers: Murray Perahia (piano)
- SONY CLASSICAL SK60277.
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Grieg/Emanuel Geibel
'One day, my thought' from Six Songs Op 48
Performers: Anne Sofie Von Otter (mezzo soprano), Bengt Forsberg (piano)
- DG4375212.
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