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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'.

1 hour

Last on

Sun 13 Nov 2011 12:00

Music Played

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    Beata viscera

    Performers: The Hilliard Ensemble/Dir Paul Hillier (David James – countertenor)

    • ECM 8377512.
  • William Byrd

    Agnus Dei' from 'Mass for Four Voices

    Performers: Choir of King’s College, Cambridge/Sir David Willcocks

    • DECCA 4336752.
  • John Dowland

    Flow My Tears

    Performers: Alfred Deller (counter tenor), Desmond Dupré (lute)

    • HARMONIA MUNDI HM90215.
  • Trad

    The Border Widow's Lament

    Performers: June Tabor, Huw Warren (piano)

    • TOPIC TSCD543.
  • ANOHNI and the Johnsons

    Hope There's Someone

    Performers: Antony & The Johnsons

    • ROUGH TRADE RTRADCD223.
  • Trad

    The Snow it melts the Soonest

    Performers: Anne Briggs

    • TOPIC TSCD7078.
  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    'Sarabande' from English Suite no 2 in A Minor BWV 807

    Performers: Murray Perahia (piano)

    • SONY CLASSICAL SK60277.
  • Grieg/Emanuel Geibel

    'One day, my thought' from Six Songs Op 48

    Performers: Anne Sofie Von Otter (mezzo soprano), Bengt Forsberg (piano)

    • DG4375212.

Broadcast

  • Sun 13 Nov 2011 12:00

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