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Stanley Kubrick and David Lean

Director Stanley Kubrick has one of the most interesting relationships with music in film and we begin today with a score which Kubrick used to signify the moment "ape" becomes "man" in 2001: A Space Odyssey. Film and music express a similar idea of man being guided by a higher unseen and unknown power.

After 2001's success, Kubrick was able to borrow from NASA special camera lenses which enabled him to film at the lowest light levels and he made "Barry Lyndon" - after Thackeray's tale of an Irish adventurer in the late 18th century. All the internal shots were lit as naturalistically as possible by candle light and filmed using NASA's lenses, which lends the film a unique ambience.
Ryan O'Neal plays the part of Barry Lyndon, and the movie follows his move up the social ladder and his eventual fall. In one scene Barry Lyndon, comfortable country squire, is standing at the balustrade of his luxurious home looking out at the lush parkland beyond. It looks like Barry Lyndon has reached his life's goal, but as the narrator (Michael Hordern) has already told us moments before, Barry Lyndon came from nothing and he will return to nothing ... and at this moment Kubrick uses the slow movement from Schubert's Trio to catch the mood.

British director David Lean took Noel Coward's one-act play Still Life and transformed it into the 1945 film "Brief Encounter". Trevor Howard and Celia Johnson meet at a railway station and dream about leaving their lives behind and running off together. The slow movement from Rachmaninov's 2nd Piano Concerto captures this doomed love.

2pm
Strauss
Also sprach Zarathustra
North German Radio Symphony Orchestra, Sakari Oramo

2.40pm
Schubert
Piano Trio No. 2 in E flat, D. 929
Vienna Piano Trio

Takemitsu
3 Film Scores for String orchestra
Suisse Romande Orchestra, Kazuki Yamada

3.55pm
Rachmaninov
Piano Concerto No.2
Olli Mustonen (piano), Finish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Sakari Oramo.