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Anthony Green

Michael Berkeley's guest is painter Anthony Green. His musical choices include Charles Trenet, Bach, Wagner, Noel Coward, Beethoven's Emperor Piano Concerto and Eric Idle.

Anthony Green, senior Royal Academician, is one of the UK's most eminent and best-loved figurative painters. His career as an artist has now spanned fifty years, and his brightly coloured, irregularly-shaped paintings and sculptures are exhibited across the world, in galleries including the Royal Academy, the Scottish National Gallery, and the Met in New York. Many of them explore autobiographical themes; in painting after painting he's recorded family life, at home, in bed, making love to his wife even.

In Private Passions, Anthony Green looks back on his life as an artist; he explains the crucial importance of meeting his wife back when they were both students at the Slade - through her, he found his identity as a painter. He talks about watching fashions come and go in art, and explains why he is determined to explore religious subjects in his work, even though he knows it puts him outside the mainstream. And he confesses to being an incorrigible optimist, who loves this life, and fully expects to enjoy the next.

Music choices include Charles Trenet, Bach, Wagner, Noel Coward, Beethoven's Emperor Piano Concerto, and Eric Idle - 'for the coffee breaks in the studio'.

Producer: Elizabeth Burke

A Loftus production for ´óÏó´«Ã½ Radio 3.

To hear previous episodes of Private Passions, please visit http://www.bbc.co.uk/podcasts/series/r3pp/all.

1 hour

Last on

Sun 30 Nov 2014 12:00

Music Played

  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Toccata and Fugue in D minor, BWV565

    Performer: Wayne Marshall.
  • Richard Wagner

    Tannhauser - Overture

    Conductor: Daniel Barenboim. Orchestra: Berlin State Orchestra.
  • Ludwig van Beethoven

    Piano Concerto No.5 in E flat (Emperor): 1st mvt - Allegro

    Conductor: Leonard Bernstein. Performer: Rudolf Serkin. Orchestra: New York Philharmonic.
  • Noël Coward

    Twentieth Century Blues

    Singer: Noël Coward.
  • Arthur Sullivan

    I've got a little list (The Mikado)

    Conductor: Peter Robinson. Singer: Eric Idle. Orchestra: The English National Opera Orchestra.
  • Charles Trenet

    Boum!

    Singer: Charles Trenet.

Broadcast

  • Sun 30 Nov 2014 12:00

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