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The Music behind Paintings, Posters and Album Covers

Composer Anna Clyne explores the influences of Shostakovich on Guyanese artist Aubrey Williams, Boogie Woogie Blues on Piet Mondrian and Jewish music on Chagall.

Grammy-nominated composer Anna Clyne is fascinated by the relationship between art and music. In this series she explores the stories, imagery, and colour of some of her favourite music and art and how one inspires the other.

In this final episode, Anna is our tour guide through an imaginary gallery, full of visual art and the music that inspired it.

We start with the strongest images evoked by music, those in our minds when we listen. In the mind of Guyanese artist Aubrey Williams, Shostakovich's music was 'humanity in sound'. He illustrated this in 30 oil paintings and as Anna describes one of these works titled 'Shostakovich 6th Quartet, Opus 101鈥�, we hear the corresponding music. She continues with Boogie Woogie Blues and its influence on the Dutch painter Piet Mondrian and discovers how traditional Jewish music from the childhood of artist Marc Chagall played a part in his art. We end our tour with musical merchandise and the provocative imagery in the posters and album covers advertising music by Richard Strauss and The Velvet Underground; images that tease the audience visually as the music does aurally.

Presented by Anna Clyne
Produced by Laura Metcalfe

59 minutes

Last on

Sun 22 Jan 2023 23:00
大象传媒 Radio 3

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Music Played

  • Anna Clyne

    DANCE: I. when you're broken open

    Performer: Inbal Segev. Orchestra: London Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Marin Alsop.
    • Anna Clyne: DANCE - Edward Elgar: Cello Concerto.
    • AVIE Records.
    • 1.

  • Dmitry Shostakovich

    String Quartet No. 6 in G Major Op. 101 (1st mvt)

    Ensemble: Emerson String Quartet.
    • Shostakovich: The String Quartets.
    • Deutsche Grammophon (DG).
    • 21.

  • Trad.

    Kale Bazetsn (Khasidic Dance)

    Composer: Dave Tarras. Performer: Itzhak Perlman. Ensemble: Klezmer Conservatory Band.
    • Perlman plays Klezmer.
    • Warner Classics.
    • 15.

  • Ludwig van Beethoven

    Violin Sonata No 9 in A major, Op 47, 'Kreutzer' (3rd mvt)

    Performer: Viktoria Mullova. Performer: Kristian Bezuidenhout.
    • Beethoven Violin Sonatas 3 & 9.
    • Onyx.
    • 6.

  • Lionel Hampton

    Hamp's Boogie Woogie

    Composer: Milt Buckner.
    • Flying Home.
    • Life Series.
    • 16.

  • Jason Moran

    The Way I See It

    Performer: Jason Moran.

  • Emily Peasgood

    The Hop

    Performer: Emily Peasgood.

  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Musical Offering, BWV 1079

    Performer: Alan Feinberg.
    • Fugue State.
    • Steinway & Sons.

  • Richard Strauss

    Dance of the Seven Veils (Salome)

    Orchestra: Chicago Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Fritz Reiner.
    • Strauss: Scenes from Elektra Salome.
    • RCA.
    • 4.

  • Lou Reed

    Femme Fatale

    Lyricist: Lou Reed. Singer: Nico. Ensemble: The Velvet Underground.
    • The Velvet Underground & Nico.
    • Polydor.

  • John Lennon

    Yellow Submarine

    Composer: Paul McCartney. Ensemble: The Beatles.
    • Yellow Submarine.
    • EMI Catalogue.

  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Sonata for Violin Solo No.1 in G minor (2nd mvt)

    Performer: Richard Tognetti.
    • Bach: Sonatas & Partitas For Solo Violin.
    • Australian Broadcasting Corp (ABC).
    • 2.

Broadcast

  • Sun 22 Jan 2023 23:00
    大象传媒 Radio 3