Episodes
| Title | First Broadcast | Comments |
|---|---|---|
| Colour | 20230115 | Grammy-nominated composer Anna Clyne is fascinated by the relationship that exists 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 second episode, we delve into the deep hues of colour that exist in music. Anna describes how bright yellows, oranges and reds in the work of American artist Mark Rothko inspired her own orchestral work Color Field. She considers our unique experiences of colour and music and explores how synaesthesia contributed to the music of Miles Davis, Alexander Scriabin and Duke Ellington. We hear why the viola evokes the colour purple for Grammy-winning composer Joan Tower and what made Estonian composer Arvo Part describe listeners of his music as prisms', dividing white light into the full colour spectrum. Presented by Anna Clyne Produced by Laura Metcalfe Anna Clyne explores how music and art directly inspire each other. |
| Music Inspired, By Art | 20230108 | Grammy-nominated composer Anna Clyne is fascinated by the relationship that exists 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 first episode, Anna describes how pencil sketches worked their way into Caroline Shaw's Pulitzer prize-winning Partita for 8 Voices, and the importance of a black-and-white print to Rachmaninov's starkly evocative Isle of the Dead. Anna also considers Debussy's La Mer, how he musically illustrated the great waves of the sea and why he printed Japanese art onto his original score. We discover how Jackson Pollock's paint splatters have encouraged the American jazz saxophonist Jane Ira Bloom to paint with sound and finally, we break out of the picture frame with music by Errollyn Wallen. Presented by Anna Clyne Produced by Laura Metcalfe Anna Clyne explores how music and art directly inspire each other. |
| The Music Behind Paintings, Posters And Album Covers | 20230122 | 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', 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 Anna Clyne explores how music and art directly inspire each other. |