主持人：Stacey Rodda 卢廸思
MAY 2025 FOCUS: FRANCE
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…connecting music to visual arts, literature, film and theatre while discovering the delights of these arts in different parts of the world
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FOCUS: FRANCE
The Culture Show with Mr. Benjamin Cabouat, Consul for Culture, Education and Science in HK and Macao
The Culture Show with Mr. Benjamin Cabouat, Consul for Culture, Education and Science in HK and Macao
The Culture Show with Mr. Benjamin Cabouat, Consul for Culture, Education and Science in HK and Macao
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The Culture Show with Mr. Timo Kantola, Consul General of Finland in Hong Kong
The Culture Show with Mr. Timo Kantola, Consul General of Finland in Hong Kong
The Culture Show with Ms. Alice Fratarcangeli, Director of the Italian Cultural Institute in Hong Kong and Macau
The Culture Show wirh Ms.Klára Jurčová, Consul General of the Czech Republic in Hong Kong
SAINT CECILIA
The first part of a 3 part series on St. Cecilia, the patron saint of music. The series showcases diverse interpretations of music from Baroque grandeur to 21st-century reverence, and looks at a selection of the many visual masterpieces that have been created to honour her.
On this programme:
ART
French artist Gustave Moreau’s stunningly beautiful gouache and watercolor over graphite on woven paper mounted to wood panel; British artist Kate Bunce’s Pre-Raphaelite work in vibrant colours, with detail of medieval and early Renaissance art; one of the Pre-Raphaelite influenced stained glass windows created by British artist Edward Burne-Jones and designer William Morris
MUSIC
Gabriel Jackson’s La Musique - a setting of poems by Elizabeth Bishop and Charles Baudelaire on the transformative power of music; Gerald Finzi’s ceremonial ode For St Cecilia; Benjamin Britten’s response to Auden’s extraordinary imagery in his Hymn to St Cecilia
SAINT CECILIA
This is the 2nd part of a 3 part series inspired by St. Cecilia, the patron saint of music. This episode begins with the beautiful voice of the award-winning countertenor Reginald Mobley and Tis Nature’s Voice from Purcell’s Hail Bright Cecilia. Prominent works like Purcell's, celebrating music's divine power, alongside later pieces such as Gounod's St. Cecilia Mass and James MacMillan's Cecilia Virgo, make for a showcase of diverse interpretations from Baroque grandeur to 21st-century reverence. Along with this selection of music, we will continue our exploration of the many visual masterpieces that have been created to honour her.
主持人：Stacey Rodda 卢廸思
ROSSETTI, LEIGHTON AND THE HARP
The visual arts have been influenced by music and musical instruments for as long as we can imagine. In this programme, we look at the unique aesthetic beauty of the harp featured in ever so many paintings.
La Ghirlandata (1873) by Dante Gabriel Rossetti is incredibly beautiful. In it, he uses deep, rich greens and golds for the woman’s robe and the lush foliage that surrounds her. Rossetti’s subject looks directly at the viewer while playing a gilded harp. Musical instruments figure prominently in Rossetti’s work. His Morning Music captures an intimate domestic scene complete with a musician playing a type of lute.
Edmund Blair Leighton’s The End of The Song (c. 1902) depicts one of the world’s greatest legends - the tragic tale of the forbidden but undying love between the Cornish knight Tristan and the Irish princess Isolde. In this painting, Tristan, a gifted harpist, has just serenaded his beloved Isolde with a song of love.
You can imagine the music to come…
