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Guests from all walks of life discuss their musical loves and hates

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Private Passions: Christopher Le Brun

07/06/2015

Christopher Le Brun

BBC Radio 3 - Private Passions, Christopher Le Brun

Michael Berkeley meets artist Christopher Le Brun at the Royal Academy summer exhibition.

Michael Berkeley's guest is president of the Royal Academy of Arts Christopher Le Brun, who gives him a tour of the 2015 summer exhibition and shares his musical passions.

The President of the Royal Academy of Arts, Christopher Le Brun, gives Michael Berkeley a tour of this year's Summer Exhibition and shares his musical and artistic passions. 

The RA Summer Exhibition is the largest open submission exhibition in the world, and Christopher shares the excitement in the days running up to the opening as 1000 pictures - selected from 10,000 - are hung in the brightly-painted galleries. 

An acclaimed painter, sculptor and print-maker Christopher Le Brun has work in public and private collections around the world. He is passionate about the music of the late 19th and 20th centuries, and his work has frequently been inspired by music. He takes Michael to the RA library to show him a series of etchings inspired by Wagner, and we hear music by William Walton that has also stimulated his work.

Christopher's other choices include music by Schoenberg, Poulenc and Django Reinhardt, and he shares the nasty surprise he once gave his mother when she sat down at the piano to play a Grieg nocturne.

Producer: Jane Greenwood

A Loftus production for BBC Radio 3.

Live music and the arts: broadcasts more live music than any other radio network. Classical music is its core. Genres include world and new music, jazz, speech and drama.

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