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Front Row: Howard Hodgkin remembered; Imogen Cooper; Edward Albee

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09/03/2017

Howard Hodgkin remembered; Imogen Cooper; Edward Albee

BBC Radio 4 - Front Row, Howard Hodgkin remembered; Imogen Cooper; Edward Albee

Classical pianist Imogen Cooper plays live in the studio.

Painter and printmaker Howard Hodgkin remembered, pianist Imogen Cooper performs live, and we discuss playwright Edward Albee.

The death was announced today of the artist Sir Howard Hodgkin at the age of 84. Artist Maggi Hambling and art critic Andrew Graham-Dixon remember the man who was described today as 'one of the great artists and colourists of his generation' by Tate director Sir Nicholas Serota.

Classical pianist Imogen Cooper is renowned for her recordings of works by Brahms, the Schumanns, and Chopin. Her latest CD explores the world of another great romantic, Franz Liszt, and places him alongside another giant, Richard Wagner. She explains why she put the two together and performs the music of each, live in the studio.

As two of the late Edward Albee's greatest plays open in the West End, starring Imelda Staunton, Conleth Hill, Damian Lewis and Sophie Okonedo, Kirsty talks to directors James Macdonald (Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf) and Ian Rickson (The Goat) about the playwright.

Presenter: Kirsty Lang
Producer: Hannah Robins.

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