Words and Music

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A journey of discovery, weaving music with poetry and prose read by leading actors.

A weekly journey of discovery, weaving together a range of music with poetry and prose read by leading actors.

Words and Music: Pictures at an Exhibition

Pictures at an Exhibition

BBC Radio 3 - Words and Music, Pictures at an Exhibition

A programme celebrating the inspiration we find in galleries and museums as they re-open.

From poems by WH Auden and Ben Okri to music from Mussorgsky and Ruth Gipps, with readings performed by actors Graham Seed and Lara Sawalha, celebrating museums as they re-open.

Drop off for spies, meeting place for lovers, or gallery openings which are part of the social whirl - the readings in today's Words and Music range from John le Carré and Julian Barnes to poems inspired by artworks from, among others, Percy Shelley, Elizabeth Jennings, Ben Okri, WH Auden - also contemporary poet Sarah Howe reads a poem inspired by a piece from the Liverpool Museum as part of the TIDE project. The main readers are Graham Seed and Lara Sawalha, and the music includes pieces inspired by art and museums from Modest Mussorgsky's sequence which gives the programme its title to Puccini's painter Mario Cavaradossi in Tosca, to other representations of paintings by the likes of Ruth Gipps, Ottorino Respighi, Cole Porter, and music by Leonardo Vinci (not the painter, but a good enough artistic pun), among others. Public galleries and museums in England are due to re-open later this week and commercial art galleries are already staging exhibitions. 

Producer: Juan Carlos Jaramillo

You can find out more about the TIDE project http://www.tideproject.uk/  

On Free Thinking in the coming weeks you can hear discussions about some of the exhibitions opening including Alice in Wonderland at the V&A, James Ensor at the Serpentine Gallery, Jean Dubuffet at the Barbican and already broadcast- a discussion featuring the portraits of Thomas Lawrence at the Holburne Museum Bath and a conservator working on Barbara Hepworth's art ahead of the exhibition opening at the Hepworth Wakefield.

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