Art and Music

 

Turner

 

Written by Hugh Griffith

 

Contains 1 CD +  24 page booklet. Playing Time: 74:02

                           

The ART AND MUSIC series investigates the musical environment of great artists such as Leonardo da Vinci and Claude Monet.  While they were painting, who were the leading composers and what music would they have listened to? Were they directly affected by music?

 

Each CD offers a generous selection of music from the period.  Also included is an extended essay on the artist and associated composers, and a useful chronology of the life and works of the composer.

 

TURNER

 

In the final period of his life, the paintings of J.M.W Turner (1775 – 1851) baffled his public with the daring originality of their colours.  But by then he was already a great British institution and revered as the greatest landscape painter of the age.  On this CD, the world of Turner is given a musical perspective with a carefully chosen selection of pieces by the finest composers of his time.  Inside, Hugh Griffith provides explanatory notes on his life and musical environment.

 

MUSIC: J.C. Bach, Haydn, Field, Weber, Paganini, Mendelssohn, Berlioz, Chopin

 

Naxos 8558116