Therese Oulton
Michael Berkeley's guest is Turner Prize-nominated artist Therese Oulton. Her musical choices include Britten, Shostakovich, Wagner, Brecht and Mary Lou Williams.
Thérèse Oulton burst on to the scene in 1984, fresh out of art school, with a highly-praised solo exhibition, which was followed three years later by a nomination for the Turner Prize.
From the very beginning she has challenged the orthodoxies of both abstract and figurative painting. And her recent highly detailed landscapes find beauty even in a damaged, fragile earth, evoking both familiarity and strangeness.
Her work is highly prized by collectors and is in major public collections around the world, including the Tate and the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
Thérèse talks to Michael Berkeley about her passion for Wagner, the physicality of music and painting, and the pleasure of listening to live music. Her music choices include Britten, Shostakovich, Wagner, Brecht and Mary Lou Williams - inspired by the time she spent waitressing at Ronnie Scott's as an art student.
Producer: Jane Greenwood
A Loftus production for BBC Radio 3.
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"Dizzy Gillespie took such interest in me"
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Benjamin Britten
Elegy (Serenade for tenor, horn and strings)
Performer: Radek Baborák. Orchestra: Berliner Philharmoniker. Conductor: Sir Simon Rattle. Singer: Ian Bostridge. -
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Dmitry Shostakovich
Prelude and fugue in A major, Op.87 no.7
Performer: Tatiana Nikolayeva. -
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Mary Lou Williams & Cecil Taylor
Back to the blues
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Richard Wagner
Prelude: Das Rheingold
Orchestra: Bayreuth Festival Orchestra. Conductor: Daniel Barenboim. -
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Kurt Weill
Mack the Knife
Singer: Bertolt Brecht. -
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Olivier Messiaen
Les Ressuscites et le chant de l'etoile Aldebaran (Des Canyons aux etoiles)
Performer: Yvonne Loriod. Ensemble: Ensemble Ars Nova. Conductor: Marius Constant. -
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John Cage
Sonatas XIV and XV (Gemini)
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Laura Cannell
All the Land Ablaze
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