Music, Romanticism & the Sublime
In this three-part series Michael Lee explores the rich imaginative idealism that informed so much music in the Romantic Era.
Sometime between the 1780s and the 1820s something changed forever in European culture, and nowhere was this more apparent than in music. It was now possible to imagine that music itself could express ideas, and help people understand-or at least experience-something of the world around them. In this series, Michael Lee explores the changing world of music in the Romantic Era and its transcendent ideal: the sublime. Whether recreating the noise of revolution, challenging performers to new heights of virtuosity, or exploring the inner world of the imagination, music would never be the same again.
Episode 1: The Revolutionary Sublime: Imagining the sounds of chaos and change, Haydn, Cherubini, Beethoven, & Berlioz.
Presenter : Michael Lee
Produced by Olga Buckley and Eoin O Kelly
RTÉ lyric fm, Sunday 16th January, 9pm-10pm