Heather Phillipson
Michael Berkeley’s guest is the artist Heather Phillipson.
Private Passions · BBC Radio 3
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Show Notes
Michael Berkeley’s guest is the artist Heather Phillipson whose giant swirl of cherry-topped, fly-blown whipped cream has recently been installed on the fourth plinth in Trafalgar Square.
Heather was a serious classical musician in her teens, and often uses music she’s composed and performed in her work.
She talks to Michael about music she’s loved since her childhood, including a Mozart symphony and Prokofiev’s Peter and the Wolf; a radical opera by Robert Ashley from the 1980s that has had a profound influence on her work; piano music by Grieg which reminds her of her grandmother; and the soaring emotional impact of Beethoven’s Piano Concerto No 5.
Produced by Jane Greenwood A Loftus Media production for BBC Radio 3.