Hearing colours, seeing sounds
Luminous red, deep blue, ecstatic orange: lots of composers have written music to see as well as hear.
Read more…Take a journey with us on Sinbad's ship, which in Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov’s fairy-tale suite 'Sheherezade' sails on the azure sea. In Messiaen's 'Couleurs de la cité céleste' sounds form an iridescent rainbow. Alexander Scriabin's symphonic poem 'Prometheus' includes a part for a "colour organ", which at the work's New York premiere unleashed a multi-coloured display onto a screen above the orchestra. The Hungarian composer Sándor Veress found inspiration in Paul Klee's canvases, while Tōru Takemitsu saw a Green Japanese garden in his imagination. Dive into a world of sonic colours, conjured up by these and many other composers.