a virtue also from early childhood daniel hope does about $130.00 concerts a year as a soloist and as a guest conductor he talks about music on his own radio show he writes about it he's deeply political and he even calls himself a musical activist in the learn a lot more about him right after this. daniel hope one of his regular concerts in berlin playing an instrument that was made in 1742. for hope history comes alive through music. at a recent concert he spoke of his german jewish grandparents. my family came from berlin and they had to leave poland in 1038 so for me it's about going back into into history more than politics is about history i think in remembering history and of course there are parallels between you know then and now but i think it's also important not to forget. this song from the

1938 is called kind of high much me no more homeland. it's a song with great relevance to hope's own story grandparents lived in a mansion in berlin before it was seized by the nazis. the documentary the sound of life tells of hope's decision to move to berlin a few years ago. was born in south africa where his grandparents lived in exile. but his father was a vocal opponent of apartheid and so the family was forced to move again to england . their hopes mother worked for the famed violinist you hoody men or women who took young daniel under his wing even though the boy was sometimes rebellious he was once caught secretly practicing mendelssohn when he was supposed to be playing. today daniel hope can play whatever he likes wherever. he works he's in demand that

concert houses around the world. could keep on listening for ever but he has joined me in the studio in the flesh daniel hope for welcome thank you for coming in and congratulations on the new album thank you very much number 17 then we will talk about that in just a moment but 1st i want to know as a self-proclaimed musical activist explain to us what you mean by that and what you what is your mission where you know i believe that music can reach people very early on when i was 13 i took part in something called live music now which you are to many and created giving young people to go into old age homes or hospitals or to play for people with handicaps and to learn that music can reach people has

a social conscience so i believe that and i've been doing that now for 30 years putting on concerts or playing for people in certain circumstances over remembering people in history i think music has that great power remembering people in history that's literally what you're doing with the period that you've chosen to focus on for your new album belly pucks of the belly pack obviously the from the end of the franco-prussian war 971 up to the outbreak of world war one in 1914 that's 40 years that have fascinated you for a very very long time tell us a bit more about that period and how it was expressed in music i have been obsessed with benefit for a long time and it's is of a period in history we sweet talk about it being a letter thick and beautiful but of course there was a lot that was not there was a huge struggle of poverty of rich against poor me i'm evil in your future of evil and yes i'm a great creativity in music in painting in art in science and i wanted to trace with this album some of that extraordinary music the journey that it may. made from

the s. and seventy's and so it is since the breakdown of humanity the 1st world war and try to get a bit of a flavor of the atmosphere we do have a short expert excerpts and i am going to i've chosen one of you're one of the ones you told me was one of our favorites so let's have a short listen to sean bags. and got. me on are. bringing us bringing your violin in. and you playing a quaternary violin from 742 if i'm not mistaken and there's a very distinct story behind how you got it yes i got a phone call one day out of the blue from from a lady and she was looking to buy an instrument as an investment and she said if

you're interested we'll buy your choice of instrument you can use any one you want that's not the kind of offer you get every day and i was able to look around and i found this instrument a quinary de jesus 742 the x. lipinski i think it was a great virtue as in the 19th century the rival of agony he'd beat fagen in the in the violin jules in that time. and so when i marry a bit the real rival or the student of the students he was not as famous in the day no successful and now his instruments are even more so it's often because he didn't make as many it's a gorgeous sense ron i'm just very lucky to have it and it does sound wonderful i'd love to hear you play a short piece thank you see the something from the album something just out of your out of the blue.

if you let it go i would love to sing along and personally i think i have to tell you thank you so much for bringing that in so that we can just hear the sounds we heard in the piece about music bringing history to life and i know that you're very mindful. of how music can help change this culture of remembrance that we like to nurture in germany you were awarded the federal cross of merit for that in 2017 and you're sensitized to this city obviously by your own background and by your great mentor you who the men i'd like to hear how would you describe the influence that he had on you as such it from such an early age where he was an extraordinary man incredibly generous and one of course loved music and he loved bringing music to children and so when i expressed an interest as a 4 year old encouraged to help me to find a teacher and not encouragement i think is the most important thing you know for parents for friends nowadays if a kid is interested in playing an instrument all singing or dancing to try to

encourage if you can because it opens a whole world it opens the soul really. you are of course busy enough with your 2 orchestras your zurich obviously but also one of the guest conductors at san francisco. but you also just took up the president of the beethoven house in bonn very timely just a couple of days ago i guess for the beethoven year tell us about your connection to beethoven and why he is so incredibly important for musicians you know i think for any musician beethoven is kind of like the mount everest we we feel him we love him we want to conquer him that's what we do and he's so much part of our d.n.a. he's inspired me since i was a little boy since i had his violin concerto when i was 4 years old and the chance now to work with the bass over the house is the president it's the leading institution in the world 80 scholars we have the best collection of his manuscripts we have his instruments even his violin is amazing and to help take this journey

with beethoven now into the next millennium he's i've heard it said a number of instruments. musicians have told me that he's one of those composers that keeps you on your toes all the time you never really quite a master of his music. i think it's just because he was so far ahead of his time in the same way in polk you have these extraordinary figures that were able to break through boundaries beethoven broke through boundaries like nobody else he was just way out there and so he takes you with them and you do your best to hang on and sometimes you feel you have a good ride sometimes you think i could have done better always a challenge well you're touring now with the new album belly pok with serious orchestral issue all the best for that and thank you so much for coming in thank you for having doesn't speak with me today here daniel hope thank you. well now on to one of the most important and most expensive living artists in fact a work by british painter david hockney just went under the hammer at sotheby's in

london this week a celebrated pop art painting the splash sold for 27400000 euros. it's one of a trio and considered one of the standout pop images of the 20th century by our as yet no which is why the opportunity to see his works up close should of course be seized without delay like a seeing major retrospective currently on in hamburg. the grand canyon painted in radiant color. on the right story you would like a college who expects the bayani be allowed to send it to us it's a pleasure beautiful very very nice to send you a kit that of course take the gaze that speaks for you and such still can't draw we're not going to thank you of the artist's friends david hockney pain central's whatever moves him and asked don't so he's entire life. this fast signature and

david talking is what's fascinating in hockney's work is the never ending curiosity he's always looking for new ways of expressing himself and what occupies him said one point it's perspectives at another it's capturing time for relationships so it's those various facets of his work are also shown in the media he uses oil paintings drawings graphic works photography book he takes us along with him in this exhibition and each room is something new showing new aspects of his one. aspect sun softens and the young artist had a beginning of the sixty's harmony shifted between concrete and abstract art. a turning point was his 1st trip to new york in $1061.00 aged $24.00 indo sketches he shows of the indirectly erotic experiences in gay clubs hockney could only burp and me as a homosexual because at the time it was still punishable by law. through.

one of his means of expression. creating paintings based on photographs here his poetry 2 of his friends say a nazi cockney turns the pictures into his version of reality to 2 lovebirds to not look at each other but gaze out to tell us the artist even allowed in 7 inside joke he painted one of his own pictures on the living room wall. hockney's work is crazy to look at that perspective doesn't seem right but that's intention. for david hockney all perception is composed from different perspectives and he still paints the same way even at the age of 82 but after all his motto he's only when the ice stops moving are you dead. saying it and

painting it like a season david hockney is showing in hamburg at the would say the const form until may the 10th that's all for now so until next time all the best from myself and the team here in berlin and a few dozen. been. going

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