Lily Owens flute, Nick Lauener piano
Chant de Linos, André Jolivet 1905-1974
Composed in 1944 as a competition piece for the Paris Conservatoire, this piece flaunts its technical demands within an intricate overlapping of voices, but allows the player space to explore the breadth of its ideas.
Whilst composing Chant de Linos, Jolivet took inspiration from the Greek myth of Linus, a lyre player and singer killed by Heracles for hitting his head with his lyre: Heracles clearly wasn’t happy about that. Used this legend as a starting point Jolivet was also influenced by the rituals of ancient Greece had (and their complicated embodied emotions), as well as dances, laments, and the cries and wails of mourners. All these ideas are strung together by Jolivet’s interest in making music that speaks to people on a spiritual, raw level. Even though there is a lot going on within this piece, the different themes ebb and flow into one another - a lamentation ends in angry howls of grief and a vibrant, raw dance is whittled away to nothing.
Lily Owens is a Cherubim Young Musician who plays on the Cherubim Music Trust's 'David Ganderton - Savile Club' Levit silver flute. Cherubim Music Trust is a charity that loans professional-calibre orchestral instruments to advanced music students in the UK, aged 15-25, who cannot afford one that matches their ability. See cherubimtrust.org/
Aperitif Concert at the Savile Club, December 2023 is a series curated and filmed by Michael Maxwell Steer
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