Royal College of Music – Final Recital

Outer Parry Room, Wednesday 25th of May at 10.10am

Isamu Nogushi with his sculpture “Undine” (1927)

Guro Pettersen, flute Daniel King-Smith, piano

Carl Reinecke (1824-1910) Sonata for flute and Piano “Undine” op. 167 I. Allegro II. Intermezzo III. Andante IV. Finale Undine (Friedrich de la Motte Fouqué /1811) is a tale inspired by German folklore, which tells the story of a mermaid who falls in love with and marries the knight Hildebrand. By doing so she gains an immortal soul and becomes partially human. However, because of of the treacheries of her uncle Kûhleborn, Lady Berthalda and Hildebrand, she loses this love and is consequently taken back to the water. She only returns to kill Hildebrand with a final embrace on the day he attempts marriage to Lady Berthalda.

_____________ Toru Takemitsu (1930-1996) Itinerant for solo flute (1989) –in memory of Isamu Nogushi Artist Noguchi was an Itinerant throughout his lifetime. Born in USA and raised in Japan he continued his life as a world citizen until death. Takemitsu´s piece serves as a palette-cleanser and a transition between two pillars of the flute repertoire; from romantic to Neo-Classical influence, and between stories from newer and older times.

_____________ Andre Jolivet (1905-1974) Chant de Linos for flute and piano (1944) Linos was the son of Apollo and Psamathe, and was torn to pieces by dogs in early childhood. He was the stimulus for the Linos song, a lamenting and reaping song sung throughout eastern Mediterranean lands by women mourning his death on a dedicated festival each year. Chant de Linos illustrates the three stages of this mourning; A funeral lamentation, loud cries and frantic dance. However, the Linos myth takes on a quite different appearance in two other legends: In Thebes, they said he was son of Amphimarus and the muse Urania. According to myth he was the greatest musician, and Apollo killed him because he challenged the god in song. In the third legend, Herakles kills Linos. As music teacher of the boy Herakles, Linos once chastised his pupil. the boy, in sudden anger, struck his teacher over the head with his lyre and killed him.