Euchar Gravina: Once upon a place

Some of the works on the programme draw on real locations – Cerrone’s Double Happiness collects sentimental souvenirs from a trip across Italy and Harding’s Aepyornis uses the sounds of Madagascar to transport us to an imagined prehistoric land.

Janulytė’s Psalms reflect on LSO St Luke’s own Baroque church history engaging with music of ritual and gathering. Sabat’s Backyard Summer Patio reminds us of the universal and the unspecified: any patio, any summer, anywhere. Similarly, Lonsdale’s enchanting Breathing Skies and The Distant Bells of Fulfilment, featuring the New London Chamber Choir, opens a window onto something just out of reach.

The concert closes with Gravina’s new work, drawing on a diary of sonic and musical artefacts gathered from Malta. Here memory of place is not fixed, but produced as a ritual being remade, echoing into the unconscious.