France Musique’s morning show is a ritual for French musicians: a long table, excerpts, anecdotes, records spinning before noon. When Yan Levionnois sits for « La Matinale avec Yan Levionnois, quatuor et plus si affinités », the title already tells the story — quartet first, then whatever affinities the conversation discovers.
Levionnois belongs to a generation of cellists trained to move between solo, chamber, and orchestral worlds without hierarchy. On air he can pivot from quartet rhetoric — inner voices, bow weight, shared pulse — to the wider map of collaborations that now includes festival seasons across Europe.
The Syros International Music Festival programmes him because chamber music is its backbone: musicians who listen, who can lead and follow in the same phrase. This broadcast is a preview of that ethos — not a highlight reel, but an hour of how he thinks about repertoire and partners.
Expect discussion of recent and upcoming projects (check the episode page for the exact works played). The tone is accessible: France Musique explains without dumbing down, Levionnois answers without jargon.
Listen via the link above before his Syros dates — you will hear why critics and colleagues describe his playing as both structurally clear and vocally generous, a cellist who treats the instrument as dialogue, not monologue.
