Utwory na płycie:

• Private Joe: Letter 1
• Private Joe: And when I die
• Private Joe: The Letter
• Private Joe: From Albert to Ba
• Private Joe: Letter 2
• Canto
• Letters from Burma: Aung-ze Pa
• Letters from Burma: Young bird
• Letters from Burma: Thazin
• Letters from Burma: Kintha Dan
• Hora Bessarabia
• Cantator and Amanda
• Second Home
• Heartfelt: Uzbek processional
• Heartfelt: Lament for a Bulgar

Private Joe
Canto
Letters from Burma
Hora Bessarabia
Cantator and Amanda
Second Home
Heartfelt

Since Westminster Mass (2000) established Roxanna Panufnik’s firm place among today’s leading British composers, she has often been celebrated for her choral music. Her instrumental and chamber works, however, are equally striking, filled with dazzling imagination and poetic lightness of touch. Her latest album Heartfelt encompasses compassion, tragedy and irresistible humour, while demonstrating her passion for exploring diverse musical cultures, from East Sussex to Myanmar.

Featuring a stellar line-up of leading British soloists (including soprano Mary Bevan, pianist Charles Owen and baritone Roderick Williams) and led by the Sacconi Quartet, the title work includes a musical translation of the heartbeat of a young European Brown Bear named Albie: captured by a digital stethoscope, Bristol Zoological Society’s Wild Place Project was generously able to send Panufnik a recording of Albie’s heartbeat whilst he underwent a small surgical procedure, the anaesthetic possibly resembling the bear’s hibernation. Albie himself is pictured on the album’s front cover.

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Private Joe, Heartfelt, Canto and Hora Bessarabia recorded in Saffron Hall, Saffron Walden, Essex from 21st to 23rd July 2020. Other works recorded in All Saints Church, Durham Road, London from 5th to 7th March 2020.