A & R PANUFNIK Songs and Trios
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Composer or Director: Andrzej Panufnik, Roxanna Panufnik, Andrzej & Roxanna Panufnik
Genre:
Vocal
Label: Signum Classics
Magazine Review Date: 08/2014
Media Format: CD or Download
Media Runtime: 63
Mastering:
DDD
Catalogue Number: SIGCD380

Tracks:
Composition | Artist Credit |
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Love Song |
Andrzej Panufnik, Composer
Andrzej Panufnik, Composer Heather Shipp, Mezzo soprano |
Mine Eye |
Roxanna Panufnik, Composer
Heather Shipp, Mezzo soprano Roxanna Panufnik, Composer |
Sweet Love Remember'd |
Roxanna Panufnik, Composer
Heather Shipp, Mezzo soprano Roxanna Panufnik, Composer |
Modlitwa |
Andrzej & Roxanna Panufnik, Composer
Andrzej & Roxanna Panufnik, Composer Heather Shipp, Mezzo soprano |
That Mighty Heart |
Roxanna Panufnik, Composer
Heather Shipp, Mezzo soprano Roxanna Panufnik, Composer |
Virtue |
Roxanna Panufnik, Composer
Heather Shipp, Mezzo soprano Roxanna Panufnik, Composer |
Dreamscape |
Andrzej Panufnik, Composer
Andrzej Panufnik, Composer Heather Shipp, Mezzo soprano |
Around Three Corners |
Roxanna Panufnik, Composer
Heather Shipp, Mezzo soprano Roxanna Panufnik, Composer |
Piano Trio No 1 |
Andrzej Panufnik, Composer
Andrzej Panufnik, Composer Subito Piano Trio |
Composer or Director: Andrzej & Roxanna Panufnik, Roxanna Panufnik, Andrzej Panufnik
Genre:
Instrumental
Label: BIS
Magazine Review Date: 08/2014
Media Format: Super Audio CD
Media Runtime: 71
Mastering:
DDD
Catalogue Number: BIS2003

Tracks:
Composition | Artist Credit |
---|---|
(12) Miniature Studies |
Andrzej Panufnik, Composer
Andrzej Panufnik, Composer Clare Hammond, Piano |
Pentasonata |
Andrzej Panufnik, Composer
Andrzej Panufnik, Composer Clare Hammond, Piano |
Reflections |
Andrzej Panufnik, Composer
Andrzej Panufnik, Composer Clare Hammond, Piano |
Second Home |
Roxanna Panufnik, Composer
Clare Hammond, Piano Roxanna Panufnik, Composer |
Gloria |
Roxanna Panufnik, Composer
Clare Hammond, Piano Roxanna Panufnik, Composer |
Modlitwa |
Andrzej & Roxanna Panufnik, Composer
Andrzej & Roxanna Panufnik, Composer Clare Hammond, Piano |
Hommage à Chopin, Movement: Three movements |
Andrzej & Roxanna Panufnik, Composer
Andrzej & Roxanna Panufnik, Composer Clare Hammond, Piano |
Author: Ivan Moody
I well remember Andrzej’s ethereal Dreamscape in the vocal version performed by Meriel and Peter Dickinson but like Roxanna, and, it seems, her mother, I find the instrumental version as recorded here much preferable. The disc ends with two piano trios, Around Three Corners by Roxanna, and Andrzej’s Op 1 Trio. The former is enigmatic, the latter heart on sleeve; in fact, it’s a work of utterly arresting beauty that should be standard repertoire. Performances throughout are excellent.
The BIS recording brings together some outstanding piano music by Panufnik senior, stunningly performed by Clare Hammond, and recent work by his daughter as well a couple of ‘retrospective collaborations’, including a solo piano version of the Modlitwa heard on the Signum disc. Andrzej’s dazzling skill and imagination is immediately apparent in the wonderful Twelve Miniature Studies (1947, rev 1955/64) that opens the recital. Why this 20-minute set, full of invention, beauty and excitement, is not in the repertoire of more pianists is a mystery.
Hommage à Chopin is an arrangement by Roxanna of three of Andrzej’s five vocalises of that name for solo piano, and they are truly haunting, as is the transcription of Modlitwa. The late Pentasonata is relatively well known but a performance as vivacious and, at the same time, as attentive to detail as Hammond’s makes one listen to it as though for the first time – BIS’s superb production also plays its part in this. Reflections, from 1968, is grittier but the musical and philosophical preoccupations are essentially the same, and Hammond is as convincing in the earlier style as in the later. Between these two works come Roxanna’s Second Home and Glo. The way Hammond plays the opening repeated notes of Second Home would alone be worth the price of the disc.
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