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Track(s) taken from SIGCD380

Modlitwa

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1990-1999
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Heather Shipp (mezzo-soprano), Subito Piano Trio
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Recording details: August 2013
All Saints' Church, East Finchley, London, United Kingdom
Produced by Adrian Peacock
Engineered by Mike Hatch
Release date: May 2014
Total duration: 4 minutes 32 seconds
 

Reviews

'This must be a first: a father-daughter disc in which both are the composers. The centenary of Andrzej Panufnik (1914-1991) is being celebrated this year. It’s a wonderful opportunity to revisit his delicate, jewel-like music, at once appealing, rigorous and poignant. Today the name Panufnik is as frequently associated with Roxanna, who has masterminded this disc in tribute to her father. It includes a piano trio by each, songs by each, and one song—Modlitwa—which he started and she, years after his death, completed. Love Song, a setting of Philip Sidney which Andrzej dedicated to his wife, Camilla, makes a heartfelt opening. Dreamscape, a vocalise here played by cello and piano, dates from the same period. This is intensely personal music-making, beautifully performed' (The Observer)

'The centenary of the birth of Andrzej Panufnik is marked in his adopted country by special performances and recordings, including these songs and trios by the composer who was born in Warsaw at the start of the First World War, and by his daughter. The father's songs to fine English texts—Philip Sidney, Shakespeare—are shot through with melancholy, even when celebrating love, Roxanna, born in London, marvels at her city as Wordsworth did, from Westminster Bridge in That Mighty Heart, and her delight in her life bubbles through her piano trio Around Three Corners. But Andrzej's cello vocalise, Virtue, and his early Piano Trio Op 1 steal the show' (The Independent on Sunday)
In 1990 the Polish poet Jerzy Pietrkiewicz, a close friend of my father’s, showed him a two-versed prayer, Modlitwa (1990/99), that he had written to the Virgin of Skempe. My father set the second verse and left the first verse to be narrated, saying that he didn’t want to obscure these beautiful words with music. Instead, he gave them a beautifully poignant and simple background, over which they could be recited. In 1999, a commission from the Lebanese Al Bustan Festival for a ‘Polish-themed piece’ coincided with Jerzy asking me to add to the song by setting the narrated words to music (which was by then 8 years after my father’s death). It was a very difficult decision to make but a dream about my father, encouraging me to improvise with him at the piano, persuaded me that it was all right to do it. The piano introduction is by my father, my part begins with the voice entry ‘Z jeziora na jezioro,’ and then I hand back to Dad at ‘Aniele Stróżu mój …’.

from notes by Roxanna Panufnik © 2014

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