Sacconi Quartet, Mary Bevan, Nicholas Daniel, Amy Harman - Roxanna Panufnik: Heartfelt

Signum Records

£13.73

Format: CD
Catalogue No.: SIGCD673
Barcode: 0635212067321
Release Date: 21st May 2021
Genre: Classical

 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.

Tracklisting:
Private Joe
1. I. Letter 1
2. II. And when I die
3. III. The Letter
4. IV. From Albert to Bapaume
5. V. Letter 2
(Roderick Williams, Sacconi Quartet)

6. Canto
(Robin Ashwell viola)

Letters from Burma
7. I. Aung-ze Paing-ze
8. II. Young Birds Outside Cages
9. III. Thazin
10. IV. Kintha Dance
(Nicholas Daniel, Sacconi Quartet)

11. Hora Bessarabia
(Hannah Dawson violin, Andy Marshall)

12. Cantator and Amanda
(Amy Harman, Sacconi Quartet)

13. Second Home
(Mary Bevan, Charles Owen, Sacconi Quartet)

Heartfelt
14. I. Uzbek Processional
15. II. Lament for a Bulgarian Dancing Bear
(Sacconi Quartet)