Love Songs & Lullabies Roxanna Panufnik

• Traditional: Rock-a-bye, my Son:
• 1 Traditional: Rock-a-bye, my Son 05:02
• Lyra’s Lullaby:
• 2 Traditional: Lyra’s Lullaby 07:14
• Flowing River Part II:
• 3 Traditional: Flowing River Part II 02:17
• My Man:
• 4 Traditional: My Man 05:00
• Roxanna Panufnik (b. 1968): When it’s Over:
• 5 Panufnik: When it’s Over: Part I 04:40
• 6 Panufnik: When it’s Over: Part II 04:32
• When I wake up:
• 7 Panufnik: When I wake up: 05:15
• When you Appear:
• 8 Panufnik: When you Appear 08:24
• Traditional: Joseph cradles the baby:
• 9 Traditional: Joseph cradles the baby 05:03
• Flowing River Part I:
• 10 Traditional: Flowing River Part I 04:52
• Sleep, Jesus, Sleep (Spy, Isuse, Spy) (Arranged by Roxanna Panufnik):
• 11 Traditional: Sleep, Jesus, Sleep (Spy, Isuse, Spy) (Arranged by Roxanna Panufnik) 03:38
• Total Runtime 55:57

Info for Love Songs & Lullabies

"Love songs and lullabies" from all over the world, composed or reimagined by Roxanna Panufnik. Collaborating on new musical genres but retaining her unique and very personal harmonic and melodic style.

Like many musicians, after the pandemic, a six-month hole suddenly appeared in my schedule. Melodramatically, I asked myself if I should go back to my teenage dreams of being an ambulance driver—would I ever compose again? Then, I remembered what I had always wanted to do but never had time for, collaborating with musicians from other genres. This, combined with lockdown dreams of travel, has taken me on a musical journey through Croatia, Poland, Ukraine, Syria, China, Chile and Portugal.

Several of the adventurous tracks have more conventional siblings, arrangements of traditional love songs and lullabies also appear in a more ‘classical’ idiom with middle sections becoming an original fantasy on its melody, by me.

Four years in the making, I am completely thrilled at the fantastic range of talent and sound-worlds we have managed to bring together for this album—I hope you will be too.

“For listeners new to the music of [Roxanna Panufnik], this is perhaps the perfect introduction.” (CD Choice)

Jem 'Stone' Panufnik, electronics
Zeynep Özsuca, piano
Peter Moore, trombone
Mary Bevan, soprano
Matthew Barley, cello
Lucy Dixon, vocals
Brodsky Quartet
David Gordon, double bass, piano
Merit Ariane, vocals
Jude Abueisheh, vocals
Baha Yetkin, oud
Zeynep Özsuca, piano
Aurora Percussion Duo
Inna Husieva, soprano
Sulaiman Haqpana, tabla
Soul Sanctuary Gospel Choir

Roxanna Panufnik
is one of the UK's most popular and loved composers whose works have struck a deep emotional chord with audiences everywhere.

Since studying composition at London's Royal Academy of Music, Roxanna's since written a wide range of pieces including opera, ballet, music theatre, choral works, chamber compositions and music for film and television which are regularly performed all over the world.

Among her most widely given works are Westminster Mass, commissioned for Westminster Cathedral Choir on the occasion of Cardinal Hume's 75th birthday; The Music Programme, an opera for Polish National Opera's millennium season which received its UK premiere at the BOC Covent Garden Festival; and settings for solo voices and orchestra of Vikram Seth's Beastly Tales - the first of which was commissioned by the BBC for Patricia Rozario and City of London Sinfonia.

Other compositions include Roxanna's critically acclaimed harp concerto Powers & Dominions; Letters from Burma for oboist Douglas Boyd and the Vellinger String Quartet; Leda, a ballet for English National Ballet and Wratislavia Cantans and Abraham - a violin concerto commissioned by Savannah Music Festival for Daniel Hope, incorporating Christian, Islamic and Jewish music. This last work was converted into an overture, commissioned by the World Orchestra for Peace and premiered in Jerusalem under the baton of Valery Gergiev.

Recent premieres include her oratorio "Dance of Life" (in Latin and Estonian), incorporating her fourth mass setting, for multiple Tallinn choirs and the Tallinn Philharmonic Orchestra (commissioned to mark their tenure of European Capital of Culture 2011 and recently recorded - in English - for release on Warner Classics 2014) and "Four World Seasons" for violinist Tasmin Little and the London Mozart Players, which was broadcast live on BBC Radio 3, launching their Music Nation Weekend, celebrating the 2012 Olympics.

2013/14 sees numerous premieres in Europe, Australia and the USA with the choirs of Westminster and Liverpool Metropolitan Cathedrals, Philadelphia’s St Mark’s Episcopal Church, Chanticleer, the Welsh Sinfonia, Ernst Kovacic & the Leopoldinum Orchestra, the Albanian TV & Radio Symphony Orchestra and the London Mozart Players (with whom she has been appointed inaugural Associate Composer from 2012 – 15). Her multi-faith choral CD “Love Abide” (www.loveabide.com) was released this February to critical acclaim and "Dance of Life: Tallinn Mass" will be released (also with Warner Classics) on 4th February, 2014.

2014 is the centenary of Roxanna's father's, Andrzej Panufnik, birth - many concerts, recordings and events including father-daughter programming will be happening over this year - please do visit panufnik.com for further details (which will be regularly updated through this year and next).

Roxanna's compositions are published by Peter’s Edition Ltd and have been recorded on many labels including Warner Classics (most recently her multi-faith choral CD Love Abide www.loveabide.com) and EMI Classics.

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