The Panufnik Legacies London Symphony Orchestra & François-Xavier Roth

• Andrew McCormack (1978 - ):
• 1Incentive08:09
• Harvey Mason (1947 - ):
• 2... From Bursting Suns Escaping ...03:39
• Charlie Piper (1982 - ):
• 3Flēotan03:45
• Eloise Nancie Gynn (1985 - ):
• 4Sakura03:54
• Edward Nesbit (1986 - ):
• 5Parallels I02:54
• 6Parallels II06:28
• Jason Yarde (1970 - ):
• 7Rude Awakening!05:55
• Martin Suckling (1981- ):
• 8Fanfare for a Newborn Child03:40
• Christopher Mayo (1980 - ):
• 9Therma03:52
• Elizabeth Winters (1979 - ):
• 10Sudden Squall, Sudden Shadow03:41
• Vlad Maistorovici (1985 - ):
• 11Halo10:19
• Total Runtime56:16

Info for The Panufnik Legacies

In May 2013, LSO Live releases an album of new works by 10 emerging young composers. The pieces, originally commissioned as part of the LSO Panufnik Scheme, were recorded in LSO St Luke’s and are now presented on disc, enabling the LSO to share and promote the composers’ music world-wide. The LSO Panufnik Scheme began in 2005 and each year offers six composers the opportunity to write a three-minute piece for the LSO under the guidance of renowned composer Colin Matthews. The scheme was devised by the Orchestra in association with Lady Panufnik in memory of her late husband, Andrzej.

This recording showcases the works of selected composers from across the first five years of the scheme, representing the eclectic range of styles and influences of the 45 composers who have now worked with the Orchestra through this scheme. Many of these composers have gone on to receive additional commissions from the LSO since the scheme’s inception.

As part of the LSO St Luke’s 10th Anniversary celebrations Jason Yarde has been commissioned to write a piece for LSO Brass & Percussion, to be performed in April. In 2013 Christian Mason will have works premiered at Lucerne Festival and Tanglewood. In May Eloise Glynn will have premiered her piece for the Hebrides Ensemble at the Bath International Festival and Martin Suckling is due to have pieces performed by the BBCSSO (a BBC commission) and Scottish Ensemble. As composer in residence of the Manchester Camerata, Christopher Mayo will have a world premiere of his commission in May. Vlad Maistorovici is currently working on a violin concerto for Valery Sokolov.

"There are plenty of imaginative sounds in The Panufnik Legacies… In Fleotan, Charlie Piper creates the sense of sounds suspended in the air, while in Christopher’s Mayo’s Therma, earthy rumblings gradually erupt. A highlight for me, though, was Eloise Nancie Gynn’s Sakura in which darker forces emerge and subside against a backdrop of atmospheric shimmers." (BBC Music Magazine)

"There can hardly be a better and more productive way of remembering a composer than an enterprise such as this...the future of music in Britain is assured when music of the calibre of what is on this disc is being written...I urge music-lovers everywhere to listen to this album" (MusicWeb International)

London Symphony Orchestra
François-Xavier Roth, conductor

François-Xavier Roth
(born Paris, 1971), is one of the most charismatic and enterprising conductors of his generation. His repertoire ranges from music of the seventeenth century to contemporary work encompassing all genres: symphonic, operatic and chamber.

In 2003, he founded Les Siècles, an innovative orchestra performing contrasting and colourful programmes on modern and period instruments, often within the same concert. From 2011-2016 François-Xavier Roth led the SWR Sinfonieorchester Freiburg & Baden-Baden as Principal Conductor; since September 2015 he is General Music Director of the City of Cologne, leading both the Gürzenich-Orchestra and the Opera. He will take up the position of Principal Guest Conductor of the London Symphony Orchestra at the start of the 2017-18 season.

With a reputation for inventive programming, his incisive approach and inspiring leadership are valued around the world. He is working with leading orchestras including the Berlin Philharmonic and Staatskapelle, Royal Concertgebouw and Boston Symphony Orchestra. François-Xavier Roth’s second Cologne opera season features a Ravel double bill of L’enfant et les sortilèges / L’heure espagnole, a revival and tour of Berlioz’ Benvenuto Cellini and Mozart’s Le nozze di Figaro. His opera repertoire includes furthermore Offenbach’s Les Brigands and Delibes’ Lakmé at the Opéra Comique in Paris and Morton Feldman’s Neither at the Berlin Staatsoper.

His numerous recordings amongst other with Les siècles (with whom he was awarded a German Record Critics’ Prize in 2016 for their recording of The Rite of Spring), the London Symphony Orchestra and the SWR Sinfonieorchester Freiburg & Baden-Baden are widely acclaimed. With the Gürzenich Orchestra, he continues a focus on the composer Philippe Manoury, from whom the orchestra has commissioned a trilogy of works, and lead a tour of Asia in February 2017.

Outreach projects, like last season’s project “Planeten” with young dancers and the orchestra of the Rheinische Musikschule or the project “CityLife” with artists of the Cologne electronic label Kompakt, are an important aspect of François-Xavier Roth’s work. He is conductor of the ground-breaking LSO Panufnik Composers Scheme and, with the Festival Berlioz and Les Siècles, he founded the Jeune Orchestre Européen Hector Berlioz, an orchestra-academy with its own collection of period instruments. Roth and Les Siècles devised Presto!, their own television series for France 2, attracting weekly audiences of over three million. The Gürzenich Orchestra’s “ohrenauf!” education programme recently received the Junge Ohren Award.

Roth and Les Siècles devised Presto!, their own television series for France 2, attracting weekly audiences of over three million. The Gürzenich Orchestra’s “ohrenauf!” education programme recently received the Junge Ohren Award.

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