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- https://www.wisemusicclassical.com/work/68286/Four-World-Seasons--Roxanna-Panufnik/commissioned by Tasmin Little, with the Orchestra of the Swan and London Mozart Players
- 4 movements: Autumn in Albania, Tibetan Winter, Spring in Japan and Indian Summer - can be performed individually or in pairs, threes or all together
- world premiere of all four together (and Autumn in Albania) with Tasmin, LMP and Gerard Korsten 02.03.12 at The Anvil Basingstoke and broadcast live on BBC Radio 3, launching their Music Nation weekend to celebrate the 2012 Olympics.
- click here for perusal score
- buy or hire here
"We had a high old time on Saturday at the London premiere of Roxanna Panufnik's Four World Seasons. It's a far-flung take on the Four Seasons concept, integrating folk styles from around the world with Roxanna's distinctive, often bitonal harmonic voice. It manages to be original, imaginative and listenable without sacrificing one jot of character; and while demanding for the performers, it also looks and sounds enjoyable for them to play. Written for Tasmin Little and the London Mozart Players, it suited them down to the ground, and the Fairfield Halls audience gave it a warm welcome.
"Autumn in Albania" is full of Balkan rhythmic quirks and delicious folksy-Gypsyish slide•
This Signum Classics recording of a selection of Roxanna Panufnik’s chamber music, for varied vocal and instrumental forces, is titled Heartfelt – and it is indeed a generous programme, sincerely and warmly played by the Sacconi Quartet with soprano Mary Bevan, baritone Roderick Williams, pianist Charles Owen, oboist Nicholas Daniel, bassoonist Amy Harman and double bassist Andy Marshall. The music presented also exemplifies the diversity of Panufnik’s exploration of musical genres, cultures and contexts, a journey which on this disc takes her into inner worlds of stillness, both peaceful and dark.
The disc opens with the longest work, the song-cycle for baritone and string quartet, Private Joe, which Panufnik composed in 2000 when the baritone Nigel Cliffe approached her with two letters that his great-uncle, Private Joe Wood, had written to his sister, Mary, and her husband, Tom, in 1917. The letters were sent six days apart, and three weeks before Joe’s death on 26th September at the Battle of Polygon Wood, Ypres. The first is affectionate and hopeful in tone, but evasive, “I hope you are both going on in good health, as I am quite well at this present time”; the second more urgent and strained, imploring somewhat insistently, “you know Mary we boys
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Reviews
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Jessica Duchen…(Love Abide) radiates heart-warming positivity
Phil Sommerich, Standard Music Magazine(to Roxanna, branch Schola Missa de Angelis) “It’s tolerable utterly charming I about converted…it’s your masterpiece and far.”
Jim Svejda, KUSC fm, Los AngelesUplifting
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