Roxanna Panufnik: Love Abide

 
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ROXANNA PANUFNIK
Roxanna Panufnik: Love Abide
Colla Voce Singers, London Mozart Players, Lee Ward

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Release Date: Friday 8 February 2019

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Roxanna Panufnik's ongoing mission to build musical bridges between different faiths was inspired by the birth of her first child in 2002, when she started to reflect on the world she was bringing her baby into. Religious conflict and wars caused by it are constantly in the news - but we rarely hear enough about the affirmative aspects of our many faiths, such as the phenomenal beauty of the varied cultures surrounding them. By exploring these cultures, Panufnik has been able to unearth a bounty of stunning chant and verse and has been brought closer to her own personal spiritual beliefs.

Each work on this CD focuses on a particular mood or sentiment around the theme of love, expressed in a musical language that echoes the origin of the words. Drawing on texts from different faiths, from the 15th century Zen Master Ikkyū Sōyun to the well-loved 13th chapter of 1 Corinthians; from the Christian mass setting to the 14th Century Sufi poet and mystic Rumi, to the ancient Hebrew Psalm 136 (135). And marrying traditional Anglican text with a Catholic one - creating a truly Ecumenical Magnificat. Within the music you hear fragments of Spanish Sephardic chant, Christian plainsong, Sufi rhythms and a Japanese lullaby to soothe the soul.

Love Abide encapsulates the very contemporary ethos of multicultural spiritual devotion in a world populated by a rich diversity of faiths - all feeling, as deeply and as aesthetically, the compelling potency of music with love.

★★★★★ A rich offering on the theme of interfaith connectivity - BBC Music Magazine

[An] impressively varied and diverse collection. A music of hope in dark and troubled times - Gramophone

A soothing soundworld - The Northern Echo

"A rich offering on a theme of interfaith connectivity. The Japanese lullaby-inspired Zen Love Song and title work Love Abide are totally absorbing." BBC Music

"Her music exudes openness and inclusivity, and it is in the choral settings where hope and positivity - two words that lie at the heart of her work - are most keenly felt." Gramophone

Tracks:

1. Love Endureth

Love Abide
2. I. Love is the Master
3. II. Love Abide

Magnificat & Nunc Dimittis
4. I. Magnificat
5. II. Nunc Dimittis
6. Zen Love Song

Schola Missa de Angelis
7. I. Kyrie
8. II. Gloria
9. III. Sanctus & Benedictus
10. IV. Agnus Dei

Mass of the Angels
11. I. Kyrie
12. II. Gloria
13. III. Sanctus
14. IV. Agnus Dei