Heartfelt - Sacconi Quartet - Audio CD (Arrives in 50 days)

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 Zoo was generously able to send Panufnik a recording of Albie’s heartbeat whilst they underwent a small surgical procedure, the anaesthetic resembling the bear’s hibernation. Albie himself is pictured on the album’s front cover.

Tracklist

1. Private Joe - I. Letter 1 (04:11)
2. Private Joe - Ii. and When I Die (02:21)
3. Private Joe - Iii. the Letter (03:38)
4. Private Joe - Iv. From Albert To Bapaume (03:18)
5. Private Joe - V. Letter 2 (06:31)
6. Canto - (07:57)
7. Letter From Burma - I. Aung-Ze Paing-Ze (03:40)
8. Letter From Burma - Ii. Young Birds Outside Cages (01:48)
9. Letter From Burma - Iii. Thazin (02:55)
10. Letter From Burma - Iv. Kintha Dance (02:17)
11. Hora Bessarabia - (07:32)
12. Cantator and Amanda - (13:55)
13. Second Home - (09:50)
14. Heartfelt - I. Uzbek Processional (05:43)
15. Heartfelt - Ii. Lament For a Bulgarian Dancing Bear (05:39)

Label: Signum Classics | Origin: Holland

📌 Works By Roxanna Panufnik