Panufnik, A: Orchestral Works

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Panufnik's music has always seemed more elusive than its demonstrable surface suggests. Even the wartime Heroic Overture – a work that plays to the gallery and knows it – has a more sober subtext... — Gramophone Classical Music Guide, 2010 More…

Release Date: 3rd Sep 2007
Catalogue No: ODE1101-5
Label: Ondine
Length: 75 minutes

Panufnik, A: Heroic Overture

Work length7:10

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$2.60

Tampere Philharmonic Orchestra
John Storgårds

Panufnik, A: Symphony No. 5, "Sinfonia di sfere"

Work length33:56

$9.00

$11.70

Tampere Philharmonic Orchestra
John Storgårds

I. Poco andante -

Track length4:50

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$1.30

II. Poco allegro -

Track length1:49

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III. Poco andante -

Track length5:07

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IV. Andante -

Track length9:35

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$2.60

V. Molto allegro -

Track length2:11

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$1.30

VI. Molto andante -

Track length7:29

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$2.60

VII. Molto allegro

Track length2:55

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$1.30

Panufnik, A: Landscape

Work length8:41

$2.00

$2.60

Tampere Philharmonic Orchestra
John Storgårds

Panufnik, A: Symphony No. 3, "Sinfonia sacra"

Work length25:33

$6.00

$7.75

Tampere Philharmonic Orchestra
John Storgårds

Vision I: Maestoso -

Track length2:32

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$1.30

Vision II: Larghetto -

Track length3:57

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$1.30

Vision III: Allegro assai - Agitato -

Track length4:42

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$1.30

Hymn: Andante sostenuto - Maestoso

Track length14:22

$3.00

$3.85

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Andrzej Panufnik (1914-1991) the most important Polish/British composer of the 20th century and was championed by conductors such as Stokowski, Solti and Ozawa.This new Ondine recording features some of his major works on SACD for the first time.

Panufnik studied composition in Warsaw and Vienna. During Nazi wartime occupation, he performed in piano duo with Witold Lutoslawski. All his early works were tragically lost in the 1944 Warsaw Uprising. He escaped from Poland in 1954, when the Communist imposition of Socialist Realism stifled creative freedom, and settled in England after which he 'ceased to exist' in his homeland.

His third symphony, Sinfonia Sacra, won the Prince Pierre de Monaco prize in 1963 and became his most performed score.This CD also contains the first digital recording of the fifth symphony, Sinfonia di Sfere. The extensive booklet contains unpublished photographs from the personal collection of Panufnik's wife, Lady Camilla Jessel Panufnik.

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2010

Panufnik's music has always seemed more elusive than its demonstrable surface suggests. Even the wartime Heroic Overture – a work that plays to the gallery and knows it – has a more sober subtext as the Polish patriotic song on which it's based is secreted in the background. Is its relegation a symbol of repression? Could be, but Panufnik's driving optimism simultaneously transforms his source into a beacon of hope, something to be aspired to at a time of uncertainty.
The Tampere Philharmonic deliver a rhythmically propulsive and dramatically epic performance.
Throughout the disc, the Tampere brass sound has the swank and punch of a big band, while the string-playing is fastidiously nuanced – power-house sheets of sound rain down as required, and pianissimi are acutely hushed. This honed orchestral playing makes for a Sinfoniasacra that's a revelation. Probably Panufnik's most popular symphony, the work begins with brass fanfares embedded with tart harmonic ambiguities that Storgårds has primed with snarling clarity. His sense of pace, as Panufnik strips the orchestra down to strings alone and rebuilds again over a 30-minute duration, has the precision of sonar and supreme dramatic flair.
Panufnik's increasing interest in geometry governed much of the music he wrote in the 1970s, the Sinfonia di sfere included. The beauty of the music became highly objectified, just as his ear for piquant harmonies and idiosyncratic orchestration intensified. A potent combination, equally powerfully in the execution.

November 2007

The Tampere Philharmonic under John Storgårds deliver a rhythmically propulsive and dramatically epic performance… Throughout the disc, the Tampere brass sound has the swank and punch of a big band, while the string-playing is fastidiously nuanced…

Panufnik, A: Orchestral Works

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