Roxanna Panufnik

ROXANNA PANUFNIK

COLLA VOCE SINGERS • LONDON MOZART PLAYERS • LEE WARD 1

03388 JC 28pp Roxanna Panufnik – Love Abide SIGCD564 v4.indd 1 30/11/2018 17:01 DEDICATIONS SCHOLA MISSA DE ANGELIS 7 Kyrie...... (2.36) This CD was made with support from 14 principal sponsors who, in return, were able to dedicate For James, Ludovico and Niccolò Canonaco, with all my love, Mamma their track to someone they love – their dedications were read out to the musicians at the start 8 Gloria...... (4.23) of each session, so that the sponsors’ individual tracks were performed with their loved ones very To Karen, Nicola, Susan, Anne & Stephen with love from Pa/Tony & Mummy/Joan much in mind. 9 Sanctus & Benedictus...... (4.20) To Nathalie with love from Simon

1 Love Endureth...... (4.21) 10 Agnus Dei...... (5.24) In memoriam Commander R F Jessel DSO OBE DSC Royal Navy & Mrs Winnie Jessel With sincere gratitude for six wonderful years with the Schola, 2006–2012. Thank you Lee. Anon LOVE ABIDE 2 Love is the Master...... (5.22) MASS OF THE ANGELS In loving memory of Leo 11 Kyrie...... (2.08) 3 Love Abide...... (10.41) For Tattin – 25 years of Love, of Laughter, and growing old together. for Dearest Brian Maher – son, brother and friend 12 Gloria...... (3.14) To my wonderful Aunt Gloria, with love on her 80th Birthday MAGNIFICAT & NUNC DIMITTIS 4 Magnificat...... (5.52) 13 Sanctus and Benedictus...... (3.35) Forever in memory of my adored husband Andrzej, beloved father of Rox & Jem To express our appreciation for being part of the unique Schola family under the direction of Lee Ward. Twenty Schola families, 2012 5 Nunc Dimittis...... (3.04) The love I feel for Paul can only be expressed in music 14 Agnus Dei...... (3.23) 6 Zen Love Song...... (6.01) In loving memory of our sweet little lamb, Theodore Kulawik & Gratitude for profound men, In loving memory of Simone, from all your children and grandchildren in particular Germain Roquette et Jean de Saint Chamas

Total running time...... (64.26)

“Whoso loves, believes the impossible.” Elizabeth Barret Browning 3

03388 JC 28pp Roxanna Panufnik – Love Abide SIGCD564 v4.indd 2-3 30/11/2018 17:01 DEDICATIONS SCHOLA MISSA DE ANGELIS 7 Kyrie...... (2.36) This CD was made with support from 14 principal sponsors who, in return, were able to dedicate For James, Ludovico and Niccolò Canonaco, with all my love, Mamma their track to someone they love – their dedications were read out to the musicians at the start 8 Gloria...... (4.23) of each session, so that the sponsors’ individual tracks were performed with their loved ones very To Karen, Nicola, Susan, Anne & Stephen with love from Pa/Tony & Mummy/Joan much in mind. 9 Sanctus & Benedictus...... (4.20) To Nathalie with love from Simon

Total running time...... (64.26)

“Whoso loves, believes the impossible.” Elizabeth Barret Browning 3

03388 JC 28pp Roxanna Panufnik – Love Abide SIGCD564 v4.indd 2-3 30/11/2018 17:01 THE MUSIC “The test of religion, the final test of religion, is not religiousness, but love.” » 1 Love Endureth Henry Drummond VOCES8 & friends, Barnaby Smith director

y ongoing mission to build Zen Master Ikkyū Sōyun to the well-loved Commissioned as part of a psalm series by Soli Deo Gloria, the original brief referred to the “old musical bridges between 13th chapter of 1 Corinthians; from the Hebrew psalms” which planted the idea in my mind to bring a strong Jewish flavour to both different faiths was inspired the music and the words. I have used two fragments of Spanish Sephardic chants and, half way by the birth of my first Christian mass setting to the 14th Century throughout the piece, substituted the English response for its Hebrew equivalent “Ki L’olam Mchild, in 2002, when I started to ponder Sufi poet and mystic Rumi, to the ancient chasdo” – “For forever His mercy”. deeply on what kind of world I was bringing Hebrew Psalm 136(135). And I’ve married her into. Religious conflict and wars that a traditional Anglican text with a Catholic Praise the Lord, for he is good: for His steadfast love endureth for ever. involve it are constantly in the news – but one – creating a truly Ecumenical Magnificat. Praise ye the God of gods: for His steadfast love endureth for ever. we rarely hear enough about the affirmative Within the music you will hear fragments Praise ye the Lord of lords: for His steadfast love endureth for ever. aspects of our many faiths, such as the of Spanish Sephardic chant, Christian Who alone doth great wonders: for His steadfast love endureth for ever. phenomenal beauty of the varied cultures plainsong, Sufi rhythms and a Japanese Who made the heavens in understanding: for His steadfast love endureth for ever. surrounding them. Exploring these cultures lullaby to soothe the soul. Who established the earth above the waters: for His steadfast love endureth for ever. has unearthed a bounty of stunning chant Who made the great lights: for His steadfast love endureth for ever. and verse and has brought me closer to my Love Abide encapsulates the very The sun to rule over the day:for His steadfast love endureth for ever. own personal spiritual beliefs. contemporary ethos of multicultural spiritual The moon and the stars to rule the night:for His steadfast love endureth for ever. devotion in a world populated by a rich Each work on this CD focuses on a particular diversity of faiths – all feeling, as deeply and Ki L’olam chasdo, Ki L’olam chasdo (“For forever His mercy”) mood or sentiment around the theme of love, as aesthetically, the compelling potency of expressed in a musical language that echoes music with love. the origin of the words. I’ve drawn on texts from different faiths, from the 15th century Roxanna Panufnik

03388 JC 28pp Roxanna Panufnik – Love Abide SIGCD564 v4.indd 4-5 30/11/2018 17:01 THE MUSIC “The test of religion, the final test of religion, is not religiousness, but love.” » 1 Love Endureth Henry Drummond VOCES8 & friends, Barnaby Smith director

03388 JC 28pp Roxanna Panufnik – Love Abide SIGCD564 v4.indd 4-5 30/11/2018 17:01 Who smote Egypt with their firstborn: †† 2 – 3 LOVE ABIDE Who brought Israel from among them: With a mighty hand and a stretched out arm: Love Abide children’s choir, Colla Voce Singers, London Mozart Players, Lee Ward conductor Who divided the Red Sea into parts: And brought out Israel through the midst thereof: And overthrew Pharaoh and his host in the Red Sea: The genesis of Love Abide’s commission For the first movement, I was free to choose was the pinnacle of Love and devotion – a another poem to accompany this. Love Praise the Lord, for he is good: for His steadfast love endureth for ever. commission by The Choral Arts Society is the Master, by Rumi (the 13th century Praise ye the God of gods: for His steadfast love endureth for ever. Philadelphia, USA, that was funded by Sufi mystic and poet) is just as fervent in Praise ye the Lord of lords: for His steadfast love endureth for ever. philanthropist Paul Rowley, who wanted its celebration of love, but in a wilder and something composed in memory of his late more passionate way than the bible verses it Give glory to the God of heaven: for His steadfast love endureth for ever. wife, Miriam Primitch. She sang alto in the precedes. I have used the Sufi Duyek Velveleli Give glory to the Lord of lords: for His steadfast love endureth for ever. choir for 15 years – I was told that she would rhythm as a quasi “riff” in the bass and the literally “glow” after every performance. Turkish Zengüle mode (imagine a scale of Psalm 136 (135) He specified that he would like the famous C with a D flat and an A flat), giving the verses on Love from the Bible’s first book of music a more Eastern flavour. The rhythms, Corinthians, with its timeless message: you harmonies and vocal lines start quite sedately can have anything in the whole wide world with parts of the choir chanting “Love is but it is worth nothing without love. the master” in a trance-like fashion. As the music progresses all these elements become more and more intense until, fraught with irrevocable ecstasy…

03388 JC 28pp Roxanna Panufnik – Love Abide SIGCD564 v4.indd 6-7 30/11/2018 17:01 Who smote Egypt with their firstborn: †† 2 – 3 LOVE ABIDE Who brought Israel from among them: With a mighty hand and a stretched out arm: Love Abide children’s choir, Colla Voce Singers, London Mozart Players, Lee Ward conductor Who divided the Red Sea into parts: And brought out Israel through the midst thereof: And overthrew Pharaoh and his host in the Red Sea: The genesis of Love Abide’s commission For the first movement, I was free to choose was the pinnacle of Love and devotion – a another poem to accompany this. Love Praise the Lord, for he is good: for His steadfast love endureth for ever. commission by The Choral Arts Society is the Master, by Rumi (the 13th century Praise ye the God of gods: for His steadfast love endureth for ever. Philadelphia, USA, that was funded by Sufi mystic and poet) is just as fervent in Praise ye the Lord of lords: for His steadfast love endureth for ever. philanthropist Paul Rowley, who wanted its celebration of love, but in a wilder and something composed in memory of his late more passionate way than the bible verses it Give glory to the God of heaven: for His steadfast love endureth for ever. wife, Miriam Primitch. She sang alto in the precedes. I have used the Sufi Duyek Velveleli Give glory to the Lord of lords: for His steadfast love endureth for ever. choir for 15 years – I was told that she would rhythm as a quasi “riff” in the bass and the literally “glow” after every performance. Turkish Zengüle mode (imagine a scale of Psalm 136 (135) He specified that he would like the famous C with a D flat and an A flat), giving the verses on Love from the Bible’s first book of music a more Eastern flavour. The rhythms, Corinthians, with its timeless message: you harmonies and vocal lines start quite sedately can have anything in the whole wide world with parts of the choir chanting “Love is but it is worth nothing without love. the master” in a trance-like fashion. As the music progresses all these elements become more and more intense until, fraught with irrevocable ecstasy…

03388 JC 28pp Roxanna Panufnik – Love Abide SIGCD564 v4.indd 6-7 30/11/2018 17:01 » 2 Love is the Master

Love is the One who masters all things; I am mastered totally by Love. By my passion of love for Love I have ground sweet as sugar. O furious Wind, I am only a straw before you; How could I know where I will be blown next?Whoever claims to have made a pact with Destiny Reveals himself a liar and a fool; What is any of us but a straw in a storm? How could anyone make a pact with a hurricane? God is working everywhere his massive Resurrection; How can we pretend to act on our own? In the hand of Love I am like a cat in a sack; Sometimes Love hoists me into the air, Sometimes Love flings me into the air, Love swings me round and round His head; I have no peace, in this world or any other. The lovers of God have fallen in a furious river; They have surrendered themselves to Love’s commands. Like mill wheels they turn, day and night, day and night, Constantly turning and turning, and crying out.

Rumi, trans. Andrew Harvey. (Words reproduced with kind permission of Andrew Harvey)

03388 JC 28pp Roxanna Panufnik – Love Abide SIGCD564 v4.indd 8-9 30/11/2018 17:01 » 3 Love Abide I. If I speak in the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I am a noisy gong or clanging cymbal. Heather Shipp mezzo soprano solo II. And if I have prophetic powers, and understand all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I Mark Stone baritone solo have all faith, so as to remove mountains, but have not love, I am nothing. III. If I give away all I have, and I deliver my body to be burned, but have not love, I gain The second movement, called “Love Abide” (as well as the title of the whole piece), is much nothing. calmer and infused with a more romantic – rather than passionate – ardour than Love is the IV. Love is patient and kind; love is not jealous or boastful; Master. Flowing and interweaving scales in the organ and harp accompany most of the V. it is not arrogant or rude. Love does not insist on its own way; it is not irritable or movement creating a calm, dream-like atmosphere. Soloists, choir and orchestra end the piece resentful; together, with intense joy and optimism. VI. it does not rejoice at wrong, but rejoices in the right. VII. Love bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things. VIII. Love never ends; as for prophecies, they will pass away; as for tongues, they will cease; as for knowledge, it will pass away. IX. For our knowledge is imperfect and our prophecy is imperfect; X. but when the perfect comes, the imperfect will pass away. XI. When I was a child, I spoke like a child, I thought like a child; when I became a man, I gave up childish ways. XII. For now we see in the mirror dimly, but then face to face. Now I know in part; then I shall understand fully, even as I have been fully understood. XIII. So faith, hope, love abide, these three; the greatest of these is love.

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03388 JC 28pp Roxanna Panufnik – Love Abide SIGCD564 v4.indd 10-11 30/11/2018 17:01 » 3 Love Abide I. If I speak in the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I am a noisy gong or clanging cymbal. Heather Shipp mezzo soprano solo II. And if I have prophetic powers, and understand all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I Mark Stone baritone solo have all faith, so as to remove mountains, but have not love, I am nothing. III. If I give away all I have, and I deliver my body to be burned, but have not love, I gain The second movement, called “Love Abide” (as well as the title of the whole piece), is much nothing. calmer and infused with a more romantic – rather than passionate – ardour than Love is the IV. Love is patient and kind; love is not jealous or boastful; Master. Flowing and interweaving scales in the organ and harp accompany most of the V. it is not arrogant or rude. Love does not insist on its own way; it is not irritable or movement creating a calm, dream-like atmosphere. Soloists, choir and orchestra end the piece resentful; together, with intense joy and optimism. VI. it does not rejoice at wrong, but rejoices in the right. VII. Love bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things. VIII. Love never ends; as for prophecies, they will pass away; as for tongues, they will cease; as for knowledge, it will pass away. IX. For our knowledge is imperfect and our prophecy is imperfect; X. but when the perfect comes, the imperfect will pass away. XI. When I was a child, I spoke like a child, I thought like a child; when I became a man, I gave up childish ways. XII. For now we see in the mirror dimly, but then face to face. Now I know in part; then I shall understand fully, even as I have been fully understood. XIII. So faith, hope, love abide, these three; the greatest of these is love.

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03388 JC 28pp Roxanna Panufnik – Love Abide SIGCD564 v4.indd 10-11 30/11/2018 17:01 †† 4 – 5 MAGNIFICAT & NUNC DIMITTIS And his mercy is on them Glory be to the Father, and Nunc dimittis servum tuum, that fear him: Ora pro nobis to the Son: and to the Holy Domine, secundum verbum Exultate Singers, Richard Johnson organ, David Ogden conductor peccatoribus, (Pray for us Ghost; As it was in the tuum in pace: LORD, now sinners now,) throughout beginning, is now, and ever lettest thou thy servant » 4 Magnificat together, they have very close For behold, from henceforth: all generations. Nunc et in shall be: world without end. depart in peace: according to associations – it seemed a Benedicta tu in mulieribus hora, mortis nostrae. (And Amen. thy word. It was a Precentor friend very natural thing to do. This (blessed art thou among at the hour of our death.) of mine who suggested the work was a joint commission women) all generations Luke 1 For mine eyes have seen: thy idea of interpolating the between St Mark’s Episcopal shall call me blessed. Et He hath showed strength salvation; Which thou hast Ave Maria (the Hail Mary – Church, in Philadelphia USA, benedictus fructus ventris with his arm: he hath prepared: before the face of mostly used during a Catholic and the Exultate Singers who tui, Jesus. (And blessed is the scattered the proud in the » 5 Nunc Dimittis all people; To be a light to Mass) with the Magnificat (a are performing it on this disc. fruit of thy womb, Jesus,) imagination of their hearts. lighten the Gentiles: and to fundamental part of Anglican He hath put down the Simeon’s speech on the be the glory of thy people Evensong), which has created My soul doth magnify the For he that is mighty hath mighty from their seat: and fulfilment of prophecy at the Israel. this Ecumenical work! The Lord: Ave Maria, (Hail magnified meSancta Maria, hath exalted the humble and Messiah’s/Jesus’s arrival starts Ave Maria/Hail Mary, those Mary,) and my spirit hath (Holy Mary,): and holy is his meek. He hath filled the more reflectively, again with a Glory be to the Father, and words of the Archangel rejoiced in God my Saviour. Name. Mater Dei, (mother hungry with good things: little Latin – this time just the to the Son: and to the Holy Gabriel telling Mary that she of God,) and the rich he hath sent first line of the Nunc Dimittis. Ghost; As it was in the was carrying God’s son, must For he hath regarded gratia empty away. The music gradually builds beginning, is now, and ever have been utmost in her mind plena, (full of grace,): the up momentum until it echoes shall be: world without end. in the subsequent Magnificat, lowliness of his hand- He remembering his mercy the more wild and theatrical Amen. in which she relates her maiden. Dominus tecum, hath holpen his servant Magnificat, ending with the feelings on that awesome (the Lord is with thee,) Israel: as he promised to our same last celebratory lines. Luke 2.29 news, to her cousin Elisabeth. forefathers, Abraham and his Piecing the two texts seed, for ever.

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03388 JC 28pp Roxanna Panufnik – Love Abide SIGCD564 v4.indd 12-13 30/11/2018 17:01 †† 4 – 5 MAGNIFICAT & NUNC DIMITTIS And his mercy is on them Glory be to the Father, and Nunc dimittis servum tuum, that fear him: Ora pro nobis to the Son: and to the Holy Domine, secundum verbum Exultate Singers, Richard Johnson organ, David Ogden conductor peccatoribus, (Pray for us Ghost; As it was in the tuum in pace: LORD, now sinners now,) throughout beginning, is now, and ever lettest thou thy servant » 4 Magnificat together, they have very close For behold, from henceforth: all generations. Nunc et in shall be: world without end. depart in peace: according to associations – it seemed a Benedicta tu in mulieribus hora, mortis nostrae. (And Amen. thy word. It was a Precentor friend very natural thing to do. This (blessed art thou among at the hour of our death.) of mine who suggested the work was a joint commission women) all generations Luke 1 For mine eyes have seen: thy idea of interpolating the between St Mark’s Episcopal shall call me blessed. Et He hath showed strength salvation; Which thou hast Ave Maria (the Hail Mary – Church, in Philadelphia USA, benedictus fructus ventris with his arm: he hath prepared: before the face of mostly used during a Catholic and the Exultate Singers who tui, Jesus. (And blessed is the scattered the proud in the » 5 Nunc Dimittis all people; To be a light to Mass) with the Magnificat (a are performing it on this disc. fruit of thy womb, Jesus,) imagination of their hearts. lighten the Gentiles: and to fundamental part of Anglican He hath put down the Simeon’s speech on the be the glory of thy people Evensong), which has created My soul doth magnify the For he that is mighty hath mighty from their seat: and fulfilment of prophecy at the Israel. this Ecumenical work! The Lord: Ave Maria, (Hail magnified meSancta Maria, hath exalted the humble and Messiah’s/Jesus’s arrival starts Ave Maria/Hail Mary, those Mary,) and my spirit hath (Holy Mary,): and holy is his meek. He hath filled the more reflectively, again with a Glory be to the Father, and words of the Archangel rejoiced in God my Saviour. Name. Mater Dei, (mother hungry with good things: little Latin – this time just the to the Son: and to the Holy Gabriel telling Mary that she of God,) and the rich he hath sent first line of the Nunc Dimittis. Ghost; As it was in the was carrying God’s son, must For he hath regarded gratia empty away. The music gradually builds beginning, is now, and ever have been utmost in her mind plena, (full of grace,): the up momentum until it echoes shall be: world without end. in the subsequent Magnificat, lowliness of his hand- He remembering his mercy the more wild and theatrical Amen. in which she relates her maiden. Dominus tecum, hath holpen his servant Magnificat, ending with the feelings on that awesome (the Lord is with thee,) Israel: as he promised to our same last celebratory lines. Luke 2.29 news, to her cousin Elisabeth. forefathers, Abraham and his Piecing the two texts seed, for ever.

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03388 JC 28pp Roxanna Panufnik – Love Abide SIGCD564 v4.indd 12-13 30/11/2018 17:01 » 6 Zen Love Song †† 7 – 10 Schola Missa de Angelis & 11 – 14 Mass of the Angels

VOCES8, Loli Day jinashi-shakuhachi, Barnaby Smith conductor Gilles Sinclair treble soloist, Ben Fleetwood Smyth tenor soloist, Love Abide children’s choir, London Mozart Players, Tom Ward organ, Lee Ward conductor Zen Love Song with the beautifully poignant traditional Japanese lullaby Edo Komoriuta, which continues throughout the piece – interchanging between the accompanying shakuhachi (Japanese Schola Missa de Angelis is a setting of the famous gentle and meandering 9th Century plainsong, bamboo flute) and the voices – as a backdrop to two of 15th Century Zen Master Ikkyū’s highly Missa de Angelis, which is still sung in its original form in many Catholic churches today. The romantic and sensual poems. The lullaby’s words (sung in Japanese) depict the loss of a little boy’s original commission was accompanied by a request to create a simplified congregational version beloved nursemaid who has gone back to her home. This chimes with how Ikkyū feels at the loss – hence Mass of the Angels, which is a more condensed and simplified version and in the new of his “lovely miss” to another man. English liturgy translation. A ‘remix’, if you like…

Nennen korori yo okorori yo, Hush-a-bye, hush-a-bye, » 7 Kyrie Gratiam agimus tibi propter Tu solus Altissimus, Jesu Bōya wa yoi ko da nenne shi na. My good baby, sleep. magnam gloriam tuam. Christe. Crimson cheeks, light-coloured hair, full of compassion and love. Solos: Gilles Sinclair treble, Domine Deus, Rex coelestis, Cum Sancto Spiritu in gloria Lost in a dream of love play, I contemplate her beauty. Ben Fleetwood Smyth tenor Deus Pater omnipotens. Dei Patris. Amen. Her thousand eyes of great mercy look upon all but see no one beyond redemption. Domine Fili unigenite, Jesu This goddess can even be a fisherman’s wife by a river or sea, singing of salvation. Kyrie eleison Christe. When we parted, it broke my heart Christe eleison Domine Deus, Agnus Dei, » 9 Sanctus and Her powdered cheeks were more beautiful Kyrie eleison Filius Patris. Benedictus than spring flowers. Qui tollis peccata mundi, My lovely miss is now with another, miserere nobis. Solos: Gilles Sinclair treble Singing the same love song but to a different tune. » 8 Gloria Qui tollis peccata mundi, Sanctus, Sanctus, Sanctus, Ikkyū Sōyun (1394 – 1491) trans. John Stevenson Gloria in excelsis Deo. suscipe deprecationem Dominus Deus Sabaoth. Et in terra pax hominibus nostram. Pleni sunt coeli et terra “I love you when you bow in your mosque, kneel in your temple, pray in your church. For you and I are bonae voluntatis. Qui sedes ad dexteram gloria tua. sons of one religion, and it is the spirit.” Khalil Gibran Laudamus te. Benedicimus Patris, miserere nobis. Hosanna in excelsis. te. Adoramus te. Quoniam tu solus Sanctus. Benedictus qui venit in Glorificamus te. Tu solus Dominus. nomine Domini. Hosanna in excelsis. 14 15

03388 JC 28pp Roxanna Panufnik – Love Abide SIGCD564 v4.indd 14-15 30/11/2018 17:01 » 6 Zen Love Song †† 7 – 10 Schola Missa de Angelis & 11 – 14 Mass of the Angels

03388 JC 28pp Roxanna Panufnik – Love Abide SIGCD564 v4.indd 14-15 30/11/2018 17:01 » 10 Agnus Dei We give You thanks for Your » 13 Sanctus & Benedictus ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS SPONSORS & DONATORS great glory. Solos: Ben Fleetwood Smyth Holy, Holy, Holy Deepest and heartfelt gratitude goes to the With eternal and enormous thanks to the tenor Lord God, heavenly King, Lord God of Hosts. wonderful Jenny Sinclair – who helped me following people who made Love Abide God the Father almighty. Heaven and earth are filled from Day 1 to structure my project and happen: Brenda Baldwin, Andrew Bernard, Agnus Dei, qui tolis peccata with your glory. fund-raising strategies. Her phenomenal Christina & Humphrey Burton, Noémie mundi, Lord Jesus Christ, the Only- Hosanna in the highest. support over the months of planning has Brochard, Sophia Canonico, Desmond Cecil, misere nobis. begotten Son. Blessed is He Who comes in been pivotal to Love Abide – she even HS, Toby & Eira Jessel, Maryline Kulawik, Agnus Dei, qui tollis peccata Lord God, Lamb of God, the Name of the Lord. provided her gorgeous son Gilles, for our Caroline Lewis, William Loschert & George mundi, Son of the Father. Hosanna in the highest. treble solos. I would also like to thank the Maher, Tony & Joan Macklow-Smith, Simon dona nobis pacem. You who take away the sins following people for their indispensible help Marshall-Lockyer, Camilla Panufnik, Soli of the world, have mercy and advice: Stefan Bown, Chloë Brookes, Deo Gloria Ltd., Twenty Choir Parents, on us. » 14 Agnus Dei Marc Dooley, Simon Funnell, Felicity Peggy Walford and those sponsors who wish » 11 Kyrie You who take away the sins Hilton, Stephen Macklow-Smith, Camilla to remain anonymous. of the world, receive our Lamb of God, Who take Panufnik, Ian Roberts, Simon Thomsett, Lord, have mercy prayer. away the sins of the world, Christ, have mercy You who sit at the right hand have mercy on us. Robin Tyson and especially Mischa Lord, have mercy of the Father, have mercy Lamb of God, Who take Giankovich for her stunning videos of Love is on us. away the sins of the world, the Master and Zen Love Song. For You alone are holy. You grant us peace. » 12 Gloria alone are Lord. Please do visit www.loveabide.com where you’ll find the videos, photos from the Glory to God in the highest. You alone are the Most High, recording sessions, more detailed programme And on earth peace to people Jesus Christ. notes on each track and resources for choirs “If I have all faith, so as to remove mountains, of good will. With the Holy Spirit, in the wanting to perform the works. but have not love, I am nothing.” We praise You. We bless You. Glory of God the Father. We worship You. We glorify Amen. Chapter 13, Paul’s 1st letter to the You. Corinthians, the Bible

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03388 JC 28pp Roxanna Panufnik – Love Abide SIGCD564 v4.indd 16-17 30/11/2018 17:01 » 10 Agnus Dei We give You thanks for Your » 13 Sanctus & Benedictus ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS SPONSORS & DONATORS great glory. Solos: Ben Fleetwood Smyth Holy, Holy, Holy Deepest and heartfelt gratitude goes to the With eternal and enormous thanks to the tenor Lord God, heavenly King, Lord God of Hosts. wonderful Jenny Sinclair – who helped me following people who made Love Abide God the Father almighty. Heaven and earth are filled from Day 1 to structure my project and happen: Brenda Baldwin, Andrew Bernard, Agnus Dei, qui tolis peccata with your glory. fund-raising strategies. Her phenomenal Christina & Humphrey Burton, Noémie mundi, Lord Jesus Christ, the Only- Hosanna in the highest. support over the months of planning has Brochard, Sophia Canonico, Desmond Cecil, misere nobis. begotten Son. Blessed is He Who comes in been pivotal to Love Abide – she even HS, Toby & Eira Jessel, Maryline Kulawik, Agnus Dei, qui tollis peccata Lord God, Lamb of God, the Name of the Lord. provided her gorgeous son Gilles, for our Caroline Lewis, William Loschert & George mundi, Son of the Father. Hosanna in the highest. treble solos. I would also like to thank the Maher, Tony & Joan Macklow-Smith, Simon dona nobis pacem. You who take away the sins following people for their indispensible help Marshall-Lockyer, Camilla Panufnik, Soli of the world, have mercy and advice: Stefan Bown, Chloë Brookes, Deo Gloria Ltd., Twenty Choir Parents, on us. » 14 Agnus Dei Marc Dooley, Simon Funnell, Felicity Peggy Walford and those sponsors who wish » 11 Kyrie You who take away the sins Hilton, Stephen Macklow-Smith, Camilla to remain anonymous. of the world, receive our Lamb of God, Who take Panufnik, Ian Roberts, Simon Thomsett, Lord, have mercy prayer. away the sins of the world, Christ, have mercy You who sit at the right hand have mercy on us. Robin Tyson and especially Mischa Lord, have mercy of the Father, have mercy Lamb of God, Who take Giankovich for her stunning videos of Love is on us. away the sins of the world, the Master and Zen Love Song. For You alone are holy. You grant us peace. » 12 Gloria alone are Lord. Please do visit www.loveabide.com where you’ll find the videos, photos from the Glory to God in the highest. You alone are the Most High, recording sessions, more detailed programme And on earth peace to people Jesus Christ. notes on each track and resources for choirs “If I have all faith, so as to remove mountains, of good will. With the Holy Spirit, in the wanting to perform the works. but have not love, I am nothing.” We praise You. We bless You. Glory of God the Father. We worship You. We glorify Amen. Chapter 13, Paul’s 1st letter to the You. Corinthians, the Bible

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03388 JC 28pp Roxanna Panufnik – Love Abide SIGCD564 v4.indd 16-17 30/11/2018 17:01 Roxanna Panufnik

Roxanna panufnik (b.1968, ARAM, GRSM hons, the World Orchestra for Peace and premiered in LRAM) studied composition at the Royal Academy Jerusalem and London under the baton of Valery of Music and, since then, has written a wide range Gergiev, in 2008 and at the 2014 BBC Proms. of pieces – opera, ballet, music theatre, choral works, orchestral and chamber compositions, and Her 2017 opera Silver Birch, commissioned by music for film and television – which are performed Garsington Opera, was met with great audience and all over the world. critical acclaim.

Roxanna has a great love of world music – this The 2018–19 season includes some exciting Where there is FAITH, there is LOVE has culminated in her Four World Seasons for projects, including two major choral-orchestral Where there is LOVE, there is PEACE violinist Tasmin Little, the world premiere of works for and Roxanna’s 50th Birthday year, Where there is PEACE, there is GOD which was picked by BBC Radio 3 to launch for the BBC Last Night of the Proms and a co- their Music Nations weekend, celebrating the commissioned oratorio Faithful Journey for City of Where there is GOD, there is BLISS London Olympics; her Warner Classics CD Dance Birmingham Symphony Orchestra and National of Life: Tallinn Mass for Tallinn Philharmonic Radio Symphony Orchestra of Poland, marking (tallinnmass.com), commissioned to celebrate Poland’s centenary as an independent state and Sri Sathya Sai Baba Tallinn’s reign as European Capital of Culture. a new commission from Marin Alsop, for the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra in 2019. She is especially interested in building musical bridges between faiths and her first project in Roxanna’s compositions are published by Peter’s this field was the violin concerto Abraham, Edition Ltd and recorded on many labels including commissioned for Daniel Hope, incorporating Warner Classics, Signum, Chandos, and EMI Christian, Islamic and Jewish chant to create Classics. a musical analogy for the fact that these three faiths believe in the same one God. This work roxannapanufnik.com was subsequently converted into an overture for

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03388 JC 28pp Roxanna Panufnik – Love Abide SIGCD564 v4.indd 18-19 30/11/2018 17:01 Lee Ward Lee first met Roxanna Panufnik whilst in this role (Opera North)‚ Adalgisa Norma and Amneris Aida Recordings include the title role in Rutland and commissioned the Schola Missa de Angelis, (Opera Holland Park)‚ Herodias Salome (Northern Boughton’s Queen of Cornwall (Dutton)‚ Honour Lee is Director of Music at Liverpool Cathedral performing it around the United Kingdom in a Ireland Opera)‚ the world premiere of Julian Grant’s Tom Jones (Naxos) and chamber versions of both where he directs the fine choirs of boys, girls and lay number of concerts and services. He frequently Hot House (ROH‚ part of London 2012 Cultural Mahler’s Fourth Symphony and Les nuits d’été clerks and also the chamber ensemble Liverpool24. performed and recorded Roxanna’s works as Olympiad); and Donna in the world premiere of (Somm). He has oversight of a huge choral outreach conductor and organist. David Sawer’s Skin Deep (Opera North and for the programme and also a significant programme of Royal Danish Opera‚ Copenhagen). musical education within the cathedral. He gives The Schola made several concert tours in Europe Mark Stone frequent organ recitals in the cathedral and beyond and the USA including singing for the Beatification Her interest in contemporary music was initiated and has acted as accompanist to the Royal Liverpool of John Henry Newman by Pope Benedict XVI, at by a recital for the Park Lane Group at the Purcell Baritone Mark Stone studied mathematics at King’s Philharmonic Choir and organist for the RLPO. which service Lee played the organ in Birmingham, Room where she performed Nicholas Maw’s The College, Cambridge, and singing at the Guildhall broadcast across the globe. Voice of Love and premiered David Matthews’ From School of Music and Drama. In 1998 he was Previously Lee was Organist at the Basilica of São Coastal Stations. She has since performed Miss awarded the Decca Prize at the Kathleen Ferrier Bento in, São Paulo, Brazil for some six years. Lee was also Director of Music at Hampstead Parish Donnithorne’s Maggot by Maxwell Davies‚ Pierrot Awards. There, he formed the São Paulo Organ School and Church for some 18 years, working with a fine Lunaire by Schoenberg and Nouvelles Aventures by was organist to OSESP and the Theatro Municpal. professional choir and a wonderful Willis organ. Ligeti. Recent operatic engagements include Wozzeck He gave frequent organ recitals across South at Geneva Opera, Protector (Written on Skin) at America. In addition, he was Director of Music at Heather’s oratorio and recital repertoire includes Philadelphia Opera, the title role in Don Giovanni St. Paul’s British School running a large department Heather Shipp Elgar’s The Kingdom‚ The Dream of Gerontius and at the Deustche Oper Berlin, Hamburg State delivering a traditional British musical curriculum. Sea Pictures‚ Chausson’s Poème de l’amour et de la Opera and at the New Zealand Opera; Mountjoy Heather studied at Trinity College of Music‚ mer‚ Mahler’s Lieder eines Fahrenden Gesellen and (Gloriana) and Valmont (Francesconi’s Quartett) Lee was Director of Music at The London London and the National Opera Studio. Known de Falla’s El amor brujo. Concerts include Opera at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden; Storch Oratory School where he also ran the London for her versatility and engaging stage-persona‚ North’s Opera Prom in the Park‚ the biggest free (Intermezzo) at Garsington Opera; Ned Keene (Peter Oratory Schola, a renowned boys’ and men’s she regularly appears with the UK’s major opera classical music concert in the UK‚ Verdi’s Requiem Grimes) with the London Philharmonic Orchestra choir. In addition to its liturgical responsibilities companies. Engagements include Magdalene Die (Winchester Cathedral)‚ The Kingdom (Kings and Vladimir Jurowski and at the Beijing Festival; at Brompton Oratory, the choir made several Meistersinger von Nürnberg (Royal Opera House College‚ Cambridge) and Mozart Mass in C minor Il Conte (Le nozze di Figaro) at the Welsh National recordings ranging from ancient and modern and at Symphony Hall‚ Birmingham)‚ Carmen with the London Mozart Players and Basingstoke Opera and in Hamburg; Faninal (Der Rosenkavalier) settings of Ave Maria to film scores (Lord of the (title role)‚ 2nd Norn/Waltraute Der Ring‚ Sorceress Choral Society. for the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra Rings, Harry Potter, The Fantastic Mister Fox etc.) Dido and Aeneas and Mad Margaret Ruddigore with Andris Nelsons; Kurwenal (Tristan und Isolde)

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03388 JC 28pp Roxanna Panufnik – Love Abide SIGCD564 v4.indd 20-21 30/11/2018 17:01 Lee Ward Lee first met Roxanna Panufnik whilst in this role (Opera North)‚ Adalgisa Norma and Amneris Aida Recordings include the title role in Rutland and commissioned the Schola Missa de Angelis, (Opera Holland Park)‚ Herodias Salome (Northern Boughton’s Queen of Cornwall (Dutton)‚ Honour Lee is Director of Music at Liverpool Cathedral performing it around the United Kingdom in a Ireland Opera)‚ the world premiere of Julian Grant’s Tom Jones (Naxos) and chamber versions of both where he directs the fine choirs of boys, girls and lay number of concerts and services. He frequently Hot House (ROH‚ part of London 2012 Cultural Mahler’s Fourth Symphony and Les nuits d’été clerks and also the chamber ensemble Liverpool24. performed and recorded Roxanna’s works as Olympiad); and Donna in the world premiere of (Somm). He has oversight of a huge choral outreach conductor and organist. David Sawer’s Skin Deep (Opera North and for the programme and also a significant programme of Royal Danish Opera‚ Copenhagen). musical education within the cathedral. He gives The Schola made several concert tours in Europe Mark Stone frequent organ recitals in the cathedral and beyond and the USA including singing for the Beatification Her interest in contemporary music was initiated and has acted as accompanist to the Royal Liverpool of John Henry Newman by Pope Benedict XVI, at by a recital for the Park Lane Group at the Purcell Baritone Mark Stone studied mathematics at King’s Philharmonic Choir and organist for the RLPO. which service Lee played the organ in Birmingham, Room where she performed Nicholas Maw’s The College, Cambridge, and singing at the Guildhall broadcast across the globe. Voice of Love and premiered David Matthews’ From School of Music and Drama. In 1998 he was Previously Lee was Organist at the Basilica of São Coastal Stations. She has since performed Miss awarded the Decca Prize at the Kathleen Ferrier Bento in, São Paulo, Brazil for some six years. Lee was also Director of Music at Hampstead Parish Donnithorne’s Maggot by Maxwell Davies‚ Pierrot Awards. There, he formed the São Paulo Organ School and Church for some 18 years, working with a fine Lunaire by Schoenberg and Nouvelles Aventures by was organist to OSESP and the Theatro Municpal. professional choir and a wonderful Willis organ. Ligeti. Recent operatic engagements include Wozzeck He gave frequent organ recitals across South at Geneva Opera, Protector (Written on Skin) at America. In addition, he was Director of Music at Heather’s oratorio and recital repertoire includes Philadelphia Opera, the title role in Don Giovanni St. Paul’s British School running a large department Heather Shipp Elgar’s The Kingdom‚ The Dream of Gerontius and at the Deustche Oper Berlin, Hamburg State delivering a traditional British musical curriculum. Sea Pictures‚ Chausson’s Poème de l’amour et de la Opera and at the New Zealand Opera; Mountjoy Heather studied at Trinity College of Music‚ mer‚ Mahler’s Lieder eines Fahrenden Gesellen and (Gloriana) and Valmont (Francesconi’s Quartett) Lee was Director of Music at The London London and the National Opera Studio. Known de Falla’s El amor brujo. Concerts include Opera at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden; Storch Oratory School where he also ran the London for her versatility and engaging stage-persona‚ North’s Opera Prom in the Park‚ the biggest free (Intermezzo) at Garsington Opera; Ned Keene (Peter Oratory Schola, a renowned boys’ and men’s she regularly appears with the UK’s major opera classical music concert in the UK‚ Verdi’s Requiem Grimes) with the London Philharmonic Orchestra choir. In addition to its liturgical responsibilities companies. Engagements include Magdalene Die (Winchester Cathedral)‚ The Kingdom (Kings and Vladimir Jurowski and at the Beijing Festival; at Brompton Oratory, the choir made several Meistersinger von Nürnberg (Royal Opera House College‚ Cambridge) and Mozart Mass in C minor Il Conte (Le nozze di Figaro) at the Welsh National recordings ranging from ancient and modern and at Symphony Hall‚ Birmingham)‚ Carmen with the London Mozart Players and Basingstoke Opera and in Hamburg; Faninal (Der Rosenkavalier) settings of Ave Maria to film scores (Lord of the (title role)‚ 2nd Norn/Waltraute Der Ring‚ Sorceress Choral Society. for the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra Rings, Harry Potter, The Fantastic Mister Fox etc.) Dido and Aeneas and Mad Margaret Ruddigore with Andris Nelsons; Kurwenal (Tristan und Isolde)

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03388 JC 28pp Roxanna Panufnik – Love Abide SIGCD564 v4.indd 20-21 30/11/2018 17:01 for the London Symphony Orchestra with Daniel A keen recitalist, he has sung in New York at The ensemble is a Decca Classics artist and has of London conservatoires. Some of the singers also Harding and tours to the US as the Ferryman in Carnegie’s Weill Hall; at Wigmore Hall and St released recordings that have all reached the top of work professionally in churches and cathedrals Netia Jones’ acclaimed production of Britten’s John’s Smith Square in London; at the Oxford the classical charts. VOCES8 has premiered many around London. Curlew River. His many roles at the English Lieder Festival and Buxton Festivals. commissions, and in 2019 will premiere a new work National Opera have included Don Giovanni, Il by Jonathan Dove marking the culmination of his The choir has rapidly grown a national reputation Conte (Le nozze di Figaro), Guglielmo (Cosi fan markstone.info period as Composer in Residence. for ‘dynamic and passionate’ performances, tutte), Marcello (La bohème), Figaro (Il barbiere including those for audiences such as TRH Prince di Siviglia), Enrico (Lucia di Lammermoor), Silvio VOCES8 is passionate about music education and and Princess Michael of Kent, Tony Blair and Pope (I Pagliacci), Chou-en-Lai (Nixon in China) and Voces8 is the flagship ensemble of the music charity VCM Benedict, in addition to working for such great Prince Yamadori in Anthony Minghella’s production Foundation. It is Associate Ensemble for Cambridge conductors as James MacMillan and ensembles of Madama Butterfly. The British vocal ensemble VOCES8 is proud to University and delivers a Masters programme in such as the Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra. inspire people through music and share the joy of choral studies. It publishes music with Edition International engagements have taken the choir to Recent concerts include Totentanz with the singing. Touring globally, the group performs an Peters, and this season sees music scores released Latvia, Poland, France and Italy. Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra and Daniel extensive repertory both in its a cappella concerts onto the Tido App. Harding, also with the New York Philharmonic, and in collaborations with leading orchestras, The choir takes pride in the diversity of its Rotterdam Philharmonic and Finnish Radio conductors and soloists. www.voces8.com repertoire, from Bach to contemporary works Symphony Orchestra with Thomas Adés; The of composers such as Roxanna Panufnik for this Kammerorchester Basel and Paul Goodwin VOCES8 has performed at many notable venues, release. (Messiah), the São Paulo Symphony Orchestra from Wigmore Hall to NCPA Beijing and Palacio Colla Voce Singers (Stravinsky Canticles), Orchestre Dijon Bourgogne de Bellas Artes Mexico City. Touring highlights of and Gergely Madaras (Brahms Requiem), Helsinki 2018–19 include debut visits to Australia, including The critically acclaimed London chamber choir Exultate Singers Philharmonic, CBSO and the Royal Liverpool a debut at the Sydney Opera House and Lithuania, Colla Voce Singers was founded in 2005 by Philharmonic with John Storgards (Belshazzar’s as well as concerts throughout the UK and Europe, a talented group of recently-graduated choral Exultate Singers was founded by its conductor Feast), and the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra the USA and Japan. It will perform with the scholars, many former pupils of The London David Ogden in 2002 and has gone on to give with Andrew Manze (A Sea Symphony). Academy of Ancient Music, Manchester Camerata, Oratory School. Presently under the direction concerts, broadcasts and other appearances in the the Orchestre Philharmonique de Monte-Carlo, of Aidan Coburn, members are now largely UK, Spain, Germany, Poland, Italy, the Czech and with baroque violinist Rachel Podger, with the drawn from current and formal choral scholars of Republic, Croatia, Bosnia and Montenegro. It is critically acclaimed ‘Guardian Angel’ project. universities including Oxford, Cambridge, Royal based in Bristol in the South West of the UK. Holloway and Birmingham, as well as a number

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03388 JC 28pp Roxanna Panufnik – Love Abide SIGCD564 v4.indd 22-23 30/11/2018 17:01 for the London Symphony Orchestra with Daniel A keen recitalist, he has sung in New York at The ensemble is a Decca Classics artist and has of London conservatoires. Some of the singers also Harding and tours to the US as the Ferryman in Carnegie’s Weill Hall; at Wigmore Hall and St released recordings that have all reached the top of work professionally in churches and cathedrals Netia Jones’ acclaimed production of Britten’s John’s Smith Square in London; at the Oxford the classical charts. VOCES8 has premiered many around London. Curlew River. His many roles at the English Lieder Festival and Buxton Festivals. commissions, and in 2019 will premiere a new work National Opera have included Don Giovanni, Il by Jonathan Dove marking the culmination of his The choir has rapidly grown a national reputation Conte (Le nozze di Figaro), Guglielmo (Cosi fan markstone.info period as Composer in Residence. for ‘dynamic and passionate’ performances, tutte), Marcello (La bohème), Figaro (Il barbiere including those for audiences such as TRH Prince di Siviglia), Enrico (Lucia di Lammermoor), Silvio VOCES8 is passionate about music education and and Princess Michael of Kent, Tony Blair and Pope (I Pagliacci), Chou-en-Lai (Nixon in China) and Voces8 is the flagship ensemble of the music charity VCM Benedict, in addition to working for such great Prince Yamadori in Anthony Minghella’s production Foundation. It is Associate Ensemble for Cambridge conductors as James MacMillan and ensembles of Madama Butterfly. The British vocal ensemble VOCES8 is proud to University and delivers a Masters programme in such as the Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra. inspire people through music and share the joy of choral studies. It publishes music with Edition International engagements have taken the choir to Recent concerts include Totentanz with the singing. Touring globally, the group performs an Peters, and this season sees music scores released Latvia, Poland, France and Italy. Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra and Daniel extensive repertory both in its a cappella concerts onto the Tido App. Harding, also with the New York Philharmonic, and in collaborations with leading orchestras, The choir takes pride in the diversity of its Rotterdam Philharmonic and Finnish Radio conductors and soloists. www.voces8.com repertoire, from Bach to contemporary works Symphony Orchestra with Thomas Adés; The of composers such as Roxanna Panufnik for this Kammerorchester Basel and Paul Goodwin VOCES8 has performed at many notable venues, release. (Messiah), the São Paulo Symphony Orchestra from Wigmore Hall to NCPA Beijing and Palacio Colla Voce Singers (Stravinsky Canticles), Orchestre Dijon Bourgogne de Bellas Artes Mexico City. Touring highlights of and Gergely Madaras (Brahms Requiem), Helsinki 2018–19 include debut visits to Australia, including The critically acclaimed London chamber choir Exultate Singers Philharmonic, CBSO and the Royal Liverpool a debut at the Sydney Opera House and Lithuania, Colla Voce Singers was founded in 2005 by Philharmonic with John Storgards (Belshazzar’s as well as concerts throughout the UK and Europe, a talented group of recently-graduated choral Exultate Singers was founded by its conductor Feast), and the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra the USA and Japan. It will perform with the scholars, many former pupils of The London David Ogden in 2002 and has gone on to give with Andrew Manze (A Sea Symphony). Academy of Ancient Music, Manchester Camerata, Oratory School. Presently under the direction concerts, broadcasts and other appearances in the the Orchestre Philharmonique de Monte-Carlo, of Aidan Coburn, members are now largely UK, Spain, Germany, Poland, Italy, the Czech and with baroque violinist Rachel Podger, with the drawn from current and formal choral scholars of Republic, Croatia, Bosnia and Montenegro. It is critically acclaimed ‘Guardian Angel’ project. universities including Oxford, Cambridge, Royal based in Bristol in the South West of the UK. Holloway and Birmingham, as well as a number

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03388 JC 28pp Roxanna Panufnik – Love Abide SIGCD564 v4.indd 22-23 30/11/2018 17:01 The choir has performed on BBC One’s Songs of Kiku Day soloist with Odense Symphony Orchestra (playing Galway, Dame Felicity Lott, Jane Glover, Howard Praise and The One Show, on Classic FM and on Toru Takemitsu’s November Steps) as well as choirs Shelley, Nicola Benedetti, John Suchet and Simon BBC Radio in broadcasts on Radios 2, 3 and 4 and Kiku Day (PhD, London; MFA, Mills; including the Nonsuch Choir and Coro Casa da Callow. The orchestra enjoys an international the World Service. BA, London) is a shakuhachi player and Musica. reputation, touring extensively throughout Europe ethnomusicologist, and works as external lecturer at and the Far East, and records frequently for Naxos, As well as featuring on this recording, Exultate the Royal Academy of Music, Aarhus, Denmark. Day is a founding member of the European Chandos and Hyperion Records. Their Naxos Singers has recorded five CDs, four on its own label Shakuhachi Society, which she now serves as release ‘Flowers of the Field’ in collaboration with and one, All Shall Be Well, for Naxos, which features Day plays jinashi shakuhachi – an older type of chairperson. She was the chair of the Executive City of London Choir, Roderick Williams and the title track by Roxanna Panufnik. shakuhachi with a bore comprised of raw untreated Committee for the 7th World Shakuhachi Festival Hilary Davan Wetton reached No.1 in the Classical bamboo. held at Goldsmiths, University of London and Album Charts. Exultate Singers has collaborated in live concerts the one-day academic conference Shakuhachi with many ensembles including I Fagiolini, His She gave up her studies in classical Western flute Symposium held at SOAS, University of London. The London Mozart Players regularly performs Majestys Sagbutts & Cornetts, City of Birmingham to study honkyoku, the classic solo repertoire of the on London’s premier concert platforms, including Symphony Orchestra, the Dubrovnik Symphony komusō monks of the Fuke sect of Zen Buddhism. Day grew up in Denmark with her Japanese and the Royal Festival Hall, St John’s Smith Square Orchesta, the Jupiter Orchestra, Big Buzzard After studying in Tokyo for 11 years with the American parents. and Cadogan Hall as well as cathedrals and other Boogie Band, the Lochrian Ensemble and Bristol master Okuda Atsuya, she is proud to represent concert venues across the UK. As resident orchestra Ensemble, and with solo instrumentalists including Okuda’s Zensabō style in Europe. of Croydon for 30 years, the ensemble has shown the guitarist Craig Ogden, the cellist Richard May, London Mozart Players an invigorated and growing commitment to the the pianist Olena Shvetsova, and the viola player Day has since her return to Europe dedicated borough’s cultural life. In 2016, LMP relocated its Philip Dukes. her life to the furthering the profile of jinashi Founded in 1949 by Harry Blech to delight office from Fairfield Halls to St John the Evangelist, shakuhachi today, and creating a contemporary audiences with the works of Mozart and Haydn, Upper Norwood, undertaking a rich programme Exultate Singers has commissioned music from repertoire for this ancient instrument. Several the London Mozart Players is the UK’s longest of initiatives within the local community. The Sir James MacMillan, Roxanna Panufnik, Philip composers from different parts of the world have established chamber orchestra. Known for orchestra has brought classical music stars Nicola Moore, Ian Carpenter, Jaakko Mäntyjärvi, David written for her, including Roxanna Panufnik, its unmistakable British roots, the orchestra Benedetti, Leonard Elschenbroich, Sheku Kanneh- Bednall, Toby Young and Naji Hakim. Takahashi Yūji, Frank Denyer, Vytautas has developed an outstanding reputation for Mason and Thomas Trotter to Upper Norwood in Germanavicius, Mogens Christensen, Marisol adventurous, ambitious programming from Baroque world-class performances, and has implemented www.exultatesingers.org Jimenez and Yumi Hara. Day has performed with through to genre-crossing contemporary music. a tailored calendar of events including specialist www.facebook.com/exultate musicians such as Fred Frith, Joanna MacGregor, LMP has enjoyed a long history of association with family concerts and inclusive collaborations with www.twitter.com/exultatesingers Mats Gustafsson and Joëlle Léandre, and as a many of the world’s finest artists including Sir James local community groups and schools.

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03388 JC 28pp Roxanna Panufnik – Love Abide SIGCD564 v4.indd 24-25 30/11/2018 17:01 The choir has performed on BBC One’s Songs of Kiku Day soloist with Odense Symphony Orchestra (playing Galway, Dame Felicity Lott, Jane Glover, Howard Praise and The One Show, on Classic FM and on Toru Takemitsu’s November Steps) as well as choirs Shelley, Nicola Benedetti, John Suchet and Simon BBC Radio in broadcasts on Radios 2, 3 and 4 and Kiku Day (PhD, London; MFA, Mills; including the Nonsuch Choir and Coro Casa da Callow. The orchestra enjoys an international the World Service. BA, London) is a shakuhachi player and Musica. reputation, touring extensively throughout Europe ethnomusicologist, and works as external lecturer at and the Far East, and records frequently for Naxos, As well as featuring on this recording, Exultate the Royal Academy of Music, Aarhus, Denmark. Day is a founding member of the European Chandos and Hyperion Records. Their Naxos Singers has recorded five CDs, four on its own label Shakuhachi Society, which she now serves as release ‘Flowers of the Field’ in collaboration with and one, All Shall Be Well, for Naxos, which features Day plays jinashi shakuhachi – an older type of chairperson. She was the chair of the Executive City of London Choir, Roderick Williams and the title track by Roxanna Panufnik. shakuhachi with a bore comprised of raw untreated Committee for the 7th World Shakuhachi Festival Hilary Davan Wetton reached No.1 in the Classical bamboo. held at Goldsmiths, University of London and Album Charts. Exultate Singers has collaborated in live concerts the one-day academic conference Shakuhachi with many ensembles including I Fagiolini, His She gave up her studies in classical Western flute Symposium held at SOAS, University of London. The London Mozart Players regularly performs Majestys Sagbutts & Cornetts, City of Birmingham to study honkyoku, the classic solo repertoire of the on London’s premier concert platforms, including Symphony Orchestra, the Dubrovnik Symphony komusō monks of the Fuke sect of Zen Buddhism. Day grew up in Denmark with her Japanese and the Royal Festival Hall, St John’s Smith Square Orchesta, the Jupiter Orchestra, Big Buzzard After studying in Tokyo for 11 years with the American parents. and Cadogan Hall as well as cathedrals and other Boogie Band, the Lochrian Ensemble and Bristol master Okuda Atsuya, she is proud to represent concert venues across the UK. As resident orchestra Ensemble, and with solo instrumentalists including Okuda’s Zensabō style in Europe. of Croydon for 30 years, the ensemble has shown the guitarist Craig Ogden, the cellist Richard May, London Mozart Players an invigorated and growing commitment to the the pianist Olena Shvetsova, and the viola player Day has since her return to Europe dedicated borough’s cultural life. In 2016, LMP relocated its Philip Dukes. her life to the furthering the profile of jinashi Founded in 1949 by Harry Blech to delight office from Fairfield Halls to St John the Evangelist, shakuhachi today, and creating a contemporary audiences with the works of Mozart and Haydn, Upper Norwood, undertaking a rich programme Exultate Singers has commissioned music from repertoire for this ancient instrument. Several the London Mozart Players is the UK’s longest of initiatives within the local community. The Sir James MacMillan, Roxanna Panufnik, Philip composers from different parts of the world have established chamber orchestra. Known for orchestra has brought classical music stars Nicola Moore, Ian Carpenter, Jaakko Mäntyjärvi, David written for her, including Roxanna Panufnik, its unmistakable British roots, the orchestra Benedetti, Leonard Elschenbroich, Sheku Kanneh- Bednall, Toby Young and Naji Hakim. Takahashi Yūji, Frank Denyer, Vytautas has developed an outstanding reputation for Mason and Thomas Trotter to Upper Norwood in Germanavicius, Mogens Christensen, Marisol adventurous, ambitious programming from Baroque world-class performances, and has implemented www.exultatesingers.org Jimenez and Yumi Hara. Day has performed with through to genre-crossing contemporary music. a tailored calendar of events including specialist www.facebook.com/exultate musicians such as Fred Frith, Joanna MacGregor, LMP has enjoyed a long history of association with family concerts and inclusive collaborations with www.twitter.com/exultatesingers Mats Gustafsson and Joëlle Léandre, and as a many of the world’s finest artists including Sir James local community groups and schools.

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03388 JC 28pp Roxanna Panufnik – Love Abide SIGCD564 v4.indd 24-25 30/11/2018 17:01 As one of the original pioneers of orchestral ℗ 2019 The copyright in this recording is owned outreach work, LMP has enjoyed a host of by Signum Records Ltd. relationships with schools and music hubs across the UK, working with many teachers and heads of © 2019 The copyright in this CD booklet, notes music to inspire the next generation of musicians and design is owned by Signum Records Ltd. and music lovers. As well as working with schools, LMP continues its 70-year tradition of promoting Executive Producer: Roxanna Panufnik young up-and-coming musicians. Nicola Benedetti, Producer: Phil Rowlands Jacqueline du Pré and Jan Pascal Tortelier are just Engineers: Phil Rowlands, Mike Cox three of many young musical virtuosi championed Animator & booklet imagery: Mischa Giancovich early in their careers by the orchestra. Booklet & artwork design: Marcus Batley, www.dbmasters.co.uk The LMP plays an active part in contemporary music, giving many world premières and Any unauthorised broadcasting, public commissioning new works in recent years by performance, copying or re-recording of Signum composers such as Sir Peter Maxwell Davies, Tarik Compact Discs constitutes an infringement of O’Regan, Sally Beamish, Cecilia McDowall, Lynne copyright and will render the infringer liable to an Plowman, Fraser Trainer and Jonathan Dove. action by law. Licences for public performances or Roxanna Panufnik is Associate Composer for the broadcasting may be obtained from Phonographic LMP. Performance Ltd. All rights reserved. No part of this booklet may be reproduced, stored in a LMP is the only professional orchestra in the UK to retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by be managed both operationally and artistically by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, the players. The orchestra has enjoyed the patronage recording or otherwise, without prior permission of HRH The Earl of Wessex since 1988. from Signum Records Ltd.

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03388 JC 28pp Roxanna Panufnik – Love Abide SIGCD564 v4.indd 26-27 30/11/2018 17:01 As one of the original pioneers of orchestral ℗ 2019 The copyright in this recording is owned outreach work, LMP has enjoyed a host of by Signum Records Ltd. relationships with schools and music hubs across the UK, working with many teachers and heads of © 2019 The copyright in this CD booklet, notes music to inspire the next generation of musicians and design is owned by Signum Records Ltd. and music lovers. As well as working with schools, LMP continues its 70-year tradition of promoting Executive Producer: Roxanna Panufnik young up-and-coming musicians. Nicola Benedetti, Producer: Phil Rowlands Jacqueline du Pré and Jan Pascal Tortelier are just Engineers: Phil Rowlands, Mike Cox three of many young musical virtuosi championed Animator & booklet imagery: Mischa Giancovich early in their careers by the orchestra. Booklet & artwork design: Marcus Batley, www.dbmasters.co.uk The LMP plays an active part in contemporary music, giving many world premières and Any unauthorised broadcasting, public commissioning new works in recent years by performance, copying or re-recording of Signum composers such as Sir Peter Maxwell Davies, Tarik Compact Discs constitutes an infringement of O’Regan, Sally Beamish, Cecilia McDowall, Lynne copyright and will render the infringer liable to an Plowman, Fraser Trainer and Jonathan Dove. action by law. Licences for public performances or Roxanna Panufnik is Associate Composer for the broadcasting may be obtained from Phonographic LMP. Performance Ltd. All rights reserved. No part of this booklet may be reproduced, stored in a LMP is the only professional orchestra in the UK to retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by be managed both operationally and artistically by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, the players. The orchestra has enjoyed the patronage recording or otherwise, without prior permission of HRH The Earl of Wessex since 1988. from Signum Records Ltd.

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03388 JC 28pp Roxanna Panufnik – Love Abide SIGCD564 v4.indd 26-27 30/11/2018 17:01 “Though our feelings come and go, God’s love for us does not.”

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