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    Brodsky Quartet - Messages - Andrzej Panufnik: Chamber Works for Strings (2014)

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    Brodsky Quartet - Messages - Andrzej Panufnik: Chamber Works for Strings (2014)

    Brodsky Quartet - Messages - Andrzej Panufnik: Chamber Works for Strings (2014)
    EAC Rip | Flac (Tracks + cue + log) | 322 MB | MP3 320Kbps CBR | 189 MB | 1 CD | Full Scans
    Genre: Classical | Label: Chandos | Catalog Number: 10839

    2014 marks the centenary of Polish-British composer Andrzej Panufnik. Here the Brodsky Quartet joins in this year of reminiscence and celebration with Messages, a recording of works both by Andrzej and his daughter Roxanna Panufnik. String sextets begin and end the disc. In the first, Modlitwa, both father and daughter have composed sections, Roxana Panufnik having contributed to what was originally a vocal work and subsequently made this sextet arrangement. Andrzej Panufnik’s Song to the Virgin Mary also began life in a vocal setting, for a cappella chorus, and was dedicated to his wife, Camilla.

    Andrzej Panufnik’s three string quartets showcase his innovative and expressive musical language. The first contrasts dynamic conversations between individual instruments with beautiful unified quartet textures. String Quartet No. 2 - Messages is inspired by childhood memories of listening to the eerie sounds of a wooden telegraph pole in the wind. String Quartet No. 3 - Wycinanki takes its title from a traditional Polish folk art formed of intricately cut paper. Its movements, five miniature studies, each represent a uniquely shaped and coloured paper-cut from a different corner of Poland.

    Separating these quartets are the two movements of Memories of My Father. Commissioned by the Brodsky Quartet especially for the centenary, it represents a highly personal reflection from Roxana Panufnik on the life and music of her father.

    Composer: Andrzej Panufnik, Roxanna Panufnik
    Performer: Robert Smissen, Richard May
    Orchestra/Ensemble: Brodsky String Quartet

    Reviews: There are numerous examples of father-son composer duos, but I can’t think of another example of father and daughter, apart for Gustav and Imogen Holst. Both Panufniks have seen their music well served in recent years, notably the series of eight discs of the orchestral works of Andrzej from CPO and the well-received choral works of Roxanna. This is not the first recording to pair their works: earlier this year – the centenary of Andrzej’s birth – saw a recording of works for solo piano from BIS (see review).

    Appropriately enough, the disc begins with a work that is a joint effort, though one done separately, as Roxanna’s contribution came after her father’s death. Modlitwa means “prayer” – I only read this after listening to the piece, when the word “lament” had come to mind. The original work by Andrzej in two parts – the first recited, the second sung, with piano accompaniment – sets the words of a Polish poet, Jerzy Pietrkiewicz, a close friend of the composer. After Andrzej’s death, Roxanna was asked by Pietrkiewicz to provide a sung setting for the first part. She has also made arrangements for string quartet, string orchestra, and for this recording, string sextet. Her contribution is placed between her father’s, and its presence is quite obvious in its different style, though this is not to say that it doesn’t fit.

    Andrzej chose not to write a string quartet until his mid-sixties, believing that it was only then that he was ready for the challenge – shades of Brahms and the symphony. The first quartet is based around a single triad, and begins with a sequence of ghostly fragments in the Prelude, with each instrument taking turns to explore the three notes. The second movement Transformations occupies more than two-thirds of the whole work, and the solo playing gives way to various groupings of the four instruments. The fragmentary nature of the first movement remains, but is interspersed with unison sections of great beauty. The final Postlude begins without a pause, and features the most energised music. I wasn’t especially enamoured with the work, but I recognise that it is a product of its time, and I suspect its intricate nature might reveal more secrets on repeated listenings.

    The title of the second quartet refers to a favourite pastime as a child on holiday in the Polish countryside: putting his ear against a wooden telegraph pole to listen to the eerie, semi-musical sounds of the wires vibrating in the wind. In sixth section, played continuously, the work uses just two ideas – a triad and a tetrad – in multiple permutations. The composer described it as being a secret code: “a message made up of squares and triangles, rather than words”. I enjoyed this much more than the first quartet, with the third section (Vivo scherzando) beginning and ending in playful pizzicato with a dramatic bowed middle.

    His final quartet, written in the last sixth months of his life, reflects the highs – a knighthood and a return to his homeland – and the low of impending death. It was written for the London International String Quartet Competition, and is very much a test of a quartet’s ability. The first section – it, too, is played without a pause – is essentially an exercise in bow control, almost continuous playing at relatively low volume with minimal melody or rhythm. The fourth section (Prestissimo possibile) means as fast as possible. At least there are no instructions to then play even faster, as there is in the Schumann G minor piano sonata! Roxanna Panufnik, who wrote the excellent and very personal booklet notes, describes the final section as “some of the most powerfully and intensely moving music that my father wrote”. This is a very episodic piece by nature of the reasons for its composition: suffice to say that each very different episode is beautifully crafted, and equally impressive in their own way. The title refers to a Polish art form of paper cutting.

    The final work on the disc, Song to the Virgin Mary, was originally an a cappella choral work, and is, by quite some margin, the most approachable of the four works by Panufnik senior. It has its origins in Polish folk music and plainchant. While it may not have the complexity of the three quartets, it does have a much greater immediate appeal, and will go on to my oft-played list.

    For reasons that are not really explained in the notes, the two movements of Roxanna’s Memories of my Father are programmed separately, before and after her father’s Quartets 2 and 3. The work was a commission by its performers here. I have to admit to playing the two movements in their natural sequence, rather than the disc order. The first movement includes an arrangement of a Gesualdo motet melody, played without vibrato. The second movement is very, very different, making their separation on the disc easier, and is influenced by the bouzouki music that the composer remembers from childhood holidays in Greece. These playful pizzicato elements are interspersed with more dissonant passages.

    The Brodsky Quartet’s dedication to contemporary classical music is well known; their playing and that of the two extra players in the sextets is faultless. The sound quality is similarly excellent.

    Those following the CPO orchestral series will undoubtedly want this urgently. For those like me just beginning their Panufnik journey, it is hard going in places, but the quality of the writing is undeniable.

    Tracklisting:

    ROXANNA PANUFNIK

    1 Modlitwa (1990 and 1999, revised 2007) 6:36

    ANDRJEZ PANUFNIK

    String Quartet No. 1 (1976, revised 1977) 17:42
    To my wife

    2 Prelude. Senza misura - 3:04
    3 Transformations. - 12:04
    4 Postlude. 2:33

    ROXANNA PANUFNIK

    Memories of My Father (2013) 11:34

    5 O tu, Andrzej 5:57


    ANDRJEZ PANUFNIK

    String Quartet No. 2 'Messages' (1980) 19:25

    6 Adagio misterioso - Andante cantabile - 2:12
    7 Allegretto rubato - Allegro non troppo - 2:30
    8 Andante tranquillo - Più andante, molto tranquillo - Allegro non troppo - 3:11
    9 Vivo scherzando - Vivace con brio - Poco meno mosso - 3:38
    10 Vivace con brio - Vivacissimo, quasi senza misura - Improvvisando 3:28
    11 Allegretto rubato - 0:52
    12 Andane cantabile - Adagio misterioso 3:31

    ROXANNA PANUFNIK

    13 Greek Photostory 5:47


    ANDRJEZ PANUFNIK

    String Quartet No. 3 'Wycinanki' (1990) 10:57

    14 Lento moderato - 2:49
    15 Andantino rubato - 2:08
    16 Allegretto scherzando - 1:26
    17 Prestissimo possibile - 1:34
    18 Adagio sostenuto 3:00
    19 Song to the Virgin Mary (1964, revised 1969) 11:10

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