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All Shall be Well

11/1/2012, 9 Tracks, 1:00:07

Featuring

  • David Ogden
  • Richard May
  • Rebecca Quiney
  • Oliver Condy
  • Exultate Singers
  • Roxanna Panufnik
  • Gustav Holst
  • Ralph Vaughan Williams
  • Sergei Rachmaninoff
  • John Tavener
  • Henryk Mikołaj Górecki
  • Jaakko Mäntyjärvi
  • Pierre Villette
  • Knut Nystedt

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Recording & Production

This album features the world premiere recording of Roxanna Panufnik's 'All Shall Be Well,' a piece commissioned by the Exultate Singers.

Source: Booklet

Performer Biography

The Exultate Singers, founded in 2002 by David Ogden, have performed over 120 concerts and broadcasts across the UK and Europe, including appearances on BBC Radio and TV.

Source: Booklet

Compositional Technique

In 'All Shall Be Well,' Roxanna Panufnik uses two choirs in stereo around a solo cello to represent a conversation between two fourteenth-century texts.

Source: Booklet

Composition History

Roxanna Panufnik's 'All Shall Be Well' was commissioned by Exultate Singers to mark the twentieth anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall.

Source: Booklet

Composer's Artistic Vision

Roxanna Panufnik's 'All Shall Be Well' sets two fourteenth-century texts, 'Bogurodzica' and a passage from Julian of Norwich's 'Divine Revelations,' which she felt formed a conversation.

Source: Booklet

Performer Biography

Richard May, the cellist on this recording, is a former winner of the BBC TV Young Musician of the Year Competition and has performed internationally as a soloist and chamber musician.

Source: Booklet

Composer Biography

Roxanna Panufnik, a British composer, is the daughter of the renowned composer and conductor Sir Andrzej Panufnik.

Source: Booklet

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