Sessions: Concerto for Orchestra – Panufnik: Sinfonia votiva
2/16/2024, 3 Tracks, 38:07
Featuring
Seiji Ozawa
Boston Symphony Orchestra
Andrzej Panufnik
Roger Sessions
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Composer's Artistic Vision
Andrzej Panufnik's compositional approach was unique for his time, characterized by strict geometrical planning and self-imposed limitations that paradoxically created freedom of invention.
Recording & Production
This album features two works commissioned by the Boston Symphony Orchestra for its 100th birthday in 1981: Roger Sessions's Concerto for Orchestra and Andrzej Panufnik's Sinfonia Votiva.
Compositional Technique
Roger Sessions's Concerto for Orchestra, unlike Bartók's, features a single, intricate poetic span without sharp-cut, distinct movements, and avoids spotlighting individual sections, instead having divisions of instrument families contribute individual lines.
Composer Biography
Andrzej Panufnik, a Polish composer, lost all his music composed up to 1944 when it was destroyed in the Warsaw uprising, a personal catastrophe that also claimed his brother's life.
Composition History
Andrzej Panufnik's Sinfonia Votiva is a personal 'votive offering' to the Black Madonna of Czestochowa, a sacred symbol of Independent Poland, and was influenced by the turmoil in Poland during its composition.
Performer Biography
Roger Sessions, the composer of the Concerto for Orchestra, first heard the Boston Symphony Orchestra at age fourteen and stated that its orchestral sound strongly affected his own style of orchestral writing.
Recording & Production
Andrzej Panufnik, the composer of Sinfonia Votiva, was present during the recording of his work on January 30, 1982, in Symphony Hall, Boston.
