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Nonsense Texts, Roxanna Panufnik

Aled Jones features choral composers who have rejected traditional texts in favour of nonsense words or no words at all in their music, plus he talks to Roxanna Panufnik about her new Mass for the London Oratory School Schola.

1 hour, 30 minutes

Last on

Sun 2 May 2010 18:30

Music Played

  • Elena Kats鈥怌hernin

    Deep Sea Dreaming

    Performers: Gondwana Voices, Sally Whitwell (piano), Lyn Williams (conductor)

    • ABC Classics, ABC 4769093.
    • 2.
  • Thomas Jannefelt

    Villarosa sarialdi

    Performers: University of Pretoria Camerata, Johann van der Sandt (conductor)

    • Guild, GMCD7246.
    • 9.
  • Roxanna Panufnik

    Westminster Mass (Kyrie & Gloria)

    Performers: Westminster Cathedral Choir, Andrew Reid (organ), City of London Sinfonia, James O鈥橠onnell (director)

    • Teldec 3984280692.
    • 3 & 4.
  • Plainchant Mass

    Missa di Angelis: (Sanctus)

    Performers: Ensemble Polyphonique de Montparnasse

    • Arion Arn58463.
    • 9.
  • Roxanna Panufnik

    Spirit of the Saints

    Performers: The London Oratory School Schola, Kate Smith (Harp), Lee Ward (director)

    • Regent, REGCD293.
    • 7.
  • Frederick Delius

    Two songs to be sung of a summer night on the water

    Performers: The Elysian Singers of London, Matthew Greenall (conductor)

    • Continuum CCD1054.
    • 16 & 17.
  • Jaakko M盲ntyj盲rvi

    Pseudo Yoik

    Performers: University of Pretoria Camerata, Johann van der Sandt (conductor)

    • Guild, GMCD7246.
    • 11.
  • Meredith Monk

    Panda Chant 1 and 2

    Performers: Robert Een, Ching Gonzalez, Andrea Goodman, Wayne Hankin, Naaz Hosseini, Meredith Monk, Nurit Tilles (voices)

    • ECM, 8317822.
    • 6 & 8.
  • Alessandro Scarlatti

    Dixit Dominus

    Performers: Concerto Italiano, Rinaldo Alessandrini (conductor)

    • Na茂ve, OP30350.
    • 1 to 6.
  • Domenico Santangelo

    Sarnia Cherie

    Performers: sung by the islanders of Guernsey on 9th May 1945 on the occasion of their liberation from German occupation

  • Anne Boyd

    As I Crossed a Bridge of Dreams

    Performers: Kammerchor Stuttgart, Frieder Bernius (director)

    • Carus Verlag 83208.
    • 12.

Broadcast

  • Sun 2 May 2010 18:30

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