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There’s a certain formulaic quality to Panufnik’s music, which isn’t necessarily a bad thing if you enjoy the formula. Static episodes often featuring high-lying strings
Panufnik should have subtitled his Symphony No. 6 “Everything you always wanted to know about the number six but were afraid to ask.” What any
Yep, they’re lining up in the streets for this second volume of Panufnik orchestral music. Well, maybe not, but there’s a great deal to enjoy
This is good music, though even in Panufnik’s early works there is a certain sameness of procedure: the slow buildup to a climax that breaks
Panufnik’s music seems to be getting little attention since his death in 1991, and it’s not hard to understand why. Writers on the composer tend
Andrzej Panufnik’s music seems not to be garnering much continued attention in the decade and a half since his death in 1991. He was a
After successful but isolated attempts in the genre by Chopin, Paderewski, and Szymanowski (to be precise, the latter only wrote a Sinfonia Concertante), the piano
Both of these seminal works by Andrzej Panufnik display his penchant for skewed harmonics and extreme orchestral colors. His tactics approach those of Schnittke and