Performed by NZTrio at their concert "Dramatic Skies - Cirrus", Auckland Concert Chamber, 12 December 2021.
NZTrio - Somi Kim, Ashley Brown, Amalia Hall Photo: Jen Raoult
Andrzej Panufnik was born in Poland in 1914 but fled from there during the second world war. He had to leave all his music scores behind. After the war finished he was able to return to a bombed out Warsaw. His apartment had miraculously survived but a squatter had burnt the scores for heat.
During the 50s, he defected from Poland to the United Kingdom. He was briefly chief conductor of the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra.
This is one of his very early works, written as a student at the age of 19, and one of those that was burned. Luckily, Panufnik was later able to reconstruct it from memory. Despite being written by a young man, it has a profound depth of feeling.
Recorded by RNZ Concert, Auckland Concert Chamber, 12 December 2021
Producer: Tim Dodd; Sound Engineer: Adrian Hollay
