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2 unusual facts about Roxanna Panufnik


Roxanna Panufnik

The Music Programme (1999), a chamber opera commissioned by Polish National Opera (based on a novel by Paul Micou)

Among her most widely performed works are Westminster Mass, commissioned for Westminster Cathedral Choir on the occasion of Cardinal Hume's 75th birthday, The Music Programme, an opera for Polish National Opera's millennium season which received its UK premiere at the BOC Covent Garden Festival, and settings for solo voices and orchestra of Vikram Seth's Beastly Tales - the first of which was commissioned by the BBC for Patricia Rozario and City of London Sinfonia.


Exultate Singers

Notable performances have included James MacMillan's Seven Last Words From The Cross; Bach's Mass in B minor and St Matthew Passion; Roxanna Panufnik's Westminster Mass; Alessandro Scarlatti's St Cecilia Mass; and Duke Ellington's Sacred Concert.


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