Love Abide

Love Abide encapsulates the very contemporary ethos of multicultural spiritual devotion in a world populated by a rich diversity of faiths - all of them feeling, equally deeply and aesthetically, the compelling potency of music with love. Each work on this CD focuses on a particular mood or sentiment around the theme of love, expressed in a musical language that echoes the origin of the words. Roxanna Panufnik has drawn on texts from different faiths, from the fifteenth-century Zen master Ikkyu - So - yun to the well-loved thirteenth chapter of I Corinthians; from the Christian Mass setting to the fourteenth-century Sufi poet and mystic Rumi, to the ancient Hebrew Psalm 136 (135). She's married a traditional Anglican text with a Catholic one, creating a truly ecumenical Magnificat. Within the music you will hear fragments of Spanish Sephardic chant, Christian plainsong, Sufi rhythms, and a Japanese lullaby to soothe the soul.