Jenkins Karl - The Karl Jenkins Vocal Album - Voice And Piano

The Karl Jenkins Vocal Album brings you songs of mystery and enchantment from the composer of Adiemus. Favourite numbers from best-selling titles The Armed Man: A Mass for Peace and Requiem rub shoulders with a selection of radiant melodies as performed by Kiri te Kanawa with Karl Jenkins and the London Symphony Orchestra on EMI Classics' Kiri sings Karl.

In recent years Karl Jenkins has become one of the world's best-selling living composers. He continues to conduct his epic Adiemus Live Concerts with distinguished orchestras including the London Philharmonic featuring in Festivals and concerts in Britain and abroad; and his moving choral work The Armed Man: A Mass For Peace is now firmly lodged as a concert favourite. This new work builds on the style which the British public have come to know and adore. Jenkins has set the usual Latin movements of the requiem mass but in keeping with his usual trait of drawing from other cultures he has also set five Japanese haiku ‘death’ poems. Such poems are usually to dowith nature have a single idea and consist of seventeen syllables divided 5-7-5 over three lines. As one can see from the text the Japanese view nature’s water cycle (precipitation) as being synonymous with life. The Western and Eastern texts are combined in two of the haiku movements Having Seen The Moon and Farewell which incorporate the Benedictus and the Agnus Dei respectively. Both are intoned by male voices in a monastic style as a counterpoint to the Japanese text sung by females. The instrumentation of these haiku settings includes the ancient Japanese wind instrument the shakuhachi. Elsewhere as usual Jenkins has used some ethnic drums (e.g. Arabic darabuca Japanese daiko frame drums) and even a hip-hop rhythm in the Dies Irae!

As a composer he recognises no boundaries musical commercial geographical or cultural. His is a way of thinking and composing that is perfectly in tune with the spirit of the times Classic FM MagazineReleased ten years after the original Adiemus albums that helped to make Karl Jenkins' name Adiemus Colores draws inspiration from the sights sounds colours and rhythms of Latin American music.As with the original Adiemus Jenkins combines classical principles with the flavours of world and ethnic music supported by lively Percussion. His Choral writing adopts an invented language with nomeaning like scat singing in jazz. Each movement is named in Spanish after a colour and explores the mood that each evokes for the composer embracing Brazilian samba Argentinian tango and Spanish bolero.Adiemus Colores is scored for Choir and Ensemble with Soloists with a total duration of 75 minutes.

Concerto Grosso for String Orchestra-A Concerto Grosso for String Orchestra by Karl Jenkins presented in full score.

The vocal score for Karl Jenkins' beautiful Jubilate Deo. Scored for SATB Chorus with Organ Accompaniment and optional brass lines.

Karl Jenkins' vibrant Gloria is a large-scale festival piece commissioned by the Really Big Chorus for performance at London's Royal Albert Hall in July 2010. Cast in four movements it sets the traditional Latin text 'Gloria in excelsis Deo' and incorporates a setting of Psalm 150 in alternative Latin and Hebrew texts. Gloria follows Te Deum Stabat Mater and Requiem from the composer of Adiemus and The Armed Man: A Mass for Peace. This edition features a fully realised keyboard reduction for rehearsal purposes.

'Joy to the World' est une série de neuf chants de Noël traditionnels, originaires d'Angleterre, d'Allemagne, de France, d'Espagne, des Etats-Unis et des Caraïbes, dans les arrangements plein de fraîcheur et d'élan de Karl Jenkins. La partition est pour c / Soprano, Choeur Mixte- Choeur De Femmes (Ssa) Ad Lib. Et Ensemble / 80 pages / Partition