The Best Of Adiemus

Vous avez entendu parler de la musique à la télévision, la Radio et sur CD - maintenant vous pouvez jouer à Adiemus sur votre instrument avec superbes CD backings. Le meilleur de Adiemus contient tous les hits des trois premiers albums graphique-topping Adiemus arrangés pour instrument (accords du ligne plus de guitare mélodie) avec le soutien de CD. / Violon

Karl Jenkins' instantly recognisable song is the theme from Songs Of Sanctuary but is more widely identified as the backdrop to the Delta Airlines television commercial. This fantastic collection lets you explore the best of Adiemus from the three best-selling albums; Songs Of Santuary Cantata Mundi and Dances Of Time. Arranged for Piano Voice and Guitar.

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!

A movement from The Armed Man: A Mass for Peace from Adiemus composer Karl Jenkins. Recently performed by Hayley Westenra on her best-selling album Pure.

29 British gems arranged for the intermediate pianist. / Classique / Partition /