Karl Jenkins: Benedictus: SATB: Vocal Score

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!

Chants sacrés rassemble les plus célèbres et les plus beaux mouvements du compositeur de ' Adiemus '. Cette collection comprend des pièces provenant de ' l'homme armé: une messe pour la paix ', ' Requiem ' et ' Stabat Mater '. Sont inclus les 'Benedictus' (The armés Man), ' Pie Jesu / Choeur Mixte (SATB) Et Orgue (Ou Piano)

Commandé pour le millénaire par Royal Armouries la Grande-Bretagne et dédié aux victimes de la crise du Kosovo, ce travail est un exemple contemporain d'une masse basé sur la chanson française du XVe siècle l'homme armé (l'homme armé). Défini dans le cadre de la masse chrétienne, l'homme armé est une oeuvre majeure de chorale qui utilise des textes sacrés et profanes. / Choeur Mixte (SATB) Et Orchestre

Organ score-Sacred Songs brings together the most famous and beautiful movements from the composer of Adiemus. This collection includes pieces from The Armed Man: A Mass for Peace Requiem and Stabat Mater. Included are Benedictus (The Armed Man) Pie Jesu In Paradisum (Requiem) and Virgo Virginum (Stabat Mater). All the pieces can be performed together or performers can make up their own suite of favourites from those in this volume. Orchestral material is available on hire.