Composer of the Week: Karl Jenkins

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Composer of the Week: Karl Jenkins: From Advertising to Adiemus

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Karl Jenkins

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Donald Macleod meets composer Sir Karl Jenkins on the eve of his 80th birthday.

Donald Macleod meets Sir Karl Jenkins on the eve of his 80th birthday, today exploring his years of creativity in the advertising industry and the huge success of Adiemus.

In these special programmes composer Sir Karl Jenkins joins Donald Macleod to talk about his life and music. When the band Soft Machine came to an end in the early 1980s – petering out ‘softly’ -- Karl Jenkins had no plan in place for what he would do next. But fate took a hand and he unexpectedly found himself in demand as a composer and arranger for adverts. It was a busy, exciting period which might seem distinct from his later success in the concert hall, but… one thing leads to another – and today we’ll be hearing some of his music that crossed over from advertising to the concert hall, in the form of his original Adiemus project – and the concerto grosso Palladio. We end with extracts from Gloria, and an example of his new ‘mission’ for the new millennium: to reinterpret the texts that virtually all great composers set, such as Requiem, Stabat Mater, Te Deum etc, but with some of the multicultural elements that made Adiemus so distinctive.

Cantilena
London Philharmonic Choir
Adiemus Symphony Orchestra of Europe
Karl Jenkins, composer

Adiemus
Miriam Stockley, vocals
Jody K Jenkins, percussion
Mick Taylor, flute
London Philharmonic Orchestra
Karl Jenkins, conductor

Hymn
Miriam Stockley, vocals
London Philharmonic Orchestra
Karl Jenkins, conductor 

Adiemus
Kayama	
Miriam Stockley & Mary Carewe, vocals
Frank Ricotti & Jody K Jenkins, percussion
Mike Taylor, flute
London Philharmonic Orchestra
Karl Jenkins, conductor

Cancion Plateada
Karl Jenkins, piano

Palladio, concerto grosso for string orchestra
i Allegretto
London Symphony Orchestra 
Karl Jenkins, conductor

Lullay, from Stella Natalis
Polyphony
Stephen Layton, conductor

Only Heavenly Music, from Stella Natalis
Kate Royal, soprano
Alison Balsom, trumpet
Jody K Jenkins & Zands Duggan, percussion 
The Adiemus Singers, Marylebone Camerata, Tenebrae
Karl Jenkins, conductor

The Proclamation, from Gloria
Jody K Jenkins, percussion
London Symphony Orchestra & National Youth Choir of Great Britain
Karl Jenkins, conductor

Laudamus Te, from Gloria
Tim Hugh, cello
London Symphony Orchestra & National Youth Choir of Great Britain
Karl Jenkins, conductor

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Donald Macleod talks to multi-instrumentalist and composer Karl Jenkins.

Donald Macleod talks to multi-instrumentalist and composer Karl Jenkins on the eve of his 80th birthday.

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