Karl Jenkins has had a career of contrasts – from accomplished jazz fusion, prog rock and the worlds of film and advertising, to phenomenal success in concert halls around the world as a composer of music that delights audiences and often defies categorisation; music that is rhythmic, emotional – and hugely popular: he just might be the most performed living composer in the world.
In these special programmes, Sir Karl Jenkins joins Donald Macleod to talk about his life and music ahead of the composer’s 80th birthday.
Music Featured:
Benedictus One World: In the Beginning One World: Let’s Go (The Tower of Babel), One World: Yet, Here I Am Sarakiz (Dance) Stabat Mater (excerpt) One World: Tikkun Olam Suo Gan Quirky Blue Hazard Profile, pt 1 Carol Ann La Folia – concerto for marimba and strings Cantata Memoria (excerpt) Cantilena Adiemus Hymn Kayama Cancion Plateada Palladio, concerto grosso for string orchestra (i Allegretto) Stella Natalis (excerpt) Gloria (excerpt) The Peacemakers (excerpt) The Armed Man – A Mass for Peace (excerpt) Quirk (Chasing the Goose) White Water One World: The Golden Age Begins Anew Concerto for Euphonium and Orchestra (‘It takes two…’ Seductively) Over the Stone (iv, Tros y Garreg) One World: Sakura, Spring has Come Requiem (excerpt)
Presented by Donald Macleod Produced by Martin Williams for BBC Audio Wales and West
For full track listings, including artist and recording details, and to listen to the pieces featured in full (for 30 days after broadcast) head to the series page for Karl Jenkins https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m001w1jw
And you can delve into the A-Z of all the composers we’ve featured on Composer of the Week here: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/articles/3cjHdZlXwL7W41XGB77X3S0/composers-a-to-z
Jean Sibelius (1865-1957)
Carla Bley (b 1936)
Luigi Cherubini (1760-1842)
Sofia Gubaidulina (b 1931)
Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750)
Julius Eastman (1940-1990)
Richard Wagner (1813-1883)
Béla Bartók (1881-1945)
Georg Philipp Telemann (1681-1767)
Sergey Rachmaninov (1873-1943)
Josquin and Art
Antonín Dvořák (1841-1904)
Jennifer Higdon (born 1962)
Manuel de Falla (1876-1946)
Hector Berlioz (1803-1869)
Benjamin Britten (1913-1976)
Henry Purcell (1659-1695)
Pauline Viardot and her Circle
Robert Simpson (1921-97)
Gabriel Fauré (1845-1924)
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