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ADIEMUS REQUIEM SONG S OF SANCTUARY SATB chorus and orchestra SSA chorus and orchestra vocal score, chorus and piano reduction vocal score, chorus and piano reduction Karl Jenkins’ Requiem sets the traditional Latin The music from the million-selling album, text of the Requiem mass, including the extra featured on the Delta Air Lines TV commercial, movements included by Fauré and Duruflé –Pie Adiemus combines classical and ethnic influences Jesu and In paradisum. These are interspersed to create a haunting, tribal sound. Contents: with haiku “death” poems (sung in Japanese) Adiemus • Tintinnabulum • In caelum fero • whose delicate, epigrammatic texts provide a Cantus iteratus • Kayama • Hymn. peaceful commentary on the liturgical words. The result is a deeply 48011727. $19.95 moving expression of spirituality, whose musical tying together of different cultures provides a link that is highly appropriate to the CANTATA MUNDI modern world. This powerful book will appeal to choirs wanting to sing an unusual but appealing and effective piece: the full scoring of SUITE FROM ADIEMU S II SSA chorus and orchestra the work includes a part for Japanese flute (shakuhachi) and an array vocal score, chorus and piano reduction of unusual drums. Contents: Song of Tears • Za Ma Ba • Song 48018952 . $24.95 of the Spirit • Arama Ivi • Song of the Plains • Sol-Fa • Song of the Trinity • A Ma Ka Ma. STABAT MATER 48011823 . $21.95 contralto solo, SATB chorus and orchestra vocal score, chorus and piano reduction A major new choral/orchestral work from the THE ARMED MAN composer of Adiemus and The Armed Man. A MA ss FOR PEACE The 13th-century Latin sequence, set by many SATB chrous and orchestra famous composers of the past, receives a fresh vocal score, chorus and expression and intensity in Karl Jenkins’s setting. piano or organ reduction The work is divided into twelve movements and This is a powerful and compelling account of the incorporates additional texts including “Ave verum corpus” (originally descent into war and its terrible consequences. composed for Bryn Terfel), “Lament” by Carol Barratt, and English Dedicated to the victims of the Kosovo conflict, texts derived from ancient Babylonian and medieval Persian this work is a contemporary example of a mass sources. By turns dramatic and reflective, Stabat Mater will be based on the 15th-century French song “L’homme armé.” Set within eagerly seized on by Jenkins fans everywhere. Suitable for choirs the framework of the Latin mass, The Armed Man is a major choral of intermediate standard upwards. The work is approximately 62 work which uses both sacred and secular texts. minutes in duration. 48012252 . $22.95 48019797 . $18.95 THE ARMED MAN SacRED SONGS (CHORAL SUITE) SATB chorus and organ/piano A MA ss FOR PEACE Seven movements from various large works: SATB chorus and piano or organ reduction Ave verum; And the Mother did weep; Virgo Includes 5 movements excerpted from the Mass: virginum (Stabar Mater) • Agnus Dei; Benedictus Kyrie • Sanctus • Benedictus • Agnus Dei • Hymn (The Armed Man: A Mass for Peace) • Pie Jesu; Before Action. In paradisum (Requiem). 48012172 . $14.95 48019946 . $17.99 Prices, contents and availability subject to change without notice and may vary outside the U.S.A. KARL JENKINS Other CD releases have been Requiem, which went to No. 1 was born in Wales (Feb- in the UK classical charts, Kiri Sings Karl with Dame Kiri ruary 17, 1944) studied Te Kanawa, and This Land of Ours, a musical celebration of music at the University of Welsh culture featuring the Cory Band [winners of the 2007 Wales, Cardiff. He then British Open Championship] and the male choir, Cantorion. commenced postgraduate His most recent project is Stabat Mater, which was released studies at the Royal Academy of Music, London. It was in by EMI Classics, and Sarykyz, a violin concerto for Marat jazz that he initially made his mark. In those days of ‘Jazz Bisengaliev. Polls” he was a prolific poll winner, playing at London’s famous Ronnie Scott’s club before co-forming Nucleus, who Karl holds a D.Mus [Doctor of Music] degree from the Uni- won first prize at the Montreux jazz festival and appeared at versity of Wales, has been made both a Fellow and an Associ- the Newport Jazz Festival, Rhode Island. This was followed ate of the Royal Academy of Music, where a room has been by a period with Soft Machine, one of the seminal bands named in his honour. He has fellowships at Cardiff University, of the 1970s. Through many incarnations, ‘Softs’ defied the Royal Welsh College of Music & Drama, Trinity College categorization playing venues as diverse as Carnegie Hall, Carmarthen, Swansea Institute and was presented by Classic the classical BBC Proms at the Royal Albert Hall, and the FM with the “Red f” award for “outstanding service to clas- Reading Festival. sical music.” He was awarded an honorary doctorate [music] from the University of Leicester, the Chancellors Medal from In the field of advertising music he has won the prestigious the University of Glamorgan and two Honorary visiting Pro- D&AD award for best music [twice], the ‘Creative Circle fessorships, one at Thames Valley University/London Col- Gold’ and several ‘Clios’ [New York] and ‘Golden Lions’ lege of Music and the other at the ATriUM, Cardiff. [Cannes]. Credits include Levi’s, British Airways, Renault, Volvos, C&G, Tag Heuer, Pepsi as well as US/global cam- He was awarded an OBE, by Her Majesty The Queen, in the paigns for De Beers and Delta Airlines. 2005 New Years Honours List “for services to music.” After this period as a media composer, his return to the music mainstream was initially marked by the success of the Adie- mus project. Adiemus, combining a classical base with ethnic vocal sounds, ethnic percussion and an invented language, topped classical and pop charts around the world, gaining 17 gold or platinum album awards while performing in Tokyo, Madrid, London, Helsinki, Munich etc. The Armed Man: A Mass For Peace, commissioned by the Royal Armouries for the millennium and premiered at the Royal Albert Hall, London, has had over hundreds perfor- mances in recent years, while the CD, featuring the National Youth Choir of Great Britain and the London Philharmonic Orchestra, gained “Gold Disc” status in the UK. 90005772.