Karl Jenkins – The Very Best Of Karl Jenkins (80th Birthday Edition) (2024) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

Karl Jenkins – The Very Best Of Karl Jenkins (80th Birthday Edition) (2024)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:34:32 minutes | 1,66 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Decca (UMO) (Classics)

A 2CD compilation featuring a selection of the most popular pieces by the nation’s best-loved living composer, Karl Jenkins, celebrating his 80th Birthday. It includes music from best-selling recordings ‘Adiemus’, ‘The Armed Man’, ‘Requiem’, ‘Gloria’, ‘Stabat Mater’, ‘Palladio’ and ‘One World’ as well as a special thank you message from the composer himself. Karl Jenkins, who was awarded a CBE in 2010, is widely recognised as the world’s most popular living composer following a recent poll by renowned cultural commentator Norman Lebrecht. ‘The Armed Man: A Mass for Peace’ is his most performed work, having been performed over 1000 times since its world premiere at London’s Royal Albert Hall in April 2000. Commissioned jointly by The Royal Armouries and Classic FM, it was initially inspired by the Kosovan conflict, but the clear message of hope this work brings to so many resounds even stronger decades later.

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Karl Jenkins – One World (2023) [Official Digital Download 24bit/48kHz]

Karl Jenkins – One World (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 01:08:19 minutes | 707 MB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Decca (UMO) (Classics)

Decca Records is proud to announce a new album from Sir Karl Jenkins, one of the world’s most-performed living composers. The album, One World, was commissioned by Nicol Matt – founder and artistic director of the World Choir for Peace. The choir is joined in this new recording by the World Orchestra for Peace, co-founded by Sir Georg Solti and Charles Kaye in 1995 to reaffirm “the unique strength of music as an ambassador for peace.”

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Karl Jenkins – Symphonic Adiemus (2017) [Official Digital Download 24bit/48kHz]

Karl Jenkins – Symphonic Adiemus (2017)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 58:58 minutes | 667 MB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Decca (UMO) (Classics)

Sir Karl Jenkins presents Symphonic Adiemus, the new album, of epic proportions. Brand new recordings of the greatest moments from the Adiemus series features an extended orchestra of over 100, including over 20 layers of classical and ethnic percussion, and a choir of 80. With judicious use of multi-tracking, there are sometimes over 400 participants heard at any one time.

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Karl Jenkins – Miserere: Songs of Mercy and Redemption (2019) [Official Digital Download 24bit/48kHz]

Karl Jenkins – Miserere: Songs of Mercy and Redemption (2019)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 50:53 minutes | 539 MB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Decca (UMO) (Classics)

Since the release of his Adiemus Project albums and his mass The Armed Man in the 1990s, Karl Jenkins has been one of Britain’s most popular composers. He is disliked by major newspaper critics, but that is of little consequence to the millions who buy his albums and, perhaps more important, to the many choirs that sing his music for the joy of it. Many of Jenkins’ releases fall ingeniously in between the pop and classical forms of album presentation: Miserere might be regarded either as a collection of individual pieces or as a single work. It addresses, in a general way, the theme of ongoing violence in the Middle East, and several pieces use instruments and musical techniques from that region. Sample “Praise, Joy & Gladness,” which uses some of these sounds in an entirely novel fusion with American praise and worship music. Whatever you may think of Jenkins, he can hardly be charged with being derivative. Mostly sung by the choir Polyphony under Stephen Layton, with a variety of vocal and instrumental soloists including cellist Abel Selaocoe, these pieces are in Latin, English, and in a few places biblical Aramaic and Hebrew; are in Western and Middle Eastern styles; are quite personal or fall into the centuries-long tradition of settings of the Miserere text (here, Jenkins approaches the concept of The Armed Man). There are some who will never accept the heart-on-the-sleeve aspect of some of Jenkins’ music, but that’s not all there is to him, and this release shows him to be still going strong in his mid-70s. Recommended.

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Karl Jenkins – Karl Jenkins: Piano (2019) [Official Digital Download 24bit/48kHz]

Karl Jenkins – Karl Jenkins: Piano (2019)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 59:43 minutes | 573 MB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Decca (UMO) (Classics)

The very best of Sir Karl Jenkins’ music performed by himself on the piano for the very first time! One of the most performed living composers in the world, Sir Karl Jenkins’ prolific career spans the music worlds of classic, jazz, advertising and film.

He was confirmed as the most popular living composer in Classic FM’s ‘Ultimate Hall of Fame’.

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Karl Jenkins – Cantata Memoria – For The Children (2016) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

Karl Jenkins – Cantata Memoria – For The Children (2016)
FLAC (tracks) 24-bit/96 kHz | Time – 00:55:48 minutes | 0,98 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Master, Official Digital Download – Source: prestoclassical.co.uk | © Deutsche Grammophon

Cantata Memoria commemorates through new music the Aberfan tragedy of October 21, 1966, when 116 children and 28 adults tragically lost their lives as a coal tip enveloped Plant Glas school, together with some houses, in Aberfan, South Wales.

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