Karl Jenkins

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