Beschreibung
The music from the million-selling album, featured on the Delta Air Lines TV commercial. "Adiemus" combines classical and ethnic influences to create a haunting, tribal sound. "Songs of Sanctuary" is an extended choral-type work based on the European classical tradition, but where the vocal sound is more akin to "ethnic" or "world" music. The idea was to have some thematic unity within the work as a whole, rather than a collection of disparate pieces in song form. The structures of "Songs of Sanctuary" are influenced, in the main, by classical form, e. g. modified rondo, ternary, da capo aria. This is of extra importance because of the lack of lyric message that sustains conventional song form. The text was written phonetically with the words viewed as instrumental sound, the idea being to maximise the melisma (an expressive vocal phrase) by removing the distraction, if one can call it that, of words. The sound is universal, as is the language of music. Instrumentation: female choir (SSAA), recorder and piano
Produktsicherheitsverordnung
Hersteller:
Boosey & Hawkes Bote & Bock GmbH Anton J. Benjamin GmbH
musikverlag@boosey.com
Lützowufer 26
DE 10787 Berlin
Autorenportrait
Karl Jenkins verfügt über große Erfahrung auf dem Gebiet der Musikerzeihung. Nach einer klassischen Ausbildung an der Universität Cardiff und der royal Academy of Music in London arbeitet er als Jazzmusiker, unter anderem mit Nucleus und Ronnie Scott. In den siebzigern Jahren war er Mitgleid der progressiven Band Soft Machine. Seine Alben "Adiemus - Songs of Sanctuary", "Adiemus II - Cantata mundi" und "Diamond Music (Palladio)" waren weltweit außergewöhnlich erfolgreich.
