Long live commerce! DalĂ could have said. One commercial can give your career a boost. The music that Karl Jenkins composed for a commercial for Delta Airlines enthused the audience to such an extent that the Adiemus project was born from this, with performances worldwide and three successful albums as a result. After a solid music education, the Welsh composer and multi-instrumentalist took his
… first steps in jazz music and became best known as a member of the jazz rock fusion band Soft Machine. Jenkins then composed music for orchestra, short films, television, theater and commercials. Jenkins' accessible style is a mixture of classical music, film scores and ethnic elements. An outstanding philharmonic orchestra from Kazakhstan led by conductor-violinist Marat Bisengaliev, together with the choirs Serendipity and Caerdydd & Cytgan, will perform two new compositions by Jenkins. Celtic sounds In These Stones, Horizons Sing with solos by bass-baritone Bryn Terfel, harpist Catrin Finch and soprano saxophonist Nigel Hitchcock. The largest work on the CD, the Requiem, is a combination of the Latin mass of the dead with some Japanese haikus about the cycle of life, death and rebirth. (SvdP) s about the cycle of life, death and rebirth. (SvdP) s about the cycle of life, death and rebirth. (SvdP)more