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This Week's Guest:
Karl Jenkins
10 December 2006
Repeated
15 December 2006
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Karl's Choice |
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Kirsty Young's castaway this week is Britain’s most successful contemporary composer, Karl Jenkins.
He is most famous for developing a style that fuses his classical background with his interest in jazz and world music and his albums top the charts around the world.
He was brought up in a small Welsh village and, after his mother died, lived with his father, grandmother and widowed aunt. His father taught him the piano when he was a child and in his teens he gravitated towards the oboe and went on to study at the Royal Academy of Music.
His first musical career was as a jazz musician - he won first prize at the Montreux Jazz Festival and played venues as diverse as Carnegie Hall and Ronnie Scott's. In the 1980s, he gave up life on the road and started writing advertising music and jingles. More awards followed, but he felt cramped by the nature of the work and wanted to write music that was more expansive. A track which he'd written for a minute long commercial went on to become the corner-stone of his most well-known work, The Adiemus Project.
He's said that it was only then that he realised his niche lay in composing work that was grounded in his classical upbringing but also benefited from his interest in jazz and world music. And, while critics have on occasion, sneered at his work; he has collected countless gold and platinum discs and a worldwide audience. |
1.The Prize Song from Wagner’s the Mastersingers of Nuremburg
Performer Placido Domingo with the Orchestra of the German Opera of Berlin conducted by Eugen Jochu
Composer Wagner
CD Title Die Meistersinger
Track Cd4 trk 13
Label Deutsche Grammophon
Rec No :4152782
2. Part of the first movement of Bach’s Concerto for Violin, Oboe & Strings in C Minor
Performer Marieke Blankestijn, Douglas Boyd & the Chamber of Orchestra of Europe conducted by Alexander Schneider.
Composer Bach
CD Title Mozart:J.S.Bach:Vivaldi: the Chamber Orchestra of Europe
Track 4
Label ASV
Rec No:CDCPE803
3. Blue in Green
Performer Miles Davis
Composer Miles Davis
CD Title Kind of Blue
Track 3
Label Columbia
Rec No:CK64935
4.The Goodbye Look
Performer Donald Fagen
Composer Donald Fagen
CD Title Nightfly
Track 7
Label WARNER
Rec No:9236962
5. Part of the Adagietto from Mahler’s Symphony No 5 in C Sharp Minor
Performer London Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by Klaus Tennstedt
Composer Mahler
CD Title Symphony No.5
Track 4
Label EMI
Rec No: CDC7498882
6. Birdland
Performer Weather Report
Composer Josef Zawinul
CD Title Cool Cuts:14 of the Jazziest Funkiest Sounds
Track 6
Label Old Gold
Rec No:OG3308
7.Part of the Benedictus from the Armed Man: A Mass for Peace
Performer London Philharmonic Orchestra
Composer Karl Jenkins
CD Title The Armed Man (a Mass for Peace)
Track 12
Label Venture
Rec No:CDVE956
8.The final trio from the 3rd Act of Strauss’s Der Rosenkavalier
Performer Kiri Te Kanawa, Anne Sofie Von Otter and Barbara Hendricks
Composer Strauss
CD Title Der Rosenkavalier
Track Cd3 trk 18
Label EMI
Rec No:CDS7542592
Record: Der Rosenkavalier
Book: The Michelin guide to France
Luxury: A piano
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