Requiem : Karl Jenkins

Titel (DE): Requiem -
Titel (EN): Requiem -
Titel (FR): Requiem -
Komponist / Composer: Jenkins, Karl
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Besetzung / Instrumentation: gemischter Chor (SATB) und Orchester / mixed choir (SATB) and orchestra
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Aufführungsdauer / Duration: 55'
Verlag / Publisher: Boosey & Hawkes
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Ausgabe / Publication: Klavierauszug - Piano reduction -
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Seiten / Pages: 110
Verarbeitung: Broschur - Paperback/Softcover
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Sprache / Language: Lateinisch Japanisch
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ISMN: M-060-11684-1
ISMN-13: 979-0-060-11684-1
ISMN-EAN: 9790060116841
UPC: 73999238532

In recent years Karl Jenkins has become one of the world's best-selling living composers. He continues to conduct his epic Adiemus Live Concerts with distinguished orchestras including the London Philharmonic, featuring in Festivals and concerts in Britain and abroad; and his moving choral work The Armed Man: A Mass For Peace is now firmly lodged as a concert favourite. This new work builds on the style which the British public have come to know and adore. Jenkins has set the usual Latin movements of the requiem mass, but, in keeping with his usual trait of drawing from other cultures, he has also set five Japanese haiku death' poems. Such poems are usually to do with nature, have a single idea, and consist of seventeen syllables divided 5-7-5 over three lines. As one can see from the text, the Japanese view nature's water cycle (precipitation) as being synonymous with life. The Western and Eastern texts are combined in two of the haiku movements, Having Seen The Moon and Farewell, which incorporate the Benedictus and the Agnus Dei respectively. Both are intoned by male voices in a monastic style as a counterpoint to the Japanese text sung by females. The instrumentation of these haiku settings includes the ancient Japanese wind instrument, the shakuhachi. Elsewhere, as usual, Jenkins has used some ethnic drums (e.g. Arabic darabuca, Japanese daiko, frame drums) and even a hip-hop rhythm in the Dies Irae!

Introit & Kyrie - Dies irae - The snow of yesterday (Gozan) - Rex tremendae - Confutatis - From deep in my heart (Issho) - Lacrimosa - Now as a spirit (Hokusai) - Pie Jesu - Having seen the moon - Lux aeterna - Farewell (Banzan) - Dona eis pacem - In paradisum

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Cette nouvelle oeuvre pour choeur est fidèle au style que les nombreux fans de Jenkins connaissent et apprécient. Il reprend les mouvements latins d'une messe de requiem en y ajoutant à sa manière inimitable des éléments d'autres cultures. Il s'agit dans ce cas de cinq haikus mortuaires. Ces poèmes japonais, ayant habituellement la nature pour thème, nous transmettent que le cycle naturel de l'eau, de la pluie à son évaporation peut être appréhendé comme un synonyme du cycle de la vie. L'alliance raffinée des textes latins et japonais se manifeste en particulier dans le Benedictus et l'Agnus Dei dans lesquels les voix d'hommes psalmodient en latin dans un style monacal tandis que les femmes chantent en contrepoint le texte japonais. L'instrumentation comprend un shakuhachi, instrument traditionnel japonais. Jenkins utilise à son habitude quelques tambours inhabituels (comme par ex. la darbouka arabe, le taiko japonais, le tambour à cadre) et même un rythme hip-hop dans le Dies Irae !

Introit & Kyrie - Dies irae - The snow of yesterday (Gozan) - Rex tremendae - Confutatis - From deep in my heart (Issho) - Lacrimosa - Now as a spirit (Hokusai) - Pie Jesu - Having seen the moon - Lux aeterna - Farewell (Banzan) - Dona eis pacem - In paradisum

for mixed chorus and piano
vocal score