Added: Oct 11, 2008
From: OrchestradiMandolini
Duration: 4:19
Born in 1944 Karl Jenkins studied music at the University of Wales, Cardiff and at the famous conservatory the Royal Academy of Music in London. Initially a Jazz and Pop musician (with appearances for instance at the Ronnie Scott club in London and the Newport Jazz Festival in Rhode Island) Jenkins is seen today more and more as a classical composer. A career that developed via exceptional Pop music to his spectacular musical language of today. Jenkins and his musical band members have always been highly successful as awards such as the first prize with Nucleus, a band he founded in 1969 with Ian Carr, show. This group, with Chris Spedding on guitar, recording several albums and won first prize at the Montreux Jazz Festival. Later Jenkins toured the USA and Europe with jet another well known group called Soft Machine. In this period Karl Jenkins revealed himself as a successful composer composing many compositions for advertising purposes such as the advertise campaigns of i.e. British Airways, Renault, Volvos and Pepsi. For this he was honoured with prestigious awards like the Clios (New York) and the Golden Lions (Cannes). One of his best known works in this genre he composed for the DeBeers commercial made circa 1993. It is known best today as the first movement, the Allegro, of the Concerto Grosso Palladio that Jenkins originally wrote for String Orchestra. The titel 'Palladio' goes back to the great Italian Renaissance architect Andrea Palladio (1508 1580) who, as is thought today, helped with his beautiful buildings to shape the world that surrounds us. Today many arrangements for various music ensembles of Jenkins' beautiful 'Palladio' exist. One of these for instance was made for harp solo with orchestra accompaniment. It was performed in the St. David's Hall in Cardiff in honour of Karl Jenkins' 60th birthday, an occasion at which 'Palladio' was performed by Catrin Finch on harp and conducted by Karl Jenkins himself (see a video of that performance here on youtube: http://nl.youtube.com/watch?v=E5jtKuQeq0w&feature=related In this video shown here, 'Palladio' is performed by the Dutch Mandolin Chamber Orchestra HET CONSORT conducted by Alex Timmerman. More information about the concerts, CDs and activities of the Mandolin Orchestra HET CONSORT can be found on their website: http://www.mandolineorkest.nl/enwelkom.htm
Channel: Music
Tags: alex consort embergher het jenkins karl mandolin mandoline mandolino orchestra palladio timmerman
Rating: 4.50 (8 ratings) Views: 1288' favoriteCount='10 Comments: 4
OrchestradiMandolini Says:
Oct 15, 2008 - Thank you, Mandolsland! It is indeed a wonderful composition (the link in the info text to Mr. Jenkins conducting his Palladio does work now (thanks for pointing out). Best, Alex Timmerman.
gusjan2 Says:
Oct 17, 2008 - I was there in the audience. Just wonderful!
Imperatormudi Says:
Oct 29, 2008 - Wondefull interpretation
MandoIsland Says:
Oct 14, 2008 - This is really a fantastic piece of music and a perfect arrangement for mandolin orchestra - just watched the version with Jenkins as conductor and electric harp (please check the link in your text - it did not work properly)