Karl Jenkins: 10th anniversary for The Armed Man

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Karl Jenkins: 10th anniversary for The Armed Man

(October 2010)

The 10th anniversary of Karl Jenkins's The Armed Man brings a special edition EMI box set, and international performances including concerts in London and Cardiff.

This autumn brings the 10th anniversary of the premiere of Karl Jenkins’s The Armed Man: A Mass for Peace, the most successful new choral work of recent years with 900 performances in more than 30 countries, and 75,000 vocal scores sold to date.

The best-selling EMI recording is re-released in a 10th anniversary edition containing the concert work on CD, a performance with film on DVD, and a bonus track of Hayley Westenra singing a new work, For the Fallen (also available as a digital download).

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> Watch a documentary interview with Karl Jenkins

As well as performances of The Armed Man this year by choirs around the world – from Iceland to India - Karl Jenkins will conduct a special 10th anniversary performance at the Royal Festival Hall in London on 31 October. The National Youth Choir of Great Britain joins the Philharmonia Orchestra and the concert also includes the world premiere of Shakarim for voice, violin and orchestra, and the first London performance of the violin concerto Sarikiz with Marat Bisengaliev as soloist.

In addition to the two orchestral scorings of The Armed Man, there are also versions with brass band and concert band now available on hire. St David’s Hall in Cardiff plays host to a 10th anniversary performance on 14 November in the version for chorus, organ and brass band, while the new version arranged for concert band accompaniment receives its first airing in York Minster on 29 October.

To celebrate the 10th anniversary Boosey & Hawkes has published full scores of The Armed Man on sale for the first time. The limited edition deluxe hardback and the coil-bound paperback editions are both in
A3 format and are suitable for performance use.

For the Fallen, the bonus track on the EMI special release, is a new setting by Jenkins of Laurence Binyon’s famous First World War memorial text, extending The Armed Man’s theme of the human loss of war. Scored for narrator, SATB chorus and orchestra, the five-minute work incorporates The Last Post, making it ideal for Remembrance services and commemorations. The world premiere takes place within the Festival of Remembrance at the Royal Albert Hall in London on 13 November, and a further performance is included in the Cardiff event the following day in a brass band arrangement.

The vocal score of For the Fallen is released on sale at Remembrance-tide this year, joining Jenkins’s earlier memorial setting In Flanders Fields, recently published for sale.

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