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4 unusual facts about Karl Jenkins


Huffin

"Huffin" is an instrumental song written by Karl Jenkins and performed by Soft Machine.

Pie Jesu

The settings of the Requiem Mass by Luigi Cherubini, Gabriel Fauré, Maurice Duruflé, John Rutter, Karl Jenkins and Fredrik Sixten include a Pie Jesu as an independent movement.

Saint David

David's life and teachings have inspired a choral work by Welsh composer Karl Jenkins, Dewi Sant.

The Bards of Wales

The Welsh composer Karl Jenkins wrote a cantata of the Peter Zollman translation of the poem in 2011.


Adiemus II: Cantata Mundi

Released in 1997, Adiemus II: Cantata Mundi is the second album by Welsh composer Karl Jenkins as part of the Adiemus project.

Adiemus III: Dances of Time

Released in 1998, Adiemus III: Dances of Time is the third album by Welsh composer Karl Jenkins as part of the Adiemus project.

Adiemus: Songs of Sanctuary

Released in 1995, Songs of Sanctuary is the first album by Welsh composer Karl Jenkins as part of the Adiemus project.

Cory Band

They have an active commissioning policy and have performed works by many of Britain’s leading composers; John McCabe, Judith Bingham, Elgar Howarth, Edward Gregson, Alun Hoddinott, Karl Jenkins, Gareth Wood, David Bedford, as well as John Pickard.

Graham Collier

On his return to Britain he founded the first version of an ensemble devoted to his own compositions, Graham Collier Music, which included Kenny Wheeler, Harry Beckett and John Surman, and in later line-ups Karl Jenkins, Mike Gibbs, Art Themen and many other notable musicians.

I Heard It Through the Grapevine

For the 1985 Levi's 501 commercial, "Launderette", featuring male model Nick Kamen, agency BBH and director Roger Lyons, owing to budgetary constraints, brought in Karl Jenkins and Mike Ratledge to recreate the sound of the Marvin Gaye original with Tony Jackson, a Barbadian background singer for Paul Young, handling vocals and P. P. Arnold on backing vocals.

Mike Ratledge

In 1995, Adiemus (Karl Jenkins, Mike Ratledge, Miriam Stockley), released Songs of Sanctuary, which Ratledge co-produced with Karl Jenkins and for which he also programmed the electronic percussion.


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