Mozart, Karl Jenkins and Cunningham

Work:: Mozart, Karl Jenkins and Cunningham (S604934274)

This concert opens with Scottish composer Tom Cunningham's magical setting to music of six poems by the acclaimed author Alexander McCall Smith. Premiered in 2007 and entitled Scotland at Night, this work is an evocation of the Scotland that begins at dusk. Next on the bill is Mozart's ever popular Eine Kleine Nachtmusik, which provides an instrumental interlude, before the chorus and orchestra join together for Karl Jenkins's Requiem, written in 2005. As in his The Armed Man (which was so well received in the Choral Society's performance here a few years ago), Jenkins's hallmark of mixing cultures finds him blending the traditional Latin text of the Requiem with Japanese haiku 'death' poems - and even using a hip-hop rhythm in the Dies Irae!

Listing:: L1444805669

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