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Music : Jenkins: The Armed Man - A Mass For Peace
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Rating: 
- Strong, moving music
This is an excellent piece of work from Karl Jenkins. His brief was to create music that reflected on war and the futility, pain and pervasion of conflict, and I think he does well. However, some aspects are a little irksome. Whilst the piece starts superbly (in French), why do we then jump to the Arabic Muslim call to prayer? Then into English for the next few movements? I appreciate that Jenkins is reflecting upon the many aspects not only of war but of its roots, and individually each piece is very good, but they just dont go together as well as I would hope.but somehow I feel it lacks cohesion.
In terms of highlights the Prayer Before Action, Benedictus and Agnus Dei are all excellent, truly moving works that come with such powerful imagery so as to draw even the most detatched listener into the piece. This is thought provoking, something all to often absent in 'modern' classical music.
Overall this is a recording I've listened to many times now and expect I will continue to do so. Sometimes not really getting into it, sometimes paying more attention, but always I'm struck by the quality of the young voices - even if the producer insists on adding echo and other such 'pop' touches. These can remind one of a movie score, but not too often. On the whole though a moving work, and one of few major faults... at least to the amateur ear, and one that doesn't insist on comparing everything to the great composers and turning one's nose up to classic FM.
Rating:
- One of the most amazing pieces of music you'll buy - A MUST
I first bought this album a few days after the September disaster and it's been hanging around in various charts since then so I thought I'd better write a review about a piece of music that I still listen too several times a week.
There are so many aspects to the piece from the militaristic intro of a marching army, to the Muslim call to Prayer, a cavalry charge and The Last Post all interspersed with the familiar aspects of the Mass.
The highlight of the whole piece has to be the Agnus Dei, sublime has nothing on it.
I've yet to play this piece of music to any of my friends not all of whom have an interest in either classical or choral music and not one of them has yet to be moved.
A MUST BUY
Rating: - An absolute must!
This is an album that every man woman and child in the world should be forced to hear, prefarably at gun point!!!! Heard it performed live here in Dublin and had to buy the CD. Awesome!!
Rating: - tremendously powerfull
I was a little unsure what to expect of the album The Armed Man by Karl Jenkins,and having heard many of his albums was certain it would not be a disappointment.
It is an incredibly moving album from its first to its last note.It is amazing to hear such a diverse arrangement of pieces put together to illustrate such a savage act of man.
Each piece describes the act of war so vividly it is hard not to be moved and amazed,it is definately not an album to lift your spirits,More to move your soul.
Rating: - A remarkable work, but not for the technical
This, for me, is a wonderful work, full of emotion and passion, but not sentimentality. Good music to sit back and just think about some of what it means to be human, both good and bad.
However, if you like your listening technical, with lots of really intricate musical patterns and stuff like that (in other words, you've seriously studied classical composition and only enjoy examining the notes, harmonies and counterpoints themselves) then this isn't for you. You should stick to Mozart and Bach.
For those that are more enlightened about their enjoyment of music, this is spot on.
- Strong, moving musicThis is an excellent piece of work from Karl Jenkins. His brief was to create music that reflected on war and the futility, pain and pervasion of conflict, and I think he does well. However, some aspects are a little irksome. Whilst the piece starts superbly (in French), why do we then jump to the Arabic Muslim call to prayer? Then into English for the next few movements? I appreciate that Jenkins is reflecting upon the many aspects not only of war but of its roots, and individually each piece is very good, but they just dont go together as well as I would hope.but somehow I feel it lacks cohesion.
In terms of highlights the Prayer Before Action, Benedictus and Agnus Dei are all excellent, truly moving works that come with such powerful imagery so as to draw even the most detatched listener into the piece. This is thought provoking, something all to often absent in 'modern' classical music.
Overall this is a recording I've listened to many times now and expect I will continue to do so. Sometimes not really getting into it, sometimes paying more attention, but always I'm struck by the quality of the young voices - even if the producer insists on adding echo and other such 'pop' touches. These can remind one of a movie score, but not too often. On the whole though a moving work, and one of few major faults... at least to the amateur ear, and one that doesn't insist on comparing everything to the great composers and turning one's nose up to classic FM.
Rating:
- One of the most amazing pieces of music you'll buy - A MUSTI first bought this album a few days after the September disaster and it's been hanging around in various charts since then so I thought I'd better write a review about a piece of music that I still listen too several times a week.
There are so many aspects to the piece from the militaristic intro of a marching army, to the Muslim call to Prayer, a cavalry charge and The Last Post all interspersed with the familiar aspects of the Mass.
The highlight of the whole piece has to be the Agnus Dei, sublime has nothing on it.
I've yet to play this piece of music to any of my friends not all of whom have an interest in either classical or choral music and not one of them has yet to be moved.
A MUST BUY
Rating:
- An absolute must!This is an album that every man woman and child in the world should be forced to hear, prefarably at gun point!!!! Heard it performed live here in Dublin and had to buy the CD. Awesome!!
Rating:
- tremendously powerfullI was a little unsure what to expect of the album The Armed Man by Karl Jenkins,and having heard many of his albums was certain it would not be a disappointment.
It is an incredibly moving album from its first to its last note.It is amazing to hear such a diverse arrangement of pieces put together to illustrate such a savage act of man.
Each piece describes the act of war so vividly it is hard not to be moved and amazed,it is definately not an album to lift your spirits,More to move your soul.
Rating:
- A remarkable work, but not for the technicalThis, for me, is a wonderful work, full of emotion and passion, but not sentimentality. Good music to sit back and just think about some of what it means to be human, both good and bad.
However, if you like your listening technical, with lots of really intricate musical patterns and stuff like that (in other words, you've seriously studied classical composition and only enjoy examining the notes, harmonies and counterpoints themselves) then this isn't for you. You should stick to Mozart and Bach.
For those that are more enlightened about their enjoyment of music, this is spot on.