Katherine Jenkins – Home Sweet Home (2014)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 55:06 minutes | 581 MB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Decca (UMO)
Katherine Jenkins, the nation’s sweetheart, returns to her classical roots celebrating the music that launched her international career.
Recorded with full orchestra and chorus in the famous Abbey Road Studios, Katherine has recorded new versions of some of the country’s favourite music including Nimrod, How Great Thou Art and World In Union. The album also includes a duet with Alfie Boe on the Freddie Mercury track, Barcelona, an arrangement of Ludovico Einaudi’s hit track, I Giorni, along with a special version of the Welsh National Anthem, Land of My Fathers.
Ten years ago, a star was born as Katherine was introduced to the world as the school teacher from Neath with a voice the nation fell in love with. Several million album sales later she has created the best album of her stellar career.
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Katherine Jenkins – Guiding Light (2018)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 55:30 minutes | 1,03 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Decca (UMO) (Classics)
Songs of Inspiration, Hope and Strength A collection of songs in which to find meaning and inspiration. Includes the single Jealous of the Angels, Josh Groban’s To Where you Are, hymns Make Me A Channel of your Peace and Morning Has Broken (with Bryn Terfel). Also includes a moving cover of Stormzy’s Blinded By Your Grace which features Katherine’s Daughter Aaliyah and The Greatest Showman’s Never Enough.
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Katherine Jenkins – Cinema Paradiso (2020)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 59:27 minutes | 625 MB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Decca (UMO) (Classics)
Cinema Paradiso is the 14th studio album from Katherine Jenkins and sees her paying tribute to the silver screen. Jenkins takes on such classics as “Moon River” from Breakfast at Tiffany’s, “When You Wish Upon a Star” from Pinocchio, and “Never Love Again” from A Star Is Born, amongst others.
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Katherine Jenkins – Christmas Spectacular – Live From The Royal Albert Hall (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) (2020)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 01:03:52 minutes | 723 MB | Genre: Soundtrack
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Decca (UMO) (Classics)
Classical music superstar Katherine Jenkins OBE presents a magical and unique Christmas musical from the iconic Royal Albert Hall, bringing joy and festive celebrations to audiences around the world in the holiday season. With unprecedented and exclusive access to the historic venue, the Welsh singing sensation performs seasonal favourites and carols with full nostalgic Hollywood musical glamour. Katherine is joined by friends including beloved actors Vanessa Redgrave and Bill Nighy, Operatic icon Sir Bryn Terfyl, Italian Tenor Alberto Urso, American Broadway star Marisha Wallace, English National Ballet Lead Principal Erina Takahashi, the Royal Air Force Regiment Band and many more, to share an unforgettable and enchanting Christmas experience.
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Karl Jenkins – Symphonic Adiemus (2017)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 58:58 minutes | 667 MB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Decca (UMO) (Classics)
Sir Karl Jenkins presents Symphonic Adiemus, the new album, of epic proportions. Brand new recordings of the greatest moments from the Adiemus series features an extended orchestra of over 100, including over 20 layers of classical and ethnic percussion, and a choir of 80. With judicious use of multi-tracking, there are sometimes over 400 participants heard at any one time.
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Karl Jenkins – Miserere: Songs of Mercy and Redemption (2019)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 50:53 minutes | 539 MB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Decca (UMO) (Classics)
Since the release of his Adiemus Project albums and his mass The Armed Man in the 1990s, Karl Jenkins has been one of Britain’s most popular composers. He is disliked by major newspaper critics, but that is of little consequence to the millions who buy his albums and, perhaps more important, to the many choirs that sing his music for the joy of it. Many of Jenkins’ releases fall ingeniously in between the pop and classical forms of album presentation: Miserere might be regarded either as a collection of individual pieces or as a single work. It addresses, in a general way, the theme of ongoing violence in the Middle East, and several pieces use instruments and musical techniques from that region. Sample “Praise, Joy & Gladness,” which uses some of these sounds in an entirely novel fusion with American praise and worship music. Whatever you may think of Jenkins, he can hardly be charged with being derivative. Mostly sung by the choir Polyphony under Stephen Layton, with a variety of vocal and instrumental soloists including cellist Abel Selaocoe, these pieces are in Latin, English, and in a few places biblical Aramaic and Hebrew; are in Western and Middle Eastern styles; are quite personal or fall into the centuries-long tradition of settings of the Miserere text (here, Jenkins approaches the concept of The Armed Man). There are some who will never accept the heart-on-the-sleeve aspect of some of Jenkins’ music, but that’s not all there is to him, and this release shows him to be still going strong in his mid-70s. Recommended.
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Karl Jenkins – Karl Jenkins: Piano (2019)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 59:43 minutes | 573 MB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Decca (UMO) (Classics)
The very best of Sir Karl Jenkins’ music performed by himself on the piano for the very first time! One of the most performed living composers in the world, Sir Karl Jenkins’ prolific career spans the music worlds of classic, jazz, advertising and film.
He was confirmed as the most popular living composer in Classic FM’s ‘Ultimate Hall of Fame’.
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Evelyn Glennie, City Chamber Orchestra of Hong Kong & Jean Thorel – Alrich, Jenkins & Rorem: Mallet Concertos (2021)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:10:58 minutes | 1,17 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Naxos
This compilation of concertos for mallet instruments features percussion virtuoso Dame Evelyn Glennie and City Chamber Orchestra of Hong Kong. Alexis Alrich’s Marimba Concerto, a rich amalgam of bold rhythms and exuberance, also explores Mexican and Asian-inspired music. Sir Karl Jenkins traces the 15th-century tune La Folia, furnishing it with refinement and strongly characterised intensity. Ned Rorem’s Mallet Concerto highlights the contrasting resonances of four different pitched mallets in music of drama and dynamism.
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Fretwork – John Jenkins: Complete Four-Part Consort Music (2018)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:22:58 minutes | 1,58 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Signum Records
For a good third of a century, the Fretwork ensemble has been constantly sifting through the immensely rich repertoire for consort of violas, generally from the British sphere, from Taverner to Purcell — so, the 16th and 17th centuries — while never hesitating to commission entirely new works from modern-day composers. The combination of the viola’s “ancient” sound with modern writing brings forth the most unlikely sonic spheres… This album keeps both feet firmly in England’s 17th century with John Jenkins (1592-1678), famous in his own day, and consistently one of the most essential composers for any self-respecting viola player from the very start of his career — both in England and abroad, which is unusual in itself — thanks to his output of literally hundreds of pieces for various viola ensembles. A number of them were written for “family”-style consorts, in large part due to the ban on all forms of public music implemented by Cromwell’s religious dictatorship. Once the monarchy was restored, the fashion for groups of amateurs playing concert violas would endure long enough to bring fame and fortune to composers such as Jenkins. Here we will discover a language which is at once conservative in terms of form, and very daring, explosive even, in terms of content, rather like the work of a 17th century Haydn.
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Ella Fitzgerald – Ella Fitzgerald & Mr Gordon Jenkins Invite You To Listen And Relax (1955/2021)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 35:08 minutes | 546 MB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © RevOla
Miss Ella Fitzgerald & Mr Gordon Jenkins Invite You to Listen and Relax is a collection of material recorded by Ella Fitzgerald between 1949 and 1954, all tracks were arranged by Gordon Jenkins. All tracks were previously only available on 78rpm singles. The album was compiled and released by Decca in 1955.
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Tom Jenkins – It Comes in the Morning, It Hangs in the Evening Sky (2022)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 42:25 minutes | 513 MB | Genre: Folk Rock, Alt. Country
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Xtra Mile Recordings Ltd
Blending country-tinged melodies with jangling indie-rock guitars, “Be There For You” sees Tom Jenkins reflect on the real life isolation he experienced while pursuing sheep-shearing and shepherding on a ranch in New Zealand. The album comprises 12-track, featuring guest appearances from Phil Campbell, Marc Ford and Paul Mullen. Produced by Todd Campbell. Tom Jenkins began writing, producing and recording his second solo album during lockdown and after sitting on the record for over a year.
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Cassandra Jenkins – An Overview on Phenomenal Nature (2021)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 31:44 minutes | 300 MB | Genre: Indie Folk, Female Vocal
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Ba Da Bing!
“Nothing ever really disappears,” Cassandra Jenkins says. “It just changes shape.” Over the past few years, she’s seen relationships altered, travelled three continents, wandered through museums and parks, and recorded free-associative guided tours of her New York haunts. Her observations capture the humanity and nature around her, as well as thought patterns, memories, and attempts to be present while dealing with pain and loss. With a singular voice, Jenkins siphons these ideas into the ambient folk of her new album.
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Cassandra Jenkins – (An Overview on) An Overview on Phenomenal Nature (2021)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 25:13 minutes | 266 MB | Genre: Indie Folk, Female Vocal
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Ba Da Bing!
Cassandra Jenkins’ An Overview on Phenomenal Nature emerged from the blue earlier this year. With pandemic unknowns and political upheaval leaving most at frayed ends, the New York-born musician’s assuring voice and expansive fresh take on songwriting created a much needed reflective space for listeners worldwide. As 2021 comes to a close, Jenkins revisits those flowing textures and refrains with (An Overview On) An Overview On Phenomenal Nature, a collection of previously unreleased sonic sketches, initial run-throughs, demos, and sound recordings from the cutting room floor that provided the scaffolding for what became one of this year’s most critically acclaimed albums.
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Phantasm – Jenkins: Four-Part Consorts (2022)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:16:13 minutes | 1,46 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Digital Booklet, Front Cover | © Linn Records
In his Four-Part Consorts, John Jenkins (1592–1678) parades his much-vaunted contrapuntal prowess that is marked by a fanatical devotion to the equality of four independent parts. Frequently turbulent and given to frenetic activity, this music charts the interactions of a band of like-minded spirits obsessed with lively struggle and restless soul-searching. The incessant peregrinations of Jenkins’s roving harmonies are heady stuff and make moments of calm and valediction all the more deserved and poignant.
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Karl Jenkins – Cantata Memoria – For The Children (2016)
FLAC (tracks) 24-bit/96 kHz | Time – 00:55:48 minutes | 0,98 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Master, Official Digital Download – Source: prestoclassical.co.uk | © Deutsche Grammophon
Cantata Memoria commemorates through new music the Aberfan tragedy of October 21, 1966, when 116 children and 28 adults tragically lost their lives as a coal tip enveloped Plant Glas school, together with some houses, in Aberfan, South Wales.
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