Quirk - The Concertos by Karl Jenkins
The latest Karl Jenkins release features world premiere recordings of four recent concertos. "Over The Stone", a double harp concerto; "La Folia" for marimba; "Quirk", a concertante for flutes, keyboards, percussion and "Sarikiz", a violin concerto. The album is rounded off with the re-recording of the first movement of "Palladio", a concerto grosso that Jenkins composed in 1996. The performers include London Symphony Orchestra principals Gareth Davies (piccolo, flute, alto flute and bass flute), John Alley (piano, harmonium, celeste, honky-tonk piano) and Neil Percy (xylophone, vibraphone, marimba, whistle, bamboo chimes, rainstick, temple blocks, various drums and cymbals), as well as harpist Catrin Finch and violinist Marat Bisengaliev with the London Symphony Orchestra conducted by Karl Jenkins.
