In Praise of Civil Courage - Karl Jenkins–János Arany: The Bards of Wales A Zeneakadémia saját szervezésű programja

Welsh-born Karl Jenkins (70), who, together with his jazz-rock band Nucleus won the Montreux Jazz Festival in 1970, has always worked on the fringes of classical music, jazz and world music. His activity as a classical composer received new impetus in the 1990s, and today he is considered the most performed British composer. In 2011, at the request of concert impresario László Irinyi, he wrote a large-scale cantata to János Arany’s ballad The Bards of Wales. “I wanted to compose a work in which I could depict, using the tools of music, the desire for freedom of small nations that are rightly proud of their traditions, language and heritage,” Jenkins said in an interview. After its world premiere in the Palace of Arts, the production started out on a world tour, which garnered huge success in Carnegie Hall this January, and now it is the turn of the Liszt Academy, in a performance that brings together selected soloists and choruses as well as the MÁV Symphony Orchestra and Gergely Kesselyák on the conductor’s podium.