{"id":28276,"date":"2023-05-19T15:05:29","date_gmt":"2023-05-19T13:05:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.classical-music.com\/?p=184882"},"modified":"2023-05-23T08:40:45","modified_gmt":"2023-05-23T06:40:45","slug":"coronation-composer-sir-karl-jenkins-breaks-uk-chart-record","status":"publish","type":"rss_feed","link":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/bbcmusicmagazine\/rss_feed\/coronation-composer-sir-karl-jenkins-breaks-uk-chart-record\/","title":{"rendered":"Coronation composer Sir Karl Jenkins breaks UK chart record"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Welsh composer, a Coronation guest who was jokingly confused for Meghan Markle in disguise, has managed over 1,000 weeks in the classical charts with his oratorio ‘The Armed Man’ <\/p>

By Steve Wright\n \t\t<\/p>

Published: Friday, 19 May 2023 at 12:00 am<\/p>

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Recently (and memorably) on our TV screens during the Coronation<\/strong><\/a>, the composer Sir Karl Jenkins is back in the news, having broken a unique chart record.<\/p>\n

Jenkins broke UK chart records by reaching over 1,000 weeks in the UK Official Classical Artist Albums Chart with his work The Armed Man: A Mass for Peace<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n<p><em>The Armed Man<\/em> was composed by Jenkins in 1999, commissioned by the Royal Armouries to mark the millennium. An oratorio, it is based on the 15th century French poem, <strong>\u2018<a href=\""https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/L%27homme_arm%C3%A9"\">L\u2019homme arm\u00e9<\/a>\u2019<\/strong>, and is a powerful and moving reflection on the horror of war and its consequences. It has now occupied the UK classical charts for more than 20 years.<\/p>\n<p>Jenkins captured the attention of the public with his appearance at the Coronation of Their Majesties King Charles III and Queen Camilla at Westminster Abbey. Indeed, his appearance at the event led to some speculation that <a href=\""https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2023\/05\/11\/style\/karl-jenkins-meghan-markle-coronation.html"\"><strong>Karl Jenkins was Meghan Markle in disguise<\/strong><\/a> (Prince Harry\u2019s wife having not attended the Coronation) and his image went viral.<\/p>\n<p>The Welsh composer was amused by the extraordinary media response to his distinctive look, when it was jokingly suggested that he might have been a heavily disguised Meghan, Duchess of Sussex.<\/p>\n<p>He was at the Coronation because his work \u2018<strong><a href=\""https:\/\/www.classical-music.com\/features\/articles\/tros-y-garreg-lyrics\/"\">Tros y Garreg<\/a>\u2018 <\/strong>(\u2018Over the Stone\u2019, an arrangement of a Welsh folk song drawn from his eponymous harp concerto) was performed as part of the music programme before the Coronation service, withRoyal Harpist<strong> <a href=\""https:\/\/www.classical-music.com\/features\/artists\/who-is-alis-huws\/"\">Alis Huws<\/a><\/strong> as soloist.<\/p>\n<iframe title=\""Jenkins:\" over=\"\" the=\"\" stone=\"\" iv.=\"\" crossing=\"\" width=\""200"\" height=\""150"\" src=\""https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/x8Okf87Pf0c?feature=oembed"\" frameborder=\""0"\" allow=\""accelerometer;\" autoplay=\"\" clipboard-write=\"\" encrypted-media=\"\" gyroscope=\"\" picture-in-picture=\"\" web-share=\"\" allowfullscreen=\"\"\/>\n<ul><li><strong><a class=\""standard-card-new__article-title"\" href=\""https:\/\/www.classical-music.com\/features\/articles\/who-is-performing-at-the-coronation\/"\">Who performed at the Coronation?<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong><a class=\""standard-card-new__article-title"\" href=\""https:\/\/www.classical-music.com\/features\/articles\/who-composed-music-for-king-charless-coronation\/"\">Who composed music for King Charles\u2019s Coronation?<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The work was commissioned by His Majesty when Prince of Wales, and was included in the <a href=\""https:\/\/www.classical-music.com\/features\/articles\/king-charles-iii-coronation-order-of-service\/"\"><strong>Coronation order of service<\/strong><\/a> as a recognition of The King\u2019s long-standing relationship and affiliation with Wales. Indeed, the big day also saw the first-ever Welsh-language performance at a Coronation, with Welsh bass-baritone <a href=\""https:\/\/www.classical-music.com\/features\/artists\/who-is-bryn-terfel\/"\"><strong>Bryn Terfel<\/strong><\/a> performing <a href=\""https:\/\/www.classical-music.com\/composers\/who-is-paul-mealor\/"\"><strong>Paul Mealor<\/strong><\/a>\u2018s \u2018Coronation Kyrie\u2019 in his mother tongue.<\/p>\n<ul><li><a class=\""standard-card-new__article-title"\" href=\""https:\/\/www.classical-music.com\/composers\/five-bestwelsh-composers\/"\"><strong>Five of the best\u2026Welsh composers<\/strong><\/a><\/li>\n<li><strong><a class=\""standard-card-new__article-title"\" href=\""https:\/\/www.classical-music.com\/features\/works\/welsh-songs\/"\">Seven traditional Welsh folk songs you can\u2019t help singing along to<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>\u2018Tros y Garreg\u2019 is now available to listen to on <a href=\""https:\/\/www.classical-music.com\/news\/coronation-album-will-be-recorded-live-and-released-the-same-day\/"\"><strong><em>The Official Coronation Album<\/em><\/strong><\/a>, which was recorded live and released on the same day as the Coronation, and is out now on Decca Records.<\/p>\n<ul><li><a class=\""standard-card-new__article-title"\" href=\""https:\/\/www.classical-music.com\/features\/articles\/the-coronation-in-numbers-how-many-musicians-composers-microphones\/"\"><strong>The Coronation in numbers: how many musicians, composers, microphones and more<\/strong><\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><em>Karl Jenkins pic by Carsten Windhorst<\/em><\/p> <\/body><\/html>\n<hr class=\"no-tts wp-block-separator\"\/>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> The Welsh composer, a Coronation guest who was jokingly confused for Meghan Markle in disguise, has managed over 1,000 weeks in the classical charts with his oratorio ‘The Armed Man’ <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":28277,"template":"","categories":[1],"acf":{"readingTimeMinutes":"2"},"uagb_featured_image_src":{"full":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/37\/2023\/05\/coronation-composer-sir-karl-jenkins-breaks-uk-chart-record.png",1825,1499,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/37\/2023\/05\/coronation-composer-sir-karl-jenkins-breaks-uk-chart-record-150x150.png",150,150,true],"medium":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/37\/2023\/05\/coronation-composer-sir-karl-jenkins-breaks-uk-chart-record-300x246.png",300,246,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/37\/2023\/05\/coronation-composer-sir-karl-jenkins-breaks-uk-chart-record-768x631.png",768,631,true],"large":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/37\/2023\/05\/coronation-composer-sir-karl-jenkins-breaks-uk-chart-record-1024x841.png",800,657,true],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/37\/2023\/05\/coronation-composer-sir-karl-jenkins-breaks-uk-chart-record-1536x1262.png",1536,1262,true],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/37\/2023\/05\/coronation-composer-sir-karl-jenkins-breaks-uk-chart-record.png",1825,1499,false]},"uagb_author_info":{"display_name":"importmanagerhub@sprylab.com","author_link":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/bbcmusicmagazine\/author\/importmanagerhubsprylab-com\/"},"uagb_comment_info":0,"uagb_excerpt":"The Welsh composer, a Coronation guest who was jokingly confused for Meghan Markle in disguise, has managed over 1,000 weeks in the classical charts with his oratorio 'The Armed Man'","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/bbcmusicmagazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rss_feed\/28276"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/bbcmusicmagazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rss_feed"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/bbcmusicmagazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/rss_feed"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/bbcmusicmagazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/24"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/bbcmusicmagazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/28277"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/bbcmusicmagazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28276"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/bbcmusicmagazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28276"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}