The Armed Man is a Mass by Welsh composer Karl Jenkins, subtitled « A Mass for Peace ».
The piece was commissioned by the Royal Armories Museum for the Millennium celebrations, to mark the museum’s move from London to Leeds, and it was dedicated to victims of the Kosovo crisis. Like Benjamin Britten’s War Requiem before it, it is essentially an anti-war piece and is based on the Catholic Mass, which Jenkins combines with other sources, principally the 15th-century folk song « L’homme armé » in the first and last movements. It was written for SATB chorus with soloists (soprano and muezzin) and a symphonic orchestra.
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Chor der Universität des Saarlandes
Chœur de l’Université du Luxembourg
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Suzanne Dowaliby, Mezzo
Daniel Reupke, Bariton
Monir Hamo, Muezzin
Kammerensemble « con nov`arco »
Direction / Leitung: Julia Pruy & Helmut Freitag