FULL The Armed Man – A Mass for Peace (Jenkins) Linköping 2018 Annica Nilsson, Zekerijah Cajlakovic

Information on the Performance

• Work Title: The Armed Man – A Mass for Peace  
• Composer: Jenkins Karl   
• Libretto: based on the Catholic Mass, which Jenkins combines with other sources  
• Venue & Opera Company: Flygvapenmuseum, Linköping, Sweden  
• Recorded: October 20, 2018
• Type: Concert Live
• Singers: Annica Nilsson, Zekerijah Cajlakovic
• Conductor: Merete Ellegaard.  
• Orchestra: Linköpings Akademiska Orkester  
• Chorus: Linköpings Studentsångare, Den Akademiska damkören Linnea  
• Chorus Master: Anna-Karin Strand  
• Stage Director:   
• Costume Designer:   

Information about the Recording

• Published by: Martin Steisner  
• Date Published: 2025  
• Format: Streaming
• Quality Video: 3 Audio:3
• Subtitles: nosubs  
• Video Recording from: YouTube     FULL VIDEO
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ADDITIONAL INFORMATION ON THIS PERFORMANCE

The Armed Man is a Mass by Welsh composer Karl Jenkins, subtitled “A Mass for Peace”. The piece was commissioned by the Royal Armouries 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, as well as during the Kyrie. It was written for SATB chorus with soloists (soprano and muezzin) and a symphonic orchestra. Guy Wilson, then master of the museum, selected the texts for the mass.

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