One World - Vocal Score

One World deals with a fractured world (populist governments, plagues, climate change, human trafficking, disrespect for basic human rights, terrorism, war) and heralds a vision of a peaceful and egalitarian planet. The work is best encapsulated by one of the texts set: ‘Tikkun Olam’, Hebrew for ‘repair the world’, a Jewish concept of stewardship over God’s creation. Scored for soloists, chorus and orchestra in Jenkins’s inimitable style familiar from such works as Adiemus: Songs of Sanctuary, The Armed Man: A Mass for Peace, Requiem and The Peacemakers. His vision for One World takes inspiration from diverse texts including the Bible, the Hindu Gayatri Mantra, the poetry of the English Romantic Percy Bysshe Shelley, African-American abolitionist Frances Harper (c1850) and Lebanese-American writer Kahlil Gibran. As in many of Jenkins’s works, Carol Barratt contributes impactful text and adaptations. Recorded on Decca by Lucy Crowe soprano, Kathryn Rudge mezzo-soprano, Roderick Williams baritone, the World Choir for Peace, The Stay At Home Choir and the World Orchestra for Peace, conducted by Karl Jenkins.

Contents:


1. In the Beginning
2. Let’s Go! (The Tower of Babel)
3. Unus Mundus (One World)
4. Ad Lucem (Towards Light)
5. Ad Pacem (Towards Peace)
6. Yet, here I am (Song of Humankind)
7. Tikkun Olam (Repair the World)
8. Savitur (The Divine Sun, the ultimate light of wisdom)
9. Paradise Lost?
10. Truth
11. Hidden Faces
12. Bury Me in a Free Land
13. Sakura, Spring has come
14. The Golden Age Begins Anew