Catrin Finch

Echo celebrates the tenth anniversary of an extraordinary partnership between two virtuosos whose previous releases include 2018's album Soar and their 2013 debut Clychau Dibon. Echo marks the third part of this remarkable trilogy. The harp and kora share centuries of history, and Catrin and Seckou create a unique dialogue in a musical alliance of rare empathy, inspired by differences and similarities. Their atmospheric magic crosses genre boundaries, from folk and world music to classical and contemporary as their fingers flow like opposing tributaries into a single river of sound. Echo is the tender triumph of an extraordinary musical partnership that combines harp and kora, the modern and traditional, different cultures and common humanity.

Sir Karl Jenkins is one of the most performed living composers in the world. The release of Karl’s new album Miserere: Songs Of Mercy And Redemption, on 11 October, will be followed by his 75th birthday concert at the Royal Albert Hall on 13 October. His new choral masterpiece Miserere is dedicated to all who have suffered or perished during the conflicts in the Middle East over the last 70 years. Karl was motivated by the desperate situation for the millions of people displaced and impacted by the cruel effects of war and hoped the healing and uniting powers of music could be used to bring together people from different religions.

The latest Karl Jenkins release on EMI Classics features world premiere recordings of four recent concertos. Over The Stone, a double harp concerto; La Folia for marimba; Quirk, a concertante for flutes, keyboards, percussion and Sarikiz, a violin concerto. The album is rounded off with the re-recording of the first movement of Palladio, a concerto grosso that Jenkins composed in 1996.