Karl Jenkins: Palladio (Concerto Grosso for Strings)

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Karl Jenkins: Palladio (Concerto Grosso for Strings)
Karl Jenkins - Palladio
Palladio (Jenkins)

Festival "Rays of Music" - "Game of Hide and Seek"
Music by no Mozart, no Borodin, no Caccini, no Brahms
and other musical hoaxes

Festival Artistic Director Valentina Andreeva
Great Hall of the Children's Music School No. 9
St. Petersburg

Palladio is a composition for string orchestra by Karl Jenkins, written in 1995, with the title referring to the Italian Renaissance architect Andrea Palladio (1508–1580). The work in three movements is in the form of a concerto grosso.
Composed between 1993 and 1995, the piece is a suite of three movements in the form of a concerto grosso for string orchestra, named Palladio, in reverence of the Renaissance architect.

Palladio was published in 1996 by Boosey & Hawkes. It takes about 16 minutes to perform.The composer comments:
Palladio was inspired by the sixteenth-century Italian architect Andrea Palladio, whose work embodies the Renaissance celebration of harmony and order. Two of Palladio's hallmarks are mathematical harmony and architectural elements borrowed from classical antiquity, a philosophy which I feel reflects my own approach to composition. The first movement I adapted and used for the 'Shadows: A Diamond is Forever' television commercial for a worldwide campaign. The middle movement I have since rearranged for two female voices and string orchestra, as heard in 'Cantus Insolitus' from my work Songs of Sanctuary.