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Donald Macleod talks to multi-instrumentalist and composer Sir Karl Jenkins on the eve of his 80th birthday.

In these special programmes composer Karl Jenkins joins Donald Macleod to talk about his life and music. After a rich and creative musical upbring, and university in Cardiff, Karl Jenkins left his native South Wales in the mid-1960s in order to study music as a postgraduate at the Royal Academy in London. His immersion in classical music ran in parallel with a passion for jazz. After graduating he formed the band Nucleus, which won first prize at the Montreux Jazz Festival in 1970. He then toured the world the legendary jazz-rock band Soft Machine. We’ll end today’s programme by returning to South Wales, with his 50th anniversary memorial to those who lost their lives in the disaster at Aberfan in 1966.

Suo Gan
The Cory Band
Only Men Aloud

Quirky Blue
Karl Jenkins, piano

Hazard Profile, pt 1
Soft Machine
(Karl Jenkins, Allan Holdsworth, Mike Ratledge, Roy Babbington, John Marshall)

Carol Ann
Soft Machine
(Karl Jenkins, Mike Ratledge, Roy Babbington, John Marshall)

La Folia – concerto for marimba and strings
Neil Percy, marimba
London Symphony Orchestra
Karl Jenkins, conductor

Cantata Memoria
iii Cortege
v Lacrimosa Lullaby
Bryn Terfel, bass-baritone
David Childs, euphonium
Catrin Finch, harp
Jody Jenkins, percussion
Joo Yeon Sir, violin
Adult choirs: Cywair, CF1, Cor Caerdydd
Young choirs: Côr Heol y March & Côr y Cwm
Sinfonia Cymru
Karl Jenkins, conductor