Jackson, Gabriel
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Special offer. Gabriel Jackson: The Passion of Our Lord Jesus Christ
All tracks are premiere recordings
Guy Cutting (tenor), Emma Tring (soprano), Francesca Millar (soprano), Isabelle Blain (alto), Samuel Costello (tenor), Freddie Crowley (bass), Nicholas Trapp (bass)
Choir of Merton College, Oxford, Benjamin Nicholas
This outstanding recording of Gabriel Jackson’s retelling of the Passion story bursts with energy... Jackson’s engaging score is richly colourful and his instrumental writing proves a particular... —
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Gramophone Magazine, April 2019, Editor's Choice
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BBC Music Magazine, June 2019, Choral & Song Choice
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BBC Music Magazine Awards, 2020, Winner - Choral
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Warm, confident interpretations from the Royal Holloway singers. —
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Veni Creator Spiritus - Second Vespers of the Solemnity of Pentecost
Peter Stevens (organ), Westminster Cathedral Choir, The Choir of Buckfast Abbey, Simon Johnson
The recording has the atmosphere of an important ecclesiastical event...Westminster Cathedral Choir sounds in its element throughout, with Ad Fontes's recording team capturing the spacious,... —
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Throughout, the choir is on top form, with an exceptionally clear and forward tone. Former organ scholar Glen Dempsey matches the level of his colleagues’ achievements, proving himself to be... —
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Gramophone Magazine, Awards Issue 2019, Editor's Choice
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Gabriel Jackson: The Christmas Story
Oxford Contemporary Sinfonia, The Girl Choristers of Merton College, Oxford, François Cloete, Owen Chan, Choir of Merton College Oxford, Benjamin Nicholas
There’s often a strangeness to The Christmas Story – of instrumentation, style, text – that helps refocus the ear on a story blurred by over-familiarity. —
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Gramophone Magazine, December 2024, Editor's Choice
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In Sorrow's Footsteps
Music by Gabriel Jackson, Palestrina, Allegri and James MacMillan
The Marian Consort, Rory McCleery
The sharp, jabbing gestures at the opening of Gabriel Jackson’s new setting of the Stabat Mater…announce that wilting introspection is by no means the composer’s default position in his response... —
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Presto Editor's Choice, July 2018
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From the gorgeously shaped performance of Morten Lauridsen’s modern classic O magnum mysterium which opens the programme, to the urgent, ardent account of James MacMillan’s O radiant dawn which... —
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BBC Music Magazine, Disc of the month
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Gabriel Jackson: A ship with unfurled sails
& other works
with Kaspars Zemitis (electric guitar)
The State Choir Latvija, Maris Sirmais
It's easy enough injecting an element of fervour into choral singing, harder to do so without sacrificing technical accuracy...the State Choir Latvija manages both a bristling ardour in its... —
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BBC Music Magazine, February 2013, Choral & Song Choice
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Special offer. Gabriel Jackson: Choral Works
Canterbury Cathedral Choir, David Newsholme (conductor)
Jackson's choral music is warmly appealing; it zings with rhythmic invention and vibrant modern harmonies but is also clearly rooted in the choral traditions he grew up with...This is a richly... —
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Gramophone Magazine, August 2025, Editor's Choice
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Gramophone Magazine, January 2010, Editor's Choice
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