Choral, Anthems & Motets, Jackson, Gabriel (composer)
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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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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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Gramophone Magazine, January 2010, Editor's Choice
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Advent at Merton
Anna Steppler (organ)
Choir of Merton College, Oxford, Benjamin Nicholas & Peter Phillips
At the heart of this Advent service is a set of seven antiphons specially commissioned from seven composers for Merton College chapel. They work splendidly as a sequence...Peter Phillips and... —
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Jackson - Not no faceless Angel and other choral works
with Clare O'Connell (cello) & Katherine Bicknell (flute)
Polyphony, Stephen Layton
Not no faceless Angel', which takes a poem on bereavement as its basis. …is triumphantly holistic in its impact, with some soaring, ecstatic soprano writing particularly catching the ear, and... —
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Special offer. O Holy Night
Katherine Watson (soprano), Charlotte Ashley (soprano), Zoë Brookshaw (soprano), Nick Pritchard (tenor), Dominic Kraemer (bass), Samuel Pantcheff (bass), London Choral Sinfonia, Michael Waldron
All handsomely sung: there’s not a single dud track on this album —
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The fantastic balance of anthems, hymns and organ music leaps out in this arresting, fabulously performed Advent programme from St John’s, Cambridge. —
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Advent at Old St. Paul's
Calum Robertson (organ), John Kitchen (organ), Calum Robertson (clarinet)
Choir of Old St. Paul's Episcopal Church, Edinburgh
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