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Bermuda-born British composer Gabriel Jackson writes a cappella choral music in the tonal, audience-friendly style he shares with so many of his contemporaries. Yet the music here is both distinctive and a bit more personal than is usually the case with, say, John Rutter. Jackson's Requiem mass (2008), which here receives its world premiere, combines the Latin requiem mass with texts by Japanese, Indian, and Australian aboriginal writers. Its seven sections express their texts quite vividly through difficult vocal runs and ornaments, making quite a challenge for the choir; the Vasari Singers are not a professional group, but the commitment with which they approach the material comes through. Jackson's mass and several of the shorter pieces included held specific meanings for members of the choir, one of whom, Geraldine Atkinson, contributed the text for Jackson's I Am the Voice of the Wind. Musically the program holds together as well; Jackson's style lies right between the "holy minimalism" of John Tavener and the slightly more harmonically complex idiom of Francis Pott, whose substantial When David Heard ends the program and balances the Jackson Requiem. The net result is a program of pieces, mostly heard here on recordings for the first time, that achieves its goal of a genuinely warm, consoling tone a bit reminiscent of the Brahms German Requiem. A fine addition to collections of contemporary British choral music.
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Requiem aeternam I (Gabriel Jackson)
Jeremy Backhouse, Conductor - Vasari Singers, Choir, MainArtist - Gabriel Jackson, Composer
(C) 2012 Naxos (P) 2012 Naxos
Requiem (Gabriel Jackson)
Jeremy Backhouse, Conductor - Vasari Singers, Choir, MainArtist - Gabriel Jackson, Composer
(C) 2012 Naxos (P) 2012 Naxos
Requiem aeternam II (Gabriel Jackson)
Jeremy Backhouse, Conductor - Vasari Singers, Choir, MainArtist - Gabriel Jackson, Composer
(C) 2012 Naxos (P) 2012 Naxos
Requiem (Gabriel Jackson)
Jeremy Backhouse, Conductor - Vasari Singers, Choir, MainArtist - Gabriel Jackson, Composer
(C) 2012 Naxos (P) 2012 Naxos
Jeremy Backhouse, Conductor - Vasari Singers, Choir, MainArtist - Gabriel Jackson, Composer
(C) 2012 Naxos (P) 2012 Naxos
Jeremy Backhouse, Conductor - Vasari Singers, Choir, MainArtist - Gabriel Jackson, Composer
(C) 2012 Naxos (P) 2012 Naxos
Jeremy Backhouse, Conductor - Vasari Singers, Choir, MainArtist - Gabriel Jackson, Composer
(C) 2012 Naxos (P) 2012 Naxos
In all his works (Gabriel Jackson)
Jeremy Backhouse, Conductor - Vasari Singers, Choir, MainArtist - Gabriel Jackson, Composer
(C) 2012 Naxos (P) 2012 Naxos
I am the voice of the wind (Gabriel Jackson)
Jeremy Backhouse, Conductor - Vasari Singers, Choir, MainArtist - Gabriel Jackson, Composer
(C) 2012 Naxos (P) 2012 Naxos
Canon and Gigue in D major (Johann Pachelbel)
Johann Pachelbel, Composer - Jeremy Backhouse, Conductor - Vasari Singers, Choir, MainArtist - Carl Herring, Artist
(C) 2012 Naxos (P) 2012 Naxos
Song for Athene (John Tavener)
Jeremy Backhouse, Conductor - Vasari Singers, Choir, MainArtist - John Tavener, Composer
(C) 2012 Naxos (P) 2012 Naxos
When David heard that Absalom was slain (Francis Pott)
Jeremy Backhouse, Conductor - Vasari Singers, Choir, MainArtist - Francis Pott, Composer
(C) 2012 Naxos (P) 2012 Naxos
Album review
Bermuda-born British composer Gabriel Jackson writes a cappella choral music in the tonal, audience-friendly style he shares with so many of his contemporaries. Yet the music here is both distinctive and a bit more personal than is usually the case with, say, John Rutter. Jackson's Requiem mass (2008), which here receives its world premiere, combines the Latin requiem mass with texts by Japanese, Indian, and Australian aboriginal writers. Its seven sections express their texts quite vividly through difficult vocal runs and ornaments, making quite a challenge for the choir; the Vasari Singers are not a professional group, but the commitment with which they approach the material comes through. Jackson's mass and several of the shorter pieces included held specific meanings for members of the choir, one of whom, Geraldine Atkinson, contributed the text for Jackson's I Am the Voice of the Wind. Musically the program holds together as well; Jackson's style lies right between the "holy minimalism" of John Tavener and the slightly more harmonically complex idiom of Francis Pott, whose substantial When David Heard ends the program and balances the Jackson Requiem. The net result is a program of pieces, mostly heard here on recordings for the first time, that achieves its goal of a genuinely warm, consoling tone a bit reminiscent of the Brahms German Requiem. A fine addition to collections of contemporary British choral music.
© TiVo
About the album
- 1 disc(s) - 12 track(s)
- Total length: 01:09:20
- 1 Digital booklet
- Main artists: Vasari Singers Jeremy Backhouse Carl Herring
- Composer: Various Composers
- Label: Naxos
- Genre: Classical Vocal Music (Secular and Sacred) Choral Music (Choirs)
(C) 2012 Naxos (P) 2012 Naxos
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