Gabriel Jackson https://gabrieljackson.london/ Composer Sun, 21 Jul 2024 10:50:57 +0000 en-US hourly 1 Recordings in Philadelphia and Canterbury https://gabrieljackson.london/recordings-in-philadelphia-and-canterbury/ Sun, 21 Jul 2024 10:50:57 +0000 https://gabrieljackson.london/?p=8032 In June, Donald Nally and The Crossing spent five days recording all the (ofter ferociously difficult!) pieces I’ve written for them over the years in a wonderful acoustic space in rural Pennsylvania.  The rccording will be released by Navona Records in Atumn 2025. The following month saw the first three sessions for a Resonus Classics […]

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]]> In June, Donald Nally and The Crossing spent five days recording all the (ofter ferociously difficult!) pieces I’ve written for them over the years in a wonderful acoustic space in rural Pennsylvania.  The rccording will be released by Navona Records in Atumn 2025.

The following month saw the first three sessions for a Resonus Classics disc of recent choral and organ pieces. Canterbury Cathedral Choir was conducted by David Newsholme with organist Jamie Rogers and saxophonist Sam Corkin. Works recorded include Praise Ye The Lord, written for the 10th Anniversary of Canterbury’s Girl Choristers and Ave Maris stella for choir and alto saxophone which combined the medieval Latin text with a modern poem by the Latvian Anna Rancāne. The disc with will be completed with further sessions in October.

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]]> New CD releases https://gabrieljackson.london/new-cd-releases/ Sun, 03 Sep 2023 09:59:27 +0000 https://gabrieljackson.london/?p=7532 Released on Ulysses Arts on 6 October, the new album All shall be Amen  from the Kent-based Caritas Chamber Choir  features premiere recordings of four of my works, including the title track of the album. On 8 September Palimpsest, a collection of re-imaginings of existing pieces by 15 different composers, will be released by Signum Classics. […]

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]]> Released on Ulysses Arts on 6 October, the new album All shall be Amen  from the Kent-based Caritas Chamber Choir  features premiere recordings of four of my works, including the title track of the album.

On 8 September Palimpsest, a collection of re-imaginings of existing pieces by 15 different composers, will be released by Signum Classics. Performed by saxophonist Sam Corkin and Canterbury Cathedral Choir, my contribution is Sancte Deus, a palipmsest of the Jesus Antiphon of the same name by Thomas Tallis who, like me, sang in Canterbury Cathedral Choir in his youth.

The end of January 2024 will see the first perfomance of Praise ye the Lord, commissioned to celebrate the 10th anniversary of girl choristers joining Canterbury Cathedral Choir and will be the centrepiece of a new album of my work, to be recorded next summer.

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]]> New album – New Suns https://gabrieljackson.london/new-album-new-suns/ Mon, 23 May 2022 15:26:24 +0000 https://gabrieljackson.london/?p=6931 Newly released on Open G Records, the debut album from the brilliant Phildelphia vocal sextet Variant 6 includes the premiere recordings of Zero Point Reflection (commissioned by Juice Vocal Ensemble) and Spring (commissioned by EXAUDI for the Michael Tippett centenary).

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]]> Newly released on Open G Records, the debut album from the brilliant Phildelphia vocal sextet Variant 6 includes the premiere recordings of Zero Point Reflection (commissioned by Juice Vocal Ensemble) and Spring (commissioned by EXAUDI for the Michael Tippett centenary).

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]]> The World Imagined https://gabrieljackson.london/the-world-imagined/ Wed, 21 Apr 2021 11:33:00 +0000 https://gabrieljackson.london/?p=6593 The World Imagined, a 45-minute oratorio commissioned by the Three Choirs Festival and the Elgin Master Chorale will have its first performance in Worcester Cathedral on 27 July. Nick Pritchard is the tenor soloist, with the Three Choirs Festival Chorus and the Philharmonia Orchestra, conducted by David Hill.  The US premiere will be in Spring 2022.

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]]> The World Imagined, a 45-minute oratorio commissioned by the Three Choirs Festival and the Elgin Master Chorale will have its first performance in Worcester Cathedral on 27 July. Nick Pritchard is the tenor soloist, with the Three Choirs Festival Chorus and the Philharmonia Orchestra, conducted by David Hill. 

The US premiere will be in Spring 2022.

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]]> Latvian ‘Golden Microphone’ Awards https://gabrieljackson.london/latvian-golden-microphone-awards/ Thu, 27 Feb 2020 12:47:00 +0000 http://gabrieljackson.london/?p=6270 At Latvia’s annual music recording ‘Golden Microphone‘ awards, the Classical or Choral prize for 2020 went to Youth Choir Kamēr… for Kalpotais. Blumbergs. Kamēr…  The first track on the album is my Blumbergs in Venice, commissioned by the choir in 2018.

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]]> At Latvia’s annual music recording ‘Golden Microphone‘ awards, the Classical or Choral prize for 2020 went to Youth Choir Kamēr… for Kalpotais. Blumbergs. Kamēr…  The first track on the album is my Blumbergs in Venice, commissioned by the choir in 2018.

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]]> BBC Music Magazine Awards https://gabrieljackson.london/bbc-music-magazine-awards/ Fri, 17 Jan 2020 21:17:39 +0000 http://gabrieljackson.london/?p=6216 The Delphian Records recording of The Passion of our Lord Jesus Christ has been shortlisted for a BBC Music Magazine Award in the choral category. Public voting ends on 16 February and the winners will be announced at a special ceremony on 22 April at King’s Place in London.  The disc was also acclaimed as one […]

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]]> The Delphian Records recording of The Passion of our Lord Jesus Christ has been shortlisted for a BBC Music Magazine Award in the choral category. Public voting ends on 16 February and the winners will be announced at a special ceremony on 22 April at King’s Place in London. 

The disc was also acclaimed as one of the best recordings of 2019 by Choir & Organ magazine, allmusic.com and MusicWeb International.

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]]> Three Choirs Festival https://gabrieljackson.london/three-choirs-festival/ Wed, 11 Sep 2019 10:23:31 +0000 http://gabrieljackson.london/?p=5941 I have been commissioned by the Three Choirs Festival and the Elgin Master Chorale to write a 45-minute piece for tenor, chorus and orchestra. The texts for this multi-movement piece are by Ha-Nagid, Leopardi, Doris Kareva, Walt Whitman, Kenneth White, St Ambrose and Wallace Stevens. The first performance will be given by Nick Pritchard, the […]

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]]> I have been commissioned by the Three Choirs Festival and the Elgin Master Chorale to write a 45-minute piece for tenor, chorus and orchestra. The texts for this multi-movement piece are by Ha-Nagid, Leopardi, Doris Kareva, Walt Whitman, Kenneth White, St Ambrose and Wallace Stevens. The first performance will be given by Nick Pritchard, the Three Choirs Festival Chorus and the Philharmonia Orchestra, conducted by David Hill in Worcester Cathedral on 31 July 2020, with the US premiere in November 2021. 

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]]> Outstanding reviews for The Passion of our Lord Jesus Christ https://gabrieljackson.london/outstanding-reviews-for-the-passion-of-our-lord-jesus-christ/ Thu, 04 Jul 2019 09:04:12 +0000 http://gabrieljackson.london/?p=5831 The Delphian recording of The Passion of our Lord Jesus Christ continues to receive outstanding reviews. It was an ‘Editor’s Choice’ in the April edition of Gramophone magazine, who called it “…an effective, emotionally charged contemporary Passion…”. BBC Music Magazine named it ‘Choral and Song Choice’ in their May/June issue – “…an imaginative, moving and majestic […]

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]]> The Delphian recording of The Passion of our Lord Jesus Christ continues to receive outstanding reviews. It was an ‘Editor’s Choice’ in the April edition of Gramophone magazine, who called it “…an effective, emotionally charged contemporary Passion…”. BBC Music Magazine named it ‘Choral and Song Choice’ in their May/June issue – “…an imaginative, moving and majestic telling of the Passion story that deserves the widest of audiences.” Musicweb described it as “a score of great importance” and “…a compelling, dramatic narrative and a deeply thoughtful series of reflections on the narrative…” while Classical Music Daily called it “Richly imaginative and strikingly coloured…a work of deep spirituality and profound dramatic impact that complements the ecstatic sorrow of the story within a well nigh perfect musical structure. ” For theArtsdesk.com, is was a “…very singable work, one which would take a hard heart not to love…” and Choir and Organ magazine called it “…modern, majestic and deeply moving…”, awarding it the maximum 5 stars in the March/April edition. And for AllMusic it is simply”…the most persuasive setting of the Passion to have appeared in many years.”

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]]> The Sixteen’s 2019 Choral Pilgrimage https://gabrieljackson.london/the-sixteens-2019-choral-pilgrimage/ Wed, 27 Feb 2019 13:53:31 +0000 http://gabrieljackson.london/?p=5509 Celebrating their 40th Anniversary this year, The Sixteen will include Ave Maria in their 2019 Choral Pilgrimage programme alongside works by James MacMillan, Eric Whitacre, John Tavener and several early Tudor masterpieces. The pilgrimage starts at King’s Place in London on 3 April and continues throughout the year with nearly thirty concerts in all. In advance […]

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]]> Celebrating their 40th Anniversary this year, The Sixteen will include Ave Maria in their 2019 Choral Pilgrimage programme alongside works by James MacMillan, Eric Whitacre, John Tavener and several early Tudor masterpieces. The pilgrimage starts at King’s Place in London on 3 April and continues throughout the year with nearly thirty concerts in all. In advance of the first concert a new CD, An Enduring Voice, containing the entire Pilgrimage programme, will be released on 1 March.

Also available in March is the ORA Singers‘ new recording Desires, which includes I am the Rose of Sharon, originally written for Opus Anglicanum.

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]]> The Passion of our Lord Jesus Christ on CD https://gabrieljackson.london/the-passion-of-our-lord-jesus-christ-on-cd/ Tue, 12 Feb 2019 16:05:37 +0000 http://gabrieljackson.london/?p=5475 On 29 March Delphian Records will release the premiere recording of The Passion of our Lord Jesus Christ.  Benjamin Nicholas conducts the Choir of Merton College, Oxford (who commissioned the piece for the Merton Choirbook), the Oxford Contemporary Sinfonia and soloists Emma Tring and Guy Cutting. In the first review of the new CD to be […]

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]]> On 29 March Delphian Records will release the premiere recording of The Passion of our Lord Jesus Christ.  Benjamin Nicholas conducts the Choir of Merton College, Oxford (who commissioned the piece for the Merton Choirbook), the Oxford Contemporary Sinfonia and soloists Emma Tring and Guy Cutting. In the first review of the new CD to be published, Choir and Organ magazine has described the work as “Quite unlike any Passion you’ve heard before…modern, majestic and deeply moving.” 

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