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Gabriel Jackson: Sacred Choral WorksSUMMARY TRACK LISTING REVIEWS INFO The culmination of a four year association between the choir of St Marys Cathedral and British Composer Award winner Gabriel Jackson, this disc presents nine world premiere recordings. Whether gentle and meditative, brilliantly exuberant, or soaring in ecstatic contemplation, Jacksons vividly communicative music is brought thrillingly to life by a choir at the peak of its powers. "Owens fully understands the

particularly where the rich choral sonorities are woven around instrumental accompaniments

"There is at work here an amazing sense of choral discipline combined with genuinely exultant joy

"Composure complements adventure

is an uneasy corner of the oeuvre

Peter Nelson and Bonaventure himself

the package gives you an insight into a cultural milieu where things weren’t so different from ours after all

it certainly will whet your interest in future projects by this unique and genuinely talented composer

and one can only hope that more ensembles and choirs will include some of his compositions in their repertoire

Kitchen ranges from transcriptions of popular orchestral works to the tortured ‘Weinen

Recorded on 2-4 January 2003 at Reid Concert Hall

All 11 works on this disc are first recordings and are full of colour

with an unashamedly exciting Gloria and leaping hosannas