Edinburgh Mass

ISBN-13: 9780193356191 / Angielski / Miękka / 2006 / 20 str.

Opis

for SATB (with divisions) unaccompanied
This major work by one of Britain's leading choral composers was commissioned by St Mary's Cathedral, Edinburgh. The setting is terse and direct, in the manner of the Poulenc Mass, and the textures often unusually pared-down. By turns fiery and exuberant, and inward and numinous, the music includes a huge variety of textures and techniques, including flowing melismas, luminous key changes, and pure homophony. This is a work of great power that will appeal to committed concert and church choirs.

Recenzje

The Edinburgh Mass is a much more extrovert piece, unusually so in Jackson's choral output. There is a huge variety of textures . . . the virtuoso passage for trebles at Quoniam tu solus sanctus in the Gloria is particularly fun... There is a lightness of touch even when the mood is at its most forthright... This is not easy music to perform, but Jackson's varied and intelligent response to the text will reward the work of a committed choir. Recommended.

O autorze

One of Britain's foremost composers, after three years as a chorister at Canterbury Cathedral, Gabriel Jackson went on to study composition with Richard Blackford and John Lambert at the Royal College of Music. Particularly acclaimed for his choral works, his liturgical pieces are in the repertoires of most of Britain's cathedral and collegiate choirs and he is a frequent collaborator with the leading professional groups of the world. From 2010-2013 he was Associate Composer to the BBC Singers. In 2014 his hour-long The Passion of our Lord Jesus Christ, commissioned for the 750th anniversary of Merton College, Oxford, was premiered in its chapel. May 2015 saw the premiere at the Latvian National Opera of Spring Rounds for soprano, choir and orchestra, commissioned by the Riga-based youth choir Kamer for their 25th anniversary. He was recently commissioned by The Marian Consort to write Stabat Mater to mark their 10th anniversary.