Jackson, Gabriel: The Passion of our Lord Jesus Christ

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Jackson, Gabriel: The Passion of our Lord Jesus Christ

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for SATB (with divisions), S. and T. solos, and 10 players Commissioned by Merton College, Oxford, this hour-long work is divided into seven movements. Jackson's setting takes material from each of the four Gospels, interspersed with Latin hymns and English texts by poets associated with the College.

ISBN: 9780193404236 (0193404230)

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There is little doubt that Jackson's work is a significant addition to the sacred choral repertoire

Jackson's music is gripping: often appropriately stark and graphic, there are also moments of great beauty, such as the soprano solo in the Anointing at Bethany sections . . . Eliot's words and Jackson's music combined to offer hope and a positive outlook. The music became ever more radiant, offering balm and reassurance after the events previously depicted . . . The standing ovation indicated that I was far from alone in being impressed and moved by this score. It's an important, eloquent work and I'm impatient to hear it again

A 10-piece ensemble, dominated by the glitter of harp, percussion and high woodwind, gives the work its dramatic scope, by turns taut and lean and then thickly spread, rich with melodic embroidery. The arresting opening - a saxophone erupting suddenly out of low instrumental rumbling into an ecstatic, primal arabesque of sound, like a latter-day Rite of Spring - sets the tone for a work whose chant-inflected lines and modal tonality speak directly and unaffectedly . . . It all adds up to an effective, emotionally charged contemporary Passion

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