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 ...
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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...
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