Bermuda-born composer Gabriel Jackson grew up as a chorister at Canterbury Cathedral, and he has gained renown as a composer of accessible yet novel works for chorus. Some of his work is influenced by American R&B and soul music, but The Passion of Our Lord Jesus Christ is written mostly in a unique modal- and medieval-influenced idiom. Nevertheless, those new to Jackson would do well to start with this exceptionally powerful piece. The Passion of Our Lord Jesus Christ was commissioned by Merton College, Oxford, to mark its ...
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Bermuda-born composer Gabriel Jackson grew up as a chorister at Canterbury Cathedral, and he has gained renown as a composer of accessible yet novel works for chorus. Some of his work is influenced by American R&B and soul music, but The Passion of Our Lord Jesus Christ is written mostly in a unique modal- and medieval-influenced idiom. Nevertheless, those new to Jackson would do well to start with this exceptionally powerful piece. The Passion of Our Lord Jesus Christ was commissioned by Merton College, Oxford, to mark its 750th anniversary, as part of a new Merton Choirbook project aimed at assembling a volume of top-notch contemporary choral music, not all of it English. Jackson, accordingly, interpolates the works of diverse poets associated with Merton -- Thomas Carew, war poet Edmund Blunden, and, in the philosophical final movement, T.S. Eliot -- into biblical texts. Those texts come, unusually, from all four Gospels as well as other parts of the Bible. There is no Evangelist, so the action is...
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