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'Jackson's Requiem is a masterpiece in my view' International Record Review
Requiem
Vocal score
72 pages
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297x210mm
978-0-19-336487-5
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Paperback
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26 February 2009
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This important contemporary Requiem demonstrates Gabriel Jackson's gift for writing mesmerising choral music on a large scale. Combining sections of the traditional Requiem text with poems from other cultures and traditions, Jackson here has created a work which embraces a wide-ranging perspective on human mortality. Each movement is given a different character and musical style, and the result is a unique, sublime work which cannot fail to impress.
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unaccompaniedDuration30 minutesDifficultyModerately difficult to DifficultProgramme NotesThe original inspiration for my Requiem was to combine the hieratic, grave objectivity of the great Iberian Requiems with something more personal, intimate even, so as to reflect the individual as well as the universal experience of loss. To this end I have replaced alternate movements of the Latin Mass for the Dead with funereal poems from other cultures and spiritual traditions. The interesting thing about these very
different meditations on the meaning of human mortality-by the Buddhist Rabindranath Tagore, the Quaker Walt Whitman, Hojo Ujimasa the Samurai, the Australian Aboriginal poet Kevin Gilbert, and the eighteenth-century Mohican Chief Aupumut-is that ultimately they all express a similar view of death to the European Christian one: that it is not the end, but the gateway to another life. The resulting sequence, full of images of light and the promise of eternal life, is radiantly optimistic; this seems only right to me, as the purpose of any Requiem setting is surely to heal, and to console the living.
© Gabriel Jackson
Reproduced by permission of Oxford University Press
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Gabriel Jackson (b.1962) Gabriel Jackson was born in Bermuda. After three years as a chorister at Canterbury Cathedral he studied composition at the Royal College of Music. Jackson's music has been commissioned, performed and broadcast worldwide, and his works have been presented at many festivals including Aldeburgh, Cheltenham, Spitalfields, and the BBC Proms. His liturgical pieces are in the repertoires of many of Britain's cathedral and collegiate choirs, and his choral works in general have been recorded by some of the world's leading choirs including Polyphony, The Vasari Singers, The State Choir of Latvia, and Merton College Choir, Oxford. He is currently the Associate Composer to the BBC
Singers, who have premiered and broadcast a number of recent commissions. Over recent years Jackson's music has been equally focussed on instrumental works. Commissions include works for organist Michael Bonaventure, Red Note Ensemble, and the Lunar Sax Quartet.Gabriel Jackson's MySpace page
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"Jackson's skillful manipulation of color and texture make him one of our most interesting composers and this Requiem is very strong. The traditional Latin sections (he doesnt set the Die irae) flirt with older music, but their simple melodies and occasional use of drones voiced in daring textures is classic Jackson, familiar but absolutely unique. The interpolations are stunners. Epitaph with its stuttering rhythms, Autumn and its whispering effects and the breathtaking Peace, my heart (as lovely a piece of English choral writing you will ever hear in the post-Howells era) are all strong enough to stand on their own." - www.ariama.com "Jackson's setting is deeply affecting, notable for vocal effects that acknowledge, without a
trace of artifice, the origin of the words. Humour rarely surfaces in Requiem settings, but Jackson's music often surprises, and his treatment of an elliptical Japanese poem will surely provoke a smile . . . Jackson's Requiem is a masterpiece in my view, and the performance from the Vasari Singers and Jeremy Backhouse is beyond praise." - William Hedley, International Record Review, October 2012 "Soft, consolatory, warmly glowing: that's the atmosphere created by Gabriel Jackson in the opening movement of his Requiem. 'Radiantly optimistic' is Jackson's own way of describing the work, reflecting a belief that death is 'the gateway to a better world'." - Terry Blain, BBC Music Magazine, December 2012
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