Description
for SATB with divisions, unaccompanied This is a sensitive and uplifting setting of a text by Geraldine Atkinson, who tragically died aged 24. The reflective nature of the music makes it particularly suitable for memorials. This piece is suitable for either amateur and professional choirs.
About the Author
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.
Reviews
am the voice of the wind was commissioned by a member of the Vasari Singers in memory of a daughter who died cruelly young. The composer's ability to find a musical idea apposite to the subject is in evidence here, in this case a fluttering repeated figure in the sopranos that accompanies much of the piece. Textures are clean and pierced through with light, in line with the composer's intention to write a work 'as celebratory as it is memorialising'. * William Hedley, International Record Review, October 2012 *
Book Information
ISBN 9780193378490
Author Gabriel Jackson
Page Count 12
Imprint Oxford University Press
Publisher Oxford University Press
Weight(grams) 37g
About the Author
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.
Reviews
am the voice of the wind was commissioned by a member of the Vasari Singers in memory of a daughter who died cruelly young. The composer's ability to find a musical idea apposite to the subject is in evidence here, in this case a fluttering repeated figure in the sopranos that accompanies much of the piece. Textures are clean and pierced through with light, in line with the composer's intention to write a work 'as celebratory as it is memorialising'. * William Hedley, International Record Review, October 2012 *
Book Information
ISBN 9780193378490
Author Gabriel Jackson
Page Count 12
Imprint Oxford University Press
Publisher Oxford University Press
Weight(grams) 37g
