G. Jackson - Beyond the Stars - Sacred Choral Works Vol. II.

ID: DCD34106 (EAN: 801918341069)  | 1 CD | DDD - 24 b
Released in: 2012

LABEL:

DELPHIAN RECORDS

Subcollection:

Choir

Composers:

JACKSON, Gabriel

Interprets:

WEARNE, Nicholas (organ)

Ensembles:

Choir of St. Mary’s Cathedral, Edinburgh

Conductors:

FERGUSON, Duncan

Other info:

Choir of St Mary's Cathedral, Edinburgh
Duncan Ferguson director
Nicholas Wearne organ


The Choir of St Mary's Cathedral is unique in Scotland in maintaining daily choral services in the Anglican tradition, and enjoys an international reputation for its daily services, broadcasts, recordings, concerts, and tours. The Cathedral was the first in the United Kingdom to allow girls to join boys as trebles in 1978 and then, in 2006, to allow female altos to sing alongside countertenors in the choir. Appointed in 2008, Organist and Master of the Music Duncan Ferguson has been instrumental in establishing the choir's status as one of UK's foremost cathedral choirs, whose recording catalogue now includes some six discs on Delphian.

Celebrating his 50th birthday in 2012, Gabriel Jackson has had a long and close association with the Choir of St Mary's Cathedral. This is the choir's second disc of Jackson's choral music on Delphian, and under Ferguson's dynamic direction they present a sequence of recording premieres that centre on the florid Hymn to St Margaret of Scotland, which has been newly written for the choir. A fitting celebration for Jackson's half-century, the disc opens a window on the luminous sound-world of one of Britain's finest choral composers.

Track listing

1 The Glory of the Lord
2 Fanfare for St Mary’s
3 The Christ-child
4 Hymn to St Margaret of Scotland
5 Jesu, Rex admirabilis Listen
6 Ah, mine heart
7-10 Missa Sanctae Margaretae
11 Justorum animae
12 Vidi aquam
13 Let us all rejoice in the Lord
14 In all his works
15 The Land of Spices
16 Ecce venio cito

Total playing time [68:38]

'...freshness, purity and liturgical glow. Duncan Ferguson, the master of music, is plainly a wizard'
- The Times