Jackson: The Passion of Our Lord Jesus Christ
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GABRIEL JACKSON
Jackson: The Passion of Our Lord Jesus Christ
Guy Cutting, Emma Tring, Francesca Millar, Isabelle Blain, Samuel Costello / Choir of Merton College, Oxford, Benjamin Nicholas
[ Delphian / CD ]
Release Date: Sunday 1 December 2019
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Tenor Ed Lyon has been one of the UK's most versatile and sought-after soloists for over a decade. Now, for Delphian, comes his first solo recording project, inspired by the immediacy, joy and freedom found in seventeenth-century music.
Joined by Theatre of the Ayre - a flexible and innovative ensemble led by the lutenist Elizabeth Kenny - he has conceived his very own 'playlist': a live mixtape of the songs, simultaneously catchy and sophisticated, which became earworms for the listeners of their day.
"This outstanding recording of Gabriel Jackson's retelling of the Passion story bursts with energy... Jackson's engaging score is richly colourful and his instrumental writing proves a particular highlight" BBC Music Award WINNER 2020 - Choral
"Soloists and choir eloquently weave through the shifting perspectives of this work of exquisite imagination with involving feeling, and the Oxford Contemporary Sinfonia take to Jackson's often surprising but always richly executed orchestrations with aplomb. Quite unlike any Passion you've heard before, it is a rewarding work, deeply sincere, immediately accessible and deserving of much wider exposure." Choir & Organ Five Stars
"It's a work closely bound up with the college's history and community, but one that gives every promise of a rich future life beyond both…A 10-piece ensemble, dominated by the glitter of harp, percussion and high woodwind, gives the work its dramatic scope, by turns taut and lean and then thickly spread, rich with melodic embroidery" Gramophone
