Gabriel Jackson Catalogue

Gabriel Jackson 

Catalogue

Gabriel Jackson 

‘Prominent among his British contemporaries by reason 

of a prolific output and engaging style, Gabriel Jackson 

is now enjoying much attention by some of the nation’s 

finest choirs. Jackson is a master at turning a memorable 

phrase; a motif or pattern grasps the listener and is 

immediately appealing.’ – Philip Barnes, Choral Journal 

(US) 

‘He knows he has something to say, and he says it with 

directness and clarity.’ – The Times 

One of Britain’s foremost and celebrated composers, 

Gabriel Jackson was born in Bermuda in 1962. After 

three years as a chorister at Canterbury Cathedral, 

Jackson went on to study composition with Richard 

Blackford and with John Lambert at the Royal College of 

Music. 

In April 2014 his hour-long The Passion of our Lord Jesus 

Christ, commissioned for the 750th anniversary of 

Merton College, Oxford, had its first performance in the 

college chapel. This has been recorded for commercial 

release in 2019. 

May 2015 saw the premiere, at the Latvian National 

Opera, of his half-hour piece for soprano, choir, and 

orchestra Spring Rounds, commissioned by the Rigabased 

youth choir Kamēr for their 25th anniversary. He 

was commissioned by The Marian Consort to write a 

Stabat Mater to mark their 10th anniversary in 2018. This 

has been commercially recorded and sits alongside a 

growing number of recordings in his catalogue. 

Countless and wonderful are the 

ways to praise God 

SATB and string orchestra 

Vocal scores on hire 9780193400887 

Conductor’s score and parts on hire 9780193395275 

This piece sets part two of the poet Doris Kareva’s 

collection Shape of Time, which she describes as ‘a message 

of hope through beauty’. In this work Jackson contrasts 

busy, vibrant string writing, which he uses to illustrate the 

striking images in Kareva’s poem, with sustained vocal 

lines, resulting in a work that is both static and ecstatic. 

9 minutes 

Edinburgh Mass 

SATB (with divisions) unaccompanied 

Vocal score 9780193356191 

This major work was commissioned by St Mary’s Cathedral, 

Edinburgh. The setting is terse and direct, in the manner 

of the Poulenc Mass, and the textures often unusually 

pared-down. By turns fiery and exuberant, and inward and 

numinous, the music includes a huge variety of textures 

and techniques, including flowing melismas, luminous key 

changes, and pure homophony. A work of great power that 

will appeal to committed concert and church choirs. 

13 minutes 

Mass for All Saints 

SATB and organ 

Vocal score 9780193390072 

Mass for All Saints is a captivating setting of the Latin Missa 

brevis. The accessible choral lines, idiomatic organ part, 

and colourful harmonies make this an ideal work for choirs 

looking for a fresh take on familiar words. 

17 minutes 

Choral Works Sacred 

Missa Sanctae Margaretae 


Vocal score 9780193377554 

Missa Sanctae Margaretae is a stunning setting of the 

Missa Brevis, showcasing Jackson’s mesmerizing choral 

writing. The accessible choral lines move through a 

variety of textures and harmonies. The idiomatic organ 

accompaniment brings additional flavour to the music, 

sometimes answering the choral lines, sometimes 

offsetting them with fast, rhythmic passages. Ideal for use 

in services and concerts. 

12 minutes 

Missa Triueriensis 

SATB unaccompanied 

Vocal score 9780193385849 

Missa Triueriensis was written to celebrate Jackson’s father’s 

75th birthday in 2005. A setting of the Mass in Latin, 

written for the Truro Cathedral Choir. 

12 minutes 

The Passion of our Lord Jesus 

Christ 

Solo soprano, solo tenor, SATB, and ten players 

Vocal score 9780193404236 

Vocal score on hire 9780193404717 


Commissioned by Merton College, Oxford, this hour-long 

work for soloists, choir, and ten players is divided into 

seven movements, beginning with Palm Sunday. Jackson’s 

setting takes material from each of the four Gospel 

narratives, interspersed with Latin hymns and English texts 

by poets associated with Merton College over the centuries 

including Edmund Blunden and T. S. Eliot. 

60 minutes 


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 to 2013 he was Associate Composer to the BBC 

Singers. 

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3


Requiem 


Vocal score 9780193364875 


Combining sections of the traditional Requiem text 

with poems from other cultures and traditions, Jackson 

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. 

30 minutes 

Salve Regina 2 

SSAATTBB unaccompanied 

Vocal score 9780193385863 

Written in 2004, Jackson harks back to the time of the Eton 

Choirbook with this expansive polyphonic Salve Regina, 

with its intricate and delicate interspersions in English 

decorating the celebrated Latin hymn in praise of Mary. He 

sets the words thoughtfully with climaxes and resolutions, 

contemplative passages, and grandiose fanfare-like 

moments. 

13 minutes 

Sanctum est verum lumen 

40-part unaccompanied SATBarB 


Sanctum est verum lumen was written as a companion piece 

to Spem in alium to celebrate the Tallis quincentenary. 

Jackson explores a variety of ways of combining the forty 

voices: there are massive contrapuntal tuttis, antiphonal 

exchanges between groups of singers, huge monolithic 

chords, and an ‘über gimel’ for the eight sopranos alone. 

The piece is essentially about light, and the text, though 

funereal in origin, is radiantly optimistic and invites a 

variety of ways of evoking that sense of light in music. 

10 minutes 

Seven Advent Antiphons 


Vocal score 9780193408265 

These attractive settings of the ancient Latin Advent 

Antiphons will be of interest to any choir seeking 

imaginative material for Advent or Christmas 

performances. Within a largely diatonic style, Jackson 

deploys rich and varied harmonies, and the music traverses 

a wide canvas between contemplative stillness and bursts 

of rhythmic energy. 

The Spacious Firmament 

SATB, brass quintet, and organ 

Vocal score 9780193363236 

Brass parts 9780193363212 

Setting Joseph Addison’s much-loved text, Jackson 

explores the use of vivid imagery the poem provides 

through this dramatic medium. In his celebrated style, 

Jackson accompanies imaginative choral writing with 

bright fanfares for the two trumpets, dancing chorales 

for the brass, coruscating figuration from the organ, and 

solo horn whoops over whispering arpeggios. Only at the 

end do all the forces unite for the first time in a clanging, 

celebratory conclusion. 

11 minutes 

The Spacious Firmament 2 

SATB and trumpet 

Vocal score 9780193368675 

The Spacious Firmament 2: Yet we who neither burn nor shine 

is a sequel to The Spacious Firmament. Both pieces may be 

performed separately, but The Spacious Firmament should 

always come first if they are programmed together. 

7 minutes 

Stabat Mater 

SSSSAATTBB unaccompanied 

Vocal score 9780193524422 

Written for The Marian Consort, Jackson’s work is a striking, 

modern setting of this ancient text. The composer’s 

trademark diversity of texture is evident, with passages of 

rich sonority giving way to intimate soloistic sections. The 

piece will be a satisfying challenge for a proficient choir. 

20 minutes 

Three Prayers, with a Vision of Light 

SATB unaccompanied (with divisions) 

Vocal score 9780193395732 

Three Prayers, with a Vision of Light sets early Christian 

texts by St Augustine of Hippo, Baldwin of Forde, and St 

Mary Magdalene de Pazzi alongside words by Estonian 

poet Doris Kareva. Each movement offers a change of 

mood, from the reflective ‘Conversi ad Dominum’ to the 

more urgent and pleading ‘Aufer a me, Domine’ and 

serene ‘Veni, Sancte Spiritus’, with ‘He who lives in 

light’ offering an expressive and contrasting central 

movement. 

16.5 minutes 

To the Field of Stars 

SATB, percussion and, cello 

Vocal score 9780193409811 

Vocal and instrumental scores on hire 9780193376427 

A work on the subject of pilgrimages to Santiago de 

Compostela, To the Field of Stars features a variety of 

texts on the nature of travel and worship. Underpinned 

by evocative cello and percussion lines, Jackson’s choral 

writing offers fragments of spoken lines and unexpected 

melodic twists, while a refrain recurs in a new musical 

guise after each movement. The piece reaches its climax 

in the sixth movement when quiet, freely repeated choral 

notes ring out against cello and crotales, creating a musical 

‘field of stars’. Mysterious and beautiful, this piece offers an 

rewarding challenge for choirs. 

30 minutes 

The World Imagined 

Solo tenor, SATB (with divisions), and orchestra 

picc. 2fl, 2ob, c.a., 2cl, bass cl, 2bsn, contrabsn, 4hn, 3tpt, 2tbn, 

bass tbn, tba, perc(3 players), hp, str 

Vocal score 9780193540200 


The World Imagined explores themes around the smallness 

of man, the apprehension of the divine in everything 

around us, and our ecstatic communion within that 

vastness. The powerfully evocative texts invite deep 

spiritual contemplation, and are drawn from diverse 

sources ranging from an early Latin hymn by St Ambrose to 

contemporary poems by Doris Kareva and Kenneth White. 

NB: This work can be performed in a secular or sacred 

context. Movement 4 contains some short Latin text of St 

Ambrose. 

43 minutes 

Choral Leaflets/Octavos Sacred 

Adoro te devote 


Vocal score 9780193392489 

This short work sets the Eucharistic hymn by Thomas 

Aquinas. It starts with an expressive, rhythmic soprano line, 

and finishes with a calm, homophonic passage. 

3 minutes 

Aeterna caeli gloria 


Vocal score 9780193361683 

This dramatic setting of a fifth-century Ambrosian hymn 

perfectly epitomises the jubilation of the text. Rhythmically 

complex with melismatic passages, the composer writes: 

‘I am very drawn to radiant, light-filled texts, with their 

invitation to try and create a dazzling brightness of choral 

sound. The opening of Aeterna caeli gloria attempts such a 

fierce brilliance.’ 

6 minutes 

Ah, mine heart 

SSAATB unaccompanied 

Vocal score 9780193505087 

This short expressive piece sets a fifteenth-century 

penitential poem of great fervour. Jackson alternates a 

refrain in a simple plainsong style with more passionate, 

homophonic verses, to powerful effect. 

3 minutes 

All shall be Amen 


Vocal score 9780193415690 

This powerful motet sets a reflective text by Augustine of 

Hippo. Connoisseurs of Jackson’s music will recognize the 

hallmarks of his highly accessible style: inventive harmony 

that is largely diatonic but never plain, and textures that 

encompass the blazingly sonorous and the expressively 

intimate. 

4.5 minutes 


16 minutes 

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Angeli, archangeli 

SSATB unaccompanied 

Vocal score 9780193361713 

Commemorating the martyrdom of St Catharine, this 

reflective piece sets the Antiphon at First Vespers, Feast of 

All Saints alongside a thought-provoking contemporary 

poem by Colin Tan, full of vivid imagery. Melodic lines 

reminiscent of plainchant enhance the contemplative 

mood. 

7 minutes 

Ave Dei patris filia 


Vocal score 9780193385498 

Written in celebration of the 40th anniversary of the Tallis 

Scholars, this joyful and virtuosic antiphon captures a 

sense of both jubilation and devotion, in keeping with the 

spirit of the anniversary. 

8 minutes 

Ave gloriosa mater salvatoris 


Vocal score 9780193404847 

Ave gloriosa mater salvatoris is a challenging and yet 

delicate anthem, with subtle key-signature changes, vocal 

divisions in up to eight parts, and alternating homophonic 

and polyphonic passages. The text includes excerpts from 

the synonymous medieval hymn and Wordsworth’s poem 

‘The Virgin’, making the piece suitable for a variety of 

sacred celebrations and particularly those of the Blessed 

Virgin Mary. 

9 minutes 

Ave Maria 


Vocal score 9780193355491 

This is a deeply compelling setting of the familiar text. 

The piece commences with a series of contemplative 

exchanges between the upper and lower voices; the 

ensuing, unexpected changes of key and texture are 

potently effective, and typical of Jackson’s compositional 

style. 

7 minutes 

Ave, Regina caelorum 

SATB and electric guitar 

Vocal score 9780193375734 

Electric guitar part 9780193412521 

In this spacious motet Jackson creates an original soundworld 

in praise of the Virgin Mary. Traditional Latin texts 

are combined with a Christina Rossetti poem celebrating 

the Annunciation. Jackson’s inclusion of the electric guitar 

offers a unique sound, bringing a contrast of ancient and 

modern in this expansive anthem. 

11 minutes 

But let my due feet never fail 

SATB (with divisions) and organ 

Vocal score 9780193395749 

This anthem sets a descriptive passage from Milton’s Il 

Penseroso that sees the poet ask for guidance as he enters 

the ‘studious Cloysters pale’. Jackson sensitively sets the 

words in homophonic and melismatic passages that build 

to a glorious climax for both choir and organ on ‘And 

bring all Heav’n before mine eyes’. Ideal for dedications, 

ordinations, and confirmation services. 

7 minutes 

Cantate Domino 


Vocal score 9780193402843 

This setting of Psalm 95, written for Truro Cathedral Choir, 

is evocative and subtle in its use of colour and texture. The 

piece has independent organ passages, an intense musical 

climax, and a last verse akin to a gentle chorale. 

5 minutes 

Cecilia Virgo 

SSSAAATTTBBB double choir with divisions 

unaccompanied 

Vocal score 9780193439085 

This expansive piece, inspired by the great motets of the 

Eton Choirbook, requires twenty–four singers. It sets an 

anonymous sixteenth-century text of supplication to St 

Cecilia. From the cascading imitation of its opening to the 

monolithic triads of its close, it remains spellbinding and 

invokes a powerful sense of the divine. 

8 minutes 

Ecce Venio Cito 


Vocal score 9780193392472 

This stunning setting of Revelation 22:12–13,17, describes 

Christ’s generous offering of grace to ‘whoever is willing’. 

The piece begins with a lively opening but quickly shifts 

into a gentler mood, giving way to Jackson’s rich harmonic 

language and inventive choral textures. 

5 minutes 

Felices ter et amplius 

SATB double choir unaccompanied 

Vocal score 9780193410817 

This celebratory anthem for double choir is set to the 

words of the Roman lyric poet Horace. Jackson combines 

declamatory unison passages for full choir with more lyrical 

polyphonic phrases shared between the voices, which are 

sometimes accompanied by repeated figures in free time. 

A powerful and joyous piece. 

6 minutes 

The Glory of the Lord 


Vocal score 9780193376502 

This sacred a cappella work is a joyous anthem, written for 

the Papal visit to Westminster Abbey in September 2010. 

2 minutes 

Holy is the true light 


Vocal score 9780193407244 

Jackson’s Holy is the true light sets a text translated from 

the Salisbury Diurnal that emphasizes the solace of faith 

in times of conflict. The fluid changes in time and key 

signatures and effective division of voices create a strong 

musical impression of serenity and strength. 

3 minutes 

Hymn to St Margaret of Scotland 


Vocal score 9780193382664 

Jackson’s Hymn to St Margaret of Scotland couples the 

expressive language of a medieval Latin hymn with the 

Collect for St Margaret of Scotland ‘O God, who didst call 

thy servant’ taken from the 1929 Scottish Book of Common 

Prayer. The use of hockets and isorhythms give the 

music a deep medieval grounding, whilst the beautifully 

ornamented melodies bring out a distinctively ‘Scottish’ 

sound to this dramatic work. 

Hymn to the Trinity (Honor, Virtus, 

et Potestas) 


Vocal score 9780193355507 

An uplifting and powerful setting of the Trinity Sunday 

text with achingly pure and fluid melodic lines featured 

throughout, imbuing the piece with characteristic clarity 

and luminosity. The change to A major for ‘Trinitati in 

Unitate’ is radiant, as is the final section, in which the choir 

divides into eight parts to proclaim the glory of the Trinity. 

6 minutes 

I say that we are wound with 

mercy 


Vocal score 9780193403277 

Setting a section from ‘The Blessed Virgin Compared 

to the Air we Breathe’ by Gerard Manley Hopkins, this 

Marian piece opens with an extended soprano passage, 

underpinned by soft yet characterful organ writing. Several 

hallmarks of Jackson’s style are evident, including soaring, 

melismatic soprano lines, sonorous harmonies, and 

repeated organ motifs. 

6 minutes 

In all his works 

ATTBB unaccompanied 

Vocal score 9780193376410 

This piece was written in memory of Alan Wicks, Organist 

and Master of the Choristers at Canterbury Cathedral, and 

draws its text from Ecclesiastes. Jackson sang as a chorister 

under Wicks’ direction and the fondness of memories of his 

time in the choir are reflected in the work. Jackson writes: 

‘The extraordinary text might have been written about 

him, and in the piece I tried to achieve a little something of 

the solemnity, the joy and, at times, the ecstatic intensity 

that were characteristic of his great musicianship.’ 

4 minutes 


8 minutes 

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In memoriam 


Vocal score 9780193403703 

Setting a stanza of Tennyson’s monumental and profound 

poem In Memoriam A.H.H., Jackson’s work deals with 

reflections on loss and grief. By effectively alternating 

upper and lower voices and soloists, the piece offers a 

solemn, but ultimately hopeful, exploration of mortality 

and the human condition, making it appropriate for any 

memorial or remembrance service. 

4 minutes 

In the beginning was the Word 


Vocal score 9780193368781 

In the beginning was the Word provides a welcome musical 

setting of this iconic biblical text. The choral lines combine 

plainchant with harmonically intricate passages, and all is 

complemented by a soloistic organ part. 

11 minutes 

Ite Missa Est 

ATBarB unaccompanied 

Vocal score 9780193395268 

This is a setting of the words used to conclude a 

communion service: ‘The Mass is ended, thanks be to 

God.’ The tenor’s heraldic opening leads into the highly 

rhythmic ‘Deo Gratias’ section. Ideal for the end of a festal 

or celebratory Mass. 

2 minutes 

Jesu, Rex admirabilis 


Vocal score 9780193371644 

Written to commemorate the 500th anniversary of the 

death of the Foundress of St John’s College, Cambridge, 

this celebratory setting is jubilant, melodic, and full of lively 

figuration for both the choir and the organ. 

5 minutes 

Justorum animae 


Vocal score 9780193368705 

Meaning ‘Souls of the Righteous’, this reflective anthem is 

especially suitable for the Feast of All Saints but may be 

sung at any time of year. Jackson masterfully balances the 

still, mesmerizing music of the opening and close with a 

more agitated and emotionally powerful central section. 

4 minutes 

Lamentations of Jeremiah 


Vocal score 9780193388376 

The text recounts the destruction of the ancient city of 

Jerusalem by King Nebuchadnezzar in 586 BC. Jackson 

has described his setting of the Prophet Jeremiah’s text as 

‘a more personal, immediate response to these uniquely 

desolate words’. 

8 minutes 

The Land of Spices 

Unison upper voices and organ 

Vocal score 9780193371651 

Setting a text by George Herbert depicting the awe and 

mystery of the Christian faith, this simple work for upper 

voices and organ makes full use of Jackson’s gift for 

melody, with his trademark florid organ accompaniment. 

4 minutes 

Let us all rejoice in the Lord 


Vocal score 9780193365759 

This anthem sets the Antiphon at All Saints to a lively 

melody and rich, sonorous harmonies. Opening and 

closing with a drawn-out melisma, the music moves 

between different rhythms and textures, from the short 

offbeat rhythms after the opening to the smooth but 

equally rhythmic music in the middle section. 

2.5 minutes 

Luce coruscas (herself a rose) 

SATB (with divisions) 

Vocal score 9780193392465 

Translated as ‘Shining with light’, Luce coruscas sets a hymn 

for Vespers on the Feast of the Assumption, followed by 

the poem ‘Herself a Rose’ by Christina Rossetti. Jackson 

employs his signature harmonies and descriptive working 

of the text within an expansive polyphony to create a 

large-scale expressive anthem to the Blessed Virgin Mary. 

9 minutes 

Magnificat and Nunc Dimittis 

(Tewkesbury Service) 


Vocal score 9780193360136 

This fine set of canticles has been described by many as a 

homage to Herbert Howells. In the Magnificat, the long, 

melismatic opening for trebles alone, accompanied by a 

light, bubbling organ part is particular reminiscent. The 

exciting doxology is underpinned by a toccata-like organ 

accompaniment and the setting rises to a majestic ‘as it was 

in the beginning’. The Nunc Dimittis is prayerful, beginning 

with tenors and basses only. The whole choir joins in at ‘To 

be a light’ with luminous harmonies. 

11 minutes 

Magnificat and Nunc Dimittis 

(Truro Service) 


Vocal score 9780193439238 

Digital 9780193539358 

This beautiful and spacious Magnificat and Nunc Dimittis 

is pure Jackson. Alternating stripped back, plainchant-style 

sections with homo-rhythmic passages for full choir, this 

music possesses an understated emotional intensity. The 

glorious key changes at the end of both the Magnificat and 

the Nunc Dimittis are spine-tingling. 

7 minutes 

Now I have known, O Lord 


Vocal score 9780193355538 

This anthem is set to a text by the tenth-century Sufi 

mystic, Al-Junaid. For the most part, the mood is intimate 

and introspective; intertwining, whispered melodies, 

sometimes in free time, alternate with quiet homophony. 

There is a moment of unrestrained ecstasy towards the end 

of the piece before it draws to a hushed conclusion. 

7 minutes 

O Doctor Optime 

SSATB (with divisions) unaccompanied 

Vocal score 9780193385856 

This work was awarded the British Composer Award for 

Liturgical Music in 2003. The Roman Catholic Liturgy 

includes an antiphon to the Magnificat at Vespers, O 

Doctor optime, which Jackson sets incorporating medieval 

influences such as plainsong. 

3 minutes 

O fear the Lord 


Vocal score 9780193505094 

O fear the Lord is an approachable and beautiful setting 

of two verses from Psalm 34. A controlled organum-style 

opening gives way to a fervent, harmonic middle section. 

3 minutes 

O quam gloriosum 


Vocal score 9780193410800 

This setting of the well-known All Saints Day text 

juxtaposes flowing melodic lines in the sopranos with 

rich homophonic passages, each bringing the text to 

the fore. The organ plays a prominent role, providing 

gentle undulating accompaniment, as well as fanfare-like 

exclamations. 

5 minutes 


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9


O sacrum convivium 


Vocal score 9780193505100 

Composed for the Feast of Corpus Christi, this setting has a 

poise and beauty rare in choral music. Jackson uses the full 

sonic opportunities offered by the divided scoring, moving 

effortlessly from controlled meditation to ecstatic fervour, 

all delivered with absolute belief and clarity. 

6.5 minutes 

O salutaris hostia 


Vocal score 9780193411463 

This reflective and affirmatory communion motet features 

fluid shifts between 3/4 and 4/4 time signatures and 

expressive melodic lines that are often underpinned by a 

drone. 

2.5 minutes 

O thou that art the light 


Vocal score 9780193439191 

This exquisite miniature sets an intimate prayer by St 

Augustine of Hippo asking for God’s grace to know and 

serve Him. Simple and homophonic, it is infused with 

Jackson’s characteristic passion and luminosity. 

3 minutes 

Oculi omnium 


Vocal score 9780193366008 

This anthem sets the Oculi omnium gradual to still, 

reflective music. Including sections of plainchant alongside 

richer textures and close harmonics, it is a beautiful piece 

that will appeal to a range of mixed-voice choirs. 

3 minutes 

Orbis patrator optime 


Vocal score 9780193359383 

A Prayer of King Henry VI 


Vocal score 9780193359048 

This spacious setting of King Henry VI’s prayer ‘Domine 

Jesu Christe’ presents a seamless arch of music with its fluid 

lines and flexible metre. The influence of the great Tudor 

composers is especially evident in the rich, long-breathed 

‘Amen’. 

3 minutes 

Preces and Responses 


Vocal score 9780193355545 

Digital 9780193535763 

This largely syllabic four-part setting harks back to the 

music of the great Tudor masters, while the expressive 

harmony—including a magical key change for the Lord’s 

Prayer and some mellifluous Amens—are pure Jackson. 

7 minutes 

Salus aeterna 


Vocal score 9780193439092 

Salus Aeterna is a bright and mercurial piece that makes full 

use of the delicious fleeting harmonies and close-written 

sonorities of its flowing melodic lines. It sets a Sequence for 

Advent Sunday that looks forward to Christ’s coming and 

subsequent judgement of all things. 

5 minutes 

Salve Regina 


Vocal score 9780193355552 

This is an exquisite piece, simple and homophonic in style, 

and with a luminescent beauty characteristic of many 

of Jackson’s choral works. The piece begins quietly and 

reverently. There is a graceful soprano solo in the central 

section, after which the harmony opens out and richly 

blossoms in ecstatic praise of the Virgin Mary, before 

ending serenely as it began. 

5 minutes 

Tantum ergo 


Vocal score 9780193411470 

This serene communion motet sets the last two verses of 

the Pangue Lingua and oscillates between 3/4 and 4/4 time 

signatures. The melodic lines are expressive and at times 

melismatic, and the divisi in all parts creates a rich texture. 

3.5 minutes 

Thomas, Jewel of Canterbury 


Vocal score 9780193387263 

Setting a fourteenth-century text, this work presents 

evocative solo passages above sustained notes, and rich 

multi-layered canon-like passages in the upper voices. 

8 minutes 

To Morning 


Vocal score 9780193361775 

Digital 9780193524897 

This setting of a poem by William Blake is evocative and 

appealing. Jackson ingeniously offsets simple, pure 

harmonies against moments of chromaticism to create 

beautiful, fresh music which perfectly captures the essence 

of the words. 

2 minutes 

Tota pulchra es 


Vocal score 9780193388321 

Commissioned by the Church of the Immaculate 

Conception, Farm Street, London, this a cappella setting of 

the fourth-century Latin prayer is a hymn of praise to the 

Virgin Mary. 

5.5 minutes 

Two Pentecost Motets 


Vocal score 9780193404854 

This work presents two contrasting yet coherent motets: 

the joyful ‘Confirma hoc Deus’, with its jubilant, melismatic 

motif; and the solemn ‘Factus est’, which features aleatoric 

sequences set against metred music to emphasize a 

reflective manner of worship. 

7 minutes 

Ubi caritas et amor 


Vocal score 9780193417311 

This anthem juxtaposes the words of the Antiphon for 

the Washing of Feet on Maundy Thursday with ‘The red 

rose whispers of passion’ by the poet John Boyle O’Reilly. 

Jackson combines lyrical polyphonic phrases for upper 

and lower voices with atmospheric passages for full choir, 

frequently accompanied by repeated half-whispered text 

in free time. 

6 minutes 

Vidi aquam 

SSATB and organ 

Vocal score 9780193379817 

This attractive and uplifting anthem sets the text of the 

Eastertide Vidi aquam antiphon. Different parts of the 

text are treated to contrasting musical ideas, including 

extended melismatic upper-voice passages and mainly 

homophonic full-choir sections, and the undulating organ 

part represents the flowing water of the text. 

4 minutes 


Setting of a text by St. Robert Bellarmine (1542–1621), 

a Hymn for Lauds on the feast of the Guardian Angels. 

Jackson writes: ‘For the most part, the piece’s structure and 

manner are governed by purely musical considerations, 

though the Angel host of the final line is celebrated by 

the sopranos and altos gradually wending their way 

heavenward.’ 

5 minutes 

10 

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Choral Works Secular 

According to Seneca 


Vocal score 9780193379756 

According to Seneca is a substantial work for 

unaccompanied choir setting a poem of the same name 

by the American poet Gustaf Sobin. Jackson effectively 

intersperses sonorous polyphonic passages for full choir 

with spoken text and murmuring ostinato motifs in free 

time. 

10 minutes 

Airplane Cantata 

SATB and pianola 

Scores and pianola piano roll on hire 9780193382688 

Using texts from a variety of sources (poems, eye witness 

accounts, musings, and factual statements), this unique 

work is a true celebration of the pioneering years of 

aviation. The pianola, with its almost limitless capabilities, 

creates a flurry of multi-textured layers which weave 

around the choral parts to create complex rhythmical 

patterns, typical of Jackson’s compositional style. 

15 minutes 

Cantus Maris Baltici 


Vocal score 9780193377530 

Jackson’s Cantus Maris Baltici (‘Songs of the Baltic Sea’) is 

a rich and imaginative setting of poems from each of the 

three Baltic countries. It displays innovative choral textures 

and is a rewarding work for any advanced choir. It was 

commissioned by the National Youth Choir of Great Britain 

and premiered in California in the summer of 2009. 

10 minutes 


Choral Symphony 

24-part unaccompanied SATB 


A choral celebration of London, written for The BBC 

Singers, Choral Symphony explores all sides of this city, 

from the grandiose architecture and the bustling life 

of Fleet Street, to the darker aspects of today’s poorer 

neighbourhoods. Jackson takes his texts from a wide range 

of poets, from Oscar Wilde to contemporary street rapper, 

George the Poet. 

Exile Meditations 

SATB soloists or choir unaccompanied 

Vocal score 9780193521933 

This powerful work is a sequence of meditations on loss 

and longing, of fear and of hope, by turns contemplative 

and dramatic. The narrative is made up of a selection 

of poems by four exiled Latvian writers from the group 

known as the Hell’s Kitchen Poets and present-day 

displaced persons from Palestine and Syria. The text is in 

Latvian and English, and a pronunciation guide for the 

Latvian text is included in the vocal score. Jackson also 

employs percussion for dramatic effect, with three singers 

required to play brake drum, railway man’s whistle, and 

claves. With all of the trademarks of Jackson’s compelling 

musical style, this piece will be an exciting challenge for 

choirs looking to explore universal themes. 

29 minutes 

In Nomine Domini 

SATB and ensemble 

perc, hp, str quartet 

Vocal and instrumental scores on hire 9780193373556 

This work is a setting of a wonderfully mysterious poem by 

John Bradburne, ‘In Nomine’. The choir is accompanied by 

harp and percussion, apart from one heightened moment 

of ‘ecstasy’ when all forces sing/play together. Interpolated 

in the piece are four ‘In nomines’ for string quartet alone. 

10 minutes 

La musique 

Solo soprano and SATB unaccompanied 

Vocal score 9780193395725 

Ever-changing in mood and pace, La Musique is a setting 

of poems by Elizabeth Bishop and Charles Baudelaire on 

the transformative power of music. Jackson musically 

represents the complex psychological shifts contained in 

the texts’ powerful metaphors through alternating fully 

notated and indeterminate passages in different keys and 

tempi. The resulting effect makes this piece a fascinating 

musical journey to the depths of the human soul. 

10 minutes 

Nightingale Fragments 


Vocal score 9780193512061 

Digital 9780193537804 

The text for this vibrant part-song is a deftly chosen 

selection of lines from Keats’ ‘Ode to a Nightingale’. 

Jackson’s setting features many of the composer’s stylistic 

hallmarks: glissandi, decorative melismas, aleatoric 

patterns, and solo lines that float above the texture. 

10 minutes 

Not no faceless Angel 

SATB, cello, and flute 

Vocal score 9780193365995 

Cello part 9780193412514 

Not no faceless Angel is a beautifully reflective work. The 

work is a sensitive setting of words by Tanya Lake with 

themes of loss and love articulated through expressive 

melodic lines and touching imagery. A recording by 

Polyphony and Stephen Layton is available on Hyperion 

CDA67708. 

9 minutes 

Rigwreck 

SATB (with multiple divisions: 6, 3, 3, 3) 

unaccompanied 

Vocal score 9780193397828 

Rigwreck sets a text by poet Pierre Joris on the 2010 

Deepwater Horizon oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico. Frequent 

vocal divisions into multiple parts, a wide range of 

dynamic expression, spoken lines, and powerful wordpainting 

highlight the poem’s emphasis on humanity’s 

responsibility for the natural world. 

15 minutes 

Ruchill Linn 


Vocal score 9780193379749 

Ruchill Linn sets a text by the Perthshire poet Robin Bell. 

‘Linn’ means waterfall and the poem meditates on a still 

spring evening at dusk. The piece is illustrative, with 

aqueous, tumbling vocal figuration, and plaintive bird 

song. 

9 minutes 

Spring Rounds 

Solo soprano, SATB and orchestra 

picc, fl, ob, c.a., cl, b. cl, bsn, contra bsn, 4hn, 2tpt, tba, perc 

(1 player), str 

Vocal score 9780193418967 



Described by Latvian newspaper Diena as ‘the most 

carefully developed orchestral party’, Spring Rounds is 

a significant work that is rich in variety and orchestral 

colours. Jackson has selected texts by a multiplicity of 

authors, from the seventeenth-century poet Thomas Carew 

to contemporary writer Billy Collins, to create a profound 

and interesting reflection on the titular season. 

30 minutes 

Three Shakespeare Songs 


Vocal score 9780193413474 

This setting of texts from Cymbeline, The Merchant of Venice, 

and Sonnet 98, is characterized by inventive textures and 

vibrant word-setting. The harmonic language is for the 

most part diatonic, but never plain, and there are some 

pungent dissonances, as the contrasts between and within 

the texts are laid bare in music of evocative power. 

8 minutes 

The World Imagined 

Solo tenor, SATB (with divisions), and orchestra 

picc. 2fl, 2ob, c.a., 2cl, bass cl, 2bsn, contrabsn, 4hn, 3tpt, 2tbn, 

bass tbn, tba, perc(3 players), hp, str 

Vocal score 9780193540200 


The World Imagined explores themes around the smallness 

of man, the apprehension of the divine in everything 

around us, and our ecstatic communion within that 

vastness. The powerfully evocative texts invite deep 

spiritual contemplation, and are drawn from diverse 

sources ranging from an early Latin hymn by St Ambrose to 

contemporary poems by Doris Kareva and Kenneth White. 

NB: This work can be performed in a secular or sacred 

context. Movement 4 contains some short Latin text of St 

Ambrose. 

43 minutes 


24 minutes 

12 

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Choral Leaflets/Octavos Secular 


Am Abend 


Vocal score 9780193408258 

Am Abend is a setting of ‘Grodek’, which is thought to be 

the last work of the Austrian poet Georg Trakl. Written in 

1913, the year before Trakl committed suicide at the age of 

27, the poem is set in the town of Grodek on the Eastern 

Front, where he had served as a medical officer. Jackson’s 

setting is agonizingly moving, opening with an eerie alto 

melody before the rest of the choir enter with haunting 

harmonies and cluster chords, reflecting the darkness of 

the text. Grace notes and glissandi add an Eastern flavour 

and evoke the ‘wild lament’ and ‘dark flutes’ of Trakl’s poem. 

7 minutes 

How do I love thee? 


Vocal score 9780193529083 

Digital 9780193531680 

This is an appealing setting of the popular Elizabeth Barrett 

Browning poem ‘How do I love thee?’. Bearing all the 

usual hallmarks of Jackson’s style, this piece is a welcome 

addition to the musical repertoire for weddings. 

3.5 minutes 

I am the voice of the wind 


Vocal score 9780193378490 

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. 

5 minutes 

in the half-light of dusk 


Vocal score 9780193393066 

In this unaccompanied setting of Thomas A. Clark’s poem, 

Jackson beautifully conjures up the atmosphere of the 

onset of nightfall. Featuring a wide range of rhythms, 

textures, and dynamics, this is a striking and complex 

piece, with highly imaginative word setting. 

7 minutes 

Lux Mortuorum 


Vocal score 9780193355521 

This piece stems from an ongoing partnership between 

the composer and the writer Richard George Elliott. 

The profound sentiments expressed in Elliott’s poem 

about the firmament are evoked by Jackson’s use of 

colourful, shimmering textures and an underlying sense of 

spaciousness. An impressive concert work, this is complex 

but utterly compelling choral writing. 

7 minutes 

Our flags are wafting in hope and 

grief 


Vocal score 9780193403284 

Set to words by the Estonian poet Doris Kareva, Our flags 

are wafting in hope and grief is a humanist anthem to the 

power of conviction and community in times of social 

turmoil. 

5 minutes 

A ship with unfurled sails 


Vocal score 9780193369245 

This atmospheric piece sets a haunting secular text by 

Doris Kareva. In style, it is contemplative with a clear, 

expansive melody, and Jackson skilfully conjures up a 

sense of the undulations of a ship at sea through the lilting 

lines of the accompanying voices. 

6 minutes 

Song (I gaze upon you) 


Vocal score 9780193360488 

Digital 9780193524873 

Ideal for concerts, and special occasions such as weddings 

and anniversaries, this choral song sets a beautiful text 

by Paul Eluard to rich, sumptuous music. It is also in the 

anthology Weddings for Choirs. 

3.5 minutes 

To Music 


Vocal score 9780193366015 

To Music is a jubilant anthem set to a poem by Robert 

Herrick (‘To Music - A Song’). Commissioned by the BBC 

to mark Stephen Cleobury’s 60th birthday celebrations in 

2009, the work perfectly captures the exultant mood of the 

text, extolling the virtues of music. 

3 minutes 

The Voice of the Bard 


Vocal score 9780193361690 

Using as its basis William Blake’s eponymous poem from 

Songs of Innocence and Experience, this work is largely 

celebratory in tone and employs a range of techniques 

and textures as a means of expression including glissandi, 

flowing melismatic passages, and exuberant homophonic 

sections. 

6 minutes 

Winter heavens 


Vocal score 9780193382671 

This work sets a poem by George Meredith. The poem, 

‘Winter heavens’, begins as a winter landscape, before 

becoming richer, stranger and more metaphysical. This 

structure is enhanced beautifully in the music, which 

begins as purely illustrative, and gradually becomes more 

ecstatic as ‘the radiance enrings’. 

6 minutes 

Yes, I am your angel 


Vocal score 9780193415706 

Digital 9780193537101 

The text for this imaginative and effective piece by Gabriel 

Jackson is a response to Allen Ginsberg’s A Supermarket in 

California by Latvian poet Kārlis Vērdiņš, translated here by 

Ieva Lešinska. As in Ginsberg’s poem, the initial setting is a 

supermarket, depicted with vivid imagery such as ‘a weary, 

shrivelled apple’, before the angel protagonist expounds on 

their observations about contemporary society. Pleasingly 

alliterative lines such as ‘he’d babble boozily about tanks’ 

are artfully given rhythmic emphasis by Jackson, who fully 

exploits the dramatic intent of the poem, giving space for 

the text to come through by homophonic setting, a pure 

harmonic language, and often sparse textures. 


4 minutes 

14 

15

Choral Leaflets/Octavos Christmas 


Ane Sang of the Birth of Christ 


Vocal score 9780193439061 

Inspired by a 16th-century Scots text, Jackson has 

composed a memorable carol full of character and beauty. 

The choir is serenaded throughout by the organ, which 

imitates the haunting qualities of the bagpipes—full of 

ornamentation and extemporized flourishes. In contrast, 

the vocal lines are written with daring purity of the kind 

found in the earliest forms of melody. 

5 minutes 

The Christ-child 


Vocal score 9780193369368 

Commissioned by King’s College, Cambridge for the 2009 

Festival of Nine Lessons and Carols, this beautiful carol sets 

a well-loved text by G. K. Chesterton. Jackson’s trademark 

luscious harmonies sit alongside gentle changes in metre 

and mode. 

3.5 minutes 

Christmas Eve 


Vocal score 9780193514386 

In this atmospheric piece Gabriel Jackson sets a text by the 

Victorian poet Christina Rossetti. The first stanza is sung by 

sopranos only, with expressive chromatic lines evoking the 

‘darkness’ and ‘chillness’ referred to in the text. The music 

flowers into four parts for the contrasting second stanza, 

with rich harmonies and flowing melismas creating a 

sumptuous texture. 

4 minutes 

Creator of the stars of night 


Vocal score 9780193439078 

This mellifluous Advent setting opens in a still and 

contemplative mood reminiscent of plainsong before a 

thrilling section heralded by the first entry of the organ. 

The piece finishes as it began—a perfect Advent blend of 

meditation and drama. 

4 minutes 

Hush! my dear 

SATB accompanied or unaccompanied 

Vocal score 9780193382053 

Digital 9780193531185 

Offprinted from Carols for Choirs 5, this exquisite setting 

of a familiar text by Isaac Watts has flexible scoring, with 

choirs encouraged to explore different options for each of 

the four verses. The music is gentle, flowing, and peaceful, 

perfectly reflecting the nativity scene the poet so vividly 

depicts. 

3 minutes 

I look from afar 


Vocal score 9780193439757 

Offprinted from Advent for Choirs, this setting of the Matin 

Responsory is full of drama and varied choral textures, from 

its declamatory opening in G minor until its unexpected 

but thrilling conclusion in B major. 

3 minutes 

I sing the birth was born tonight 


Vocal score 9780193519039 

Digital 9780193537835 

Commissioned by The Maryland State Boychoir in 2017, 

this striking Christmas piece sets a famous text by Ben 

Jonson. Jackson’s attractive and largely diatonic harmonies 

combine with vivid word-setting, deft manipulations of 

texture, and a colourful organ part to create a mood of 

gentle rapture, with a central section that explores more 

conflicted atmospheres. 

4 minutes 

Nowell sing we 


Vocal score 9780193359529 

This is a vibrant and rhythmic Christmas carol based on 

an anonymous fifteenth-century text. The modal feel and 

lively rhythms lend this carol a medieval character. 

2 minutes 

O Clavis David 


Vocal score 9780193388345 

Bright, electric, and charged with energy, this setting of 

one of the seven Advent ‘O’ Antiphons features Jackson’s 

characteristic flourishes of melodic ornamentation, 

tempered by moments of calm from the sustained lower 

voices and softly spoken phrases in the upper voices. 

3 minutes 

O Virgo Virginum 

Solo tenor and SSATB unaccompanied 

Vocal score 9780193523760 

Digital 9780193531239 

Following on from the publication of Jackson’s settings 

of the seven ‘O’ antiphons under the title Seven Advent 

Antiphons, O Virgo virginum is a setting of the Latin text 

recognised as the eighth ‘O’ antiphon and performed as 

such in many Christian traditions. Jackson’s imaginative 

setting features a melismatic line for tenor soloist and 

aleatoric writing. 

3.5 minutes 

Thou whose birth 

Unison upper voices and organ 

Vocal score 9780193359895 

This is a demanding piece with much ornamentation in 

the vocal part. The work is slow in tempo and the text is by 

Algernon Charles Swinburne. 

3 minutes 

Tomorrow go ye forth 


Vocal score 9780193439764 

This setting of the Vesper Responsory exudes a confident 

radiance and sure belief that the ‘Lord he shall be with you’. 

First published in Advent for Choirs, this setting is both 

approachable and gripping. 

2 minutes 

Vox clara ecce intonat 

SATB and soprano saxophone 

Score 9780193407633 

Setting the original Latin text of the hymn better known 

as ‘Hark! a thrilling voice is sounding’, Jackson creates an 

Advent piece of beautiful stillness. The largely homophonic 

choral parts, with a soloist supplying a gentle contrapuntal 

line, are contrasted with light and graceful interjections 

from the saxophone. The result is a quietly moving piece 

ideally suited for a reflective moment during an Advent 

service. 


4 minutes 

16 

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Orchestral & Ensemble 

Aquarius with Quartz and Copper 

Trumpet and organ 

Score and trumpet part 9780193373662 

This is a joyful work for organ and trumpet. Jackson 

employs a sectional structure, contrasting celebratory 

writing with moments of intimacy and reflection. 

7 minutes 

Clarinet Quintet: In Prairial and 

Thermidor 

Clarinet and string quartet 

Score and parts 9780193356818 

This beautiful chamber work takes its inspiration from 

an artist’s book by the Scottish artist Ian Hamilton Finlay, 

A Litany A Requiem. This book lists on alternate red, 

white, and blue paper plants from the month of Prairial 

(May–June in the French Revolutionary Calendar), set 

against a list of revolutionaries guillotined in the month of 

Thermidor (July–August). The work is in two movements: ‘A 

Litany for Prairial’, which is fast, lively, and mostly pastoral; 

and ‘A Requiem for Thermidor’, which is slow, and funereal. 

19 minutes 

The Coral Sea 

Soprano saxophone and piano 

Score and soprano saxophone part 9780193398450 

The Coral Sea takes its title and structure from the poem of 

the same name written by Patti Smith as a memorial to the 

photographer Robert Mapplethorpe, who died in 1989. 

17 minutes 

Doonies Hill Antiphon 

String orchestra or ensemble 

Ensemble: 3 vln, vla, 2 vc, db 

Score and parts on hire - orchestra 9780193404052 

Score and parts on hire - ensemble 9780193373112 

Doonies Hill Antiphon draws its inspiration from three of the 

composer’s interests: the poetry and potency of names, the 

mystery and magic of aviation, and the ornate, mellifluous 

music of the early Tudor period. 

12 minutes 

Orchestral & Ensemble 

LM-7: Aquarius 

Saxophone quartet 


LM-7: Aquarius was the seventh lunar module that NASA 

sent into space, on the Apollo 13 mission. The piece is in 

eleven continuous sections, the proportions of which are 

derived from the ten letters and the number of the title. It 

is a show-off display piece with spotlit solos for each player. 

7 minutes 

Piano Concerto 

Solo piano and chamber orchestra 


Scored for a Mozartian-sized orchestra, this Piano Concerto 

is lyrical and playful in style. Jackson explores the dialogue 

between soloist and orchestra, creating duos, trios, and 

mini-ensembles. The concerto is in three movements— 

fast/slow/fast—which get progressively shorter. 

15 minutes 

Rhapsody in Red 

Two pianos 

Score 9780193356849 

Rhapsody in Red is based on a ‘textwork’ by the British 

artist Richard Long, Red Walk Bristol to Dawlish, which 

lists objects seen on a walk from Bristol to Dawlish and 

the distances along the walk that they were seen at. The 

music, which is characterized by repetitive figurations, has 

a mesmerising, ecstatic quality. 

17 minutes 

Rhythm and Blues 

Saxophone quartet 


Rhythm and Blues is in two movements: the first is mainly 

fast and rhythmic, with featured solos for the baritone, 

soprano, and alto saxophone; and the second, which 

begins with an unaccompanied monody for the tenor, is 

largely slow and melancholy. 

14 minutes 

String Quartet No. 3 

String quartet 


This lively piece draws on complex rhythms and dance 

elements and combines them with lyrical passages 

reminiscent of the haunting melodies of the Welsh folk 

tradition. The use of harmonics, open strings and unison 

playing reiterate the techniques and unique sound world 

inhabited by folk music. 

This Paradise I Give Thee 

Baritone and thirteen players 

picc, cor ang, cl (Eb), 2 bcl, dbn, tpt (C), euph, 2 vn, va db, 

baritone solo 


Jackson artfully uses the instruments to embody figures 

from the animal kingdom: the trumpet representing 

the blue marlin and a pair of bass clarinets the giraffe, 

for example. A declamatory part for baritone presents 

words by Darwin and Milton and the work culminates in a 

clanging paean of celebration as all participants unite. 

Solo Voice & Instrumental 

Adonis Images 

Soprano and piano 

Vocal score 9780193393134 

With specially written poems by Karlis Verdins based on 

the Adonis chapters from Frazer’s The Golden Bough, each 

song in this little cycle explores a single Affekt. 

8 minutes 

Angelorum 

Solo piano 

Score 9780193356825 

This short, evocative piece is built of block chords, simple 

diatonic melodies, and pedal notes in the left hand. It is 

recorded by Thalia Myers on USK 1221CD. 

8 minutes 

Comeragh Litanies 

Solo organ 

Score 9780193356771 

Written whilst the composer was living in Comeragh 

Road, the litanies of the title are sixteen discrete sections 

of music, varying in length from two seconds to a minute. 

Each of these blocks has a different texture, musical 

character and registration from its predecessor and 

the structure of the piece is articulated by a pattern of 

contrasts, repetitions, and allusions. 

10 minutes 

Eurydice 

Solo clarinet 

Score 9780193356801 

Eurydice is based on a work by the great Scottish artist Ian 

Hamilton Finlay: a series of six large stones installed in a 

garden in Provence, set in a sea of lavender (representing 

water) and inscribed with a simple poetic text, each line of 

which begins with ‘Eurydice’ and is followed by a natural 

phenomenon, e.g. ‘the mountain-tops’, ‘the oaks’ etc. The 

piece is in eleven sections. Each section begins with a 

refrain—‘Eurydice’ —followed by differently characterized 

music for ‘the woods’, ‘the clouds’ etc. 

9 minutes 

Herzliebster Jesu, was hast du 

verbrochen 

Organ 

Score 780193392953 

The Orgelbuchlein Project is a long running project to 

complete Bach’s unfinished collection of organ music. Bach 

inscribed the title of 164 Chorales in his manuscript, but 

only composed 46 of them. This short chorale setting for 

solo organ is Jackson’s contribution to the completion of 

the set. 

2 minutes 

Piano Sonata 

Solo piano 

Score 9780193359970 

Utilizing the standard three movement sonata outline, 

Jackson employs a variety of textures to great effect in 

this piece. In the first movement alone, the music employs 

homophonic, unison, canonic, and monophonic textures. 

The work is technically demanding and moves through a 

variety of moods and tempos. 

15 minutes 

St Asaph Toccata 

Solo organ 

Score 9780193356788 

Digital 9780193544574 

St Asaph Toccata was commissioned by Symphony Hall, 

Birmingham, as part of the Bach to the Future Series. 

The composer writes: ‘The original title for the piece 

was Toccata Machine as I had an image of the gigantic 

Symphony Hall organ as some kind of mad machine 

uncontrollably spewing out manic toccata figuration. 

Except for a short oasis of calm two-thirds of the way 

through, the piece is very loud and has millions of notes 

in it. The eventual title refers to the street in South London 

where I live, rather than the Welsh Saint Asaph’. 

Solo Voice & Instrumental 

5 minutes 

8 minutes 

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