Choral Works Sacred Requiem SATB (with divisions) unaccompanied Vocal score 9780193364875 Vocal score on hire 9780193376793 Combining sections of the traditional Requiem text with poems from other cultures and traditions, <strong>Jackson</strong> 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, <strong>Jackson</strong> 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 Vocal scores on hire 9780193355996 Sanctum est verum lumen was written as a companion piece to Spem in alium to celebrate the Tallis quincentenary. <strong>Jackson</strong> 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 SATB unaccompanied 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, <strong>Jackson</strong> 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, <strong>Jackson</strong> explores the use of vivid imagery the poem provides through this dramatic medium. In his celebrated style, <strong>Jackson</strong> 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, <strong>Jackson</strong>’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, <strong>Jackson</strong>’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 Conductor’s score and parts on hire 9780193543652 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 SATB unaccompanied 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 SATB (with divisions) unaccompanied 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. <strong>Jackson</strong> alternates a refrain in a simple plainsong style with more passionate, homophonic verses, to powerful effect. 3 minutes All shall be Amen SATB unaccompanied Vocal score 9780193415690 This powerful motet sets a reflective text by Augustine of Hippo. Connoisseurs of <strong>Jackson</strong>’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 Choral Leaflets/Octavos Sacred 16 minutes 4 5