Jackson, G: Sacred Choral Works.

JACKSON, G: Sacred Choral Works Edinburgh Mass; O Sacrum Convivium; Creator of the Stars of Night; Ane Sang of the Birth of Christ; A Prayer of King Henry VI; Preces & Responses; Psalm 112; Truro Magnificat & Nunc Dimittis; Salve Regina; St Asaph Toccata St Mary's Cathedral Choir, Edinburgh/ Matthew Owens--Delphian 34027--70 minutes

Gabriel Jackson (b 1962), a native of Bermuda, was a chorister at Canterbury Cathedral for three years, and this is described in the program notes as his "most formative musical experience". His later studies in composition at the Royal College of Music "gave him a flexible technique and immersed him in the mainstream of European modernist composition". More recently, he has looked to John Tavener and Henryk Gorecki as aesthetic exemplars, developing an idiom that "is not about conflict and resolution, that even when animated remains essentially contemplative". Much of the music on this program derives from his four-year association with the choir of St Mary's (Scottish Episcopal) Cathedral, Edinburgh. The earliest work here, substantially pre-dating his association with the cathedral, is 'O Sacrum Convivium' (1990), and the latest is the setting for solo soprano and organ of Psalm ...