Cover: The Mysterious Portal by Arild Rosenkrantz (1870-1964)
Hyperion CDA67708 · June 2009
Jackson - Not no faceless Angel & other choral works
Polyphony, Stephen Layton (conductor)
- BBC MUSIC MAGAZINE CHORAL DISC OF THE MONTH
- DAILY TELEGRAPH SELECTED CD OF THE WEEK
Press
BBC Music Magazine2009Performance Recording Choral pieces which react in very specific ways to verbal and semantic nuance so easily make a bitty and episodic impression. That's emphatically not the case, though, with Gabriel Jackson's 'Not no faceless…Read the review 
The Observer2009Stephen Layton's apparently ceaseless offerings for Hyperion continue with this disc of contemplative pieces by today's sucessor to Herbert Howells, Gabriel Jackson, a composer who manages to refer reverentially to music from the…Read the review 
ClassicsToday.com2009Don't be surprised if you have to stop and repeat the first two tracks of this musically compelling, beautifully sung program of works--most of them written during the past 10 years--by British composer Gabriel Jackson. To…Read the review 
bbc.co.uk2009Gabriel Jackson seems ubiquitous at the moment. Last year his magnificent 40-part motet, Sanctum est verum lunem received its world premiere recording as the title track of the National Youth Choir of Great Britain’s 25th…Read the review 
MusicalCriticism.com2009Stephen Layton and his choir Polyphony have been performing and recording new choral works for several years now and this latest album of music by Gabriel Jackson can be seen as another installment in an inspired series which has…Read the review 
The Daily Telegraph2009Gabriel Jackson is one of the growing number of composers riding the trend for ecstatic “spiritual” music. His long “Eastern” drones are straight out of John Tavener, the radiant harmonies are like Górecki’s famous Symphony of…Read the review 
Audiophile Audition2009Gabriel Jackson is a Bermuda-born Englander who descends from an Anglican clergyman and has himself an intense devotion to that confession, though he describes it as unconventional. But his interests do seem pegged to liturgical…Read the review 
Gramophone Magazine2009Contemporary choral works of a special beauty and appealRead the review
Recorded: January 2008
Produced by Adrian Peacock
Engineered by David Hinitt
Release date: June 2009
Total duration: 75 minutes 31 seconds
Track list
- To Morning O holy virgin! clad in purest whiteGabriel Jackson (b1962)2'26
- Song 'I gaze upon you' I gaze upon you and the sun grows largeGabriel Jackson (b1962)3'46
- Cecilia VirgoGabriel Jackson (b1962)7'50
- Orbis patrator optimeGabriel Jackson (b1962)6'52
- Ave MariaGabriel Jackson (b1962)7'19
- Hymn to the Trinity Honor, virtus et potestasGabriel Jackson (b1962)5'38
- Not no faceless Angel Another photograph to put on a shelfGabriel Jackson (b1962)10'07
- O sacrum conviviumGabriel Jackson (b1962)6'24
- Lux mortuorum Crystal points tug on million year filamentsGabriel Jackson (b1962)7'36
- Salve reginaGabriel Jackson (b1962)5'15
- Salve regina 2Gabriel Jackson (b1962)12'18
Recording details from Hyperion Records.