BBC Singers – Gabriel Jackson 60th Birthday Concert
The BBC Singers celebrate the 60th birthday of their former Composer in Association, in a programme curated by Gabriel Jackson. The programme celebrates some of Jackson’s iconic pieces for choir alongside works that have inspired him from the beginnings of his musical career as a chorister in Canterbury Cathedral Choir to the present day.
Programme
Gabriel Jackson
Yes, I am your angel
Santa Ratniece
After the wind (6 mins)
Gabriel Jackson
Nightingale Fragments (10 mins)
Igor Stravinsky
Tres Sacrae Cantiones (10 mins)
Gabriel Jackson
In the half-light of dusk (10 mins)
INTERVAL
Gabriel Jackson
Blumbergs in Venice (7 mins)
Helena Tulve
I am a river (14 mins)
Gabriel Jackson
Luce coruscas (herself a rose) (10 mins)
Thomas Tallis
Videte miraculum (10 mins)
Performers
BBC Singers
Sofi Jeannin
conductor