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Thou art the King of Glory, O Christ. ⁄ Jubilate Thou art the everlasting Son of the Father. When thou tookest upon thee to deliver man, 1. O be joyful in the Lord, all ye lands: thou didst not abhor the Virgin’s womb. 2. serve the Lord with gladness, and come before his When thou hadst overcome the sharpness of death, presence with a song. thou didst open the kingdom of heaven to all believers. 3. Be ye sure that the Lord he is God; it is he that hath Thou sittest at the hand of God made us, and not we ourselves; we are his people, and in glory to be our judge. the sheep of his pasture. Nicholas We therefore pray thee, help thy servants, 4. O go your way into his gates with thanksgiving, and whom thou hast redeemed with thy into his courts with praise; be thankful unto him, and precious blood. speak good of his Name. JACKSON Make them numbered with thy saints in glory everlasting 5. For the Lord is gracious, his mercy is everlasting; O Lord save thy people and his truth endureth from generation to generation. and bless thine heritage Govern them and lift them up for ever Day by day we magnify thee; Choral Works and worship thy name, ever world without end. Vouchsafe, O Lord to keep us this day without sin. O Lord, have mercy upon us, have mercy upon us. O Lord, let thy mercy lighten upon us, as our trust is Mass for a in thee. O Lord in thee have I trusted let me not be confounded. Saint’s Day Requiem

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Nicholas Jackson (b. 1934) He hath filled the hungry with good things ¶ Salve Regina Choral Works and the rich he hath sent empty away. He remembering his mercy hath holpen his servant Israel Salve, Regina, Mater misericordiae, Nicholas Jackson was born Queen Elizabeth Hall and elsewhere. In 1971 he was as he promised to our forefathers, Abraham and vita, dulcedo, et spes nostra, salve. in London in 1934 and has appointed organist at St James’s Piccadilly and then at his seed for ever. Ad te clamamus, exsules filii Hevae, pursued a career as an St Lawrence Jewry-next-Guildhall in London, before ad te suspiramus, gementes et flentes organist, harpsichordist becoming Organist and Master of the Choristers at St ∞ Nunc Dimittis in hac lacrimarum valle. and composer. Until he David’s Cathedral in Wales. Eia, ergo, advocata nostra, illos tuos was seventeen, however, it As an organ recitalist he has regularly toured the Lord, now lettest thou thy servant depart in peace: misericordes oculos ad nos converte; was assumed that he would United States, France, Germany, Spain and Croatia, and according to thy word. et Jesum, benedictum fructum ventris tui, follow in the footsteps of played at Notre Dame, Paris, the Royal Festival Hall, For mine eyes have seen: thy salvation, nobis post hoc exilium ostende. his grandfather Sir T.G. St Paul’s Cathedral, and at the Teatro Real, Madrid. He Which thou hast prepared: before the face of all people; O clemens, O pia, O dulcis Virgo Maria. Jackson Bt, the architect has also frequently toured Spain, giving trumpet and To be a light to lighten the Gentiles: and to be the glory and water-colourist who organ recitals with Maurice Murphy and Crispian of thy people Israel. • Magnificat in the Lydian mode designed many famous Steele-Perkins, and as harpsichordist with the London Oxford landmarks such as Virtuosi (soloists of the London Symphony Orchestra). § I will give thanks See track ¢ the ‘Bridge of Sighs’ and the Examination Schools. He also directed a Bach Festival at the Monastery of (Psalm 111) Accordingly he was taken abroad on sketching tours to Santes Creus in Catalunia. He has recorded over twenty ª Nunc Dimittis in the Lydian mode study architecture, and while a boy at Radley won a LPs and eight CDs, including a further CD of his own 1. I will give thanks unto the Lord with my whole heart: competition with a design for a theatre. On leaving organ works recorded in Paris. secretly among the faithful, and in the congregation. See track ∞ school, however, he switched to music. After becoming Nicholas Jackson is Director of Concertante of 2. The works of the Lord are great: sought out of all of Organ Scholar at Wadham College, Oxford, and London, a baroque ensemble including the cream of them that have pleasure therein. º Te Deum studying with Edmund Rubbra, he went to the Royal young London-based musicians playing authentic 3. His work is worthy to be praised and had in honour: Academy of Music, becoming an organ pupil of C.H. instruments, that performs frequently at The Banqueting and his righteousness endureth for ever. We praise thee, O God Trevor, a harpsichord pupil of George Malcolm and a House, Whitehall, and has made a recording of Nicholas 4. The merciful and gracious Lord hath so done his we acknowledge thee to be the Lord composition student of John Gardner. He then Jackson’s new realisation of Bach’s A Musical Offering. marvellous works: that they ought to be had in All the earth doth worship thee completed his organ and harpsichord studies in For Unicorn Press he has edited a publication of his remembrance. the Father everlasting. Amsterdam with Gustav Leonhardt. grandfather’s Recollections, and has given lectures 5. He hath given meat unto them that fear him: he shall To thee all the angels cry aloud Nicholas Jackson’s compositions are written in a about him not only in England but also in Croatia and in ever be mindful of his covenant. the heavens and all the powers therein. modern-romantic idiom admitting to the influences of Venice. He served as Master of the Drapers’ Company 6. He hath shewed his people the power of his works: To thee cherubin and seraphim do continually cry Duruflé, Langlais and Messiaen. Besides the choral (1994-95) and is an Honorary Fellow of Hertford that he may give them the heritage of the heathen. Holy, Holy, Holy, music included here, his compositions include a College, Oxford. 7. The works of his hands are verity and judgement: all Lord God of Sabaoth; heaven and earth quantity of organ works, which he recorded at Chartres Behold a Great Priest was written for the Reception his commandments are true. are full of the majesty of thy glory. for Naxos in 2000 together with works for trumpet and of a Bishop at St David’s Cathedral in 1980. 8. They stand fast for ever and ever: and are done in The glorious company of the apostles praise thee. organ played by Maurice Murphy (Naxos 8.554773). He Mass for a Saint’s Day, his first choral work, was truth and equity. The goodly fellowship of the prophets praise thee. has also written a Brass Quintet, some piano music, and recorded for Decca by the Choir of Winchester 9. He sent redemption unto his people: he hath The noble army of martyrs praise thee. an opera The Reluctant Highwayman, that was produced Cathedral in 1970 and was so successful that its commanded his covenant for ever; holy and reverend is The Holy Church by Broomhill Opera in 1996. publication by Boosey and Hawkes in 1966 ran into his Name. throughout all the world doth Nicholas Jackson made his début at the Wigmore three editions. In the Kyrie a simple rising motif is used, 10. The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom: a acknowledge thee; Hall as a harpsichordist playing four Bach concertos which in the final section enters at close range and at good understanding have all they that do thereafter; the The Father of an infinite majesty; with his own Chamber Orchestra that he subsequently different pitches. In the Credo, supported by a brilliant praise of it endureth for ever. thine honourable true and only Son; recorded for RCA, and gave frequent concerts at the organ part, the voices enter with a forceful unison Also the Holy Ghost the comforter.

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He has spoken through the Prophets. ) Libera me Domine theme. Two contrasting sections follow; the first with a concludes with a climatic Carillon based on the theme We believe in one holy catholic and apostolic Church. striking xylophone-like accompaniment. Then a section of the Kyries. Nicholas Jackson also arranged part of We acknowledge one baptism for the forgiveness of sins. Libera me Domine de morte aeterna in die illa tremenda dealing with the resurrection builds to a climax at the Missa cum Jubilo as an Organ Mass, which he We look for the resurrection of the dead, quando coeli movendi sunt et terra. Dum veneris words ‘whose kingdom shall have no end’. From then on dedicated to Jean Langlais and performed at St Clotilde and the life of the world to come. Amen. iudicare saeculum per ignem. Tremens factus sum ego until the Amen the music substantially repeats the in Paris and also at the Royal Festival Hall in 1984. He et timeo dum discussio venerit atque ventura per ignem. opening section. Simple canonic devices are employed later recorded it for Naxos at Chartres Cathedral (Naxos % Pie Jesu Dies irae, dies illa calamitatis et miseriae, dies magna et in the Sanctus, Benedictus and Agnus Dei. As in the 8.554773). amara valde. Requiem aeternam dona eis Domine et lux Credo in the Gloria an exciting organ part (quasi una Nicholas Jackson’s Magnificat and Nunc Dimittis Pie Jesu Domine, dona eis requiem sempiternam. perpetua luceat eis. toccata) makes a vital contribution to the impact of this was commissioned by Canterbury Cathedral in 1975. colourful movement. Sections in which the choir sing powerfully above the ^ Sanctus ™ In Paradisum Mass for a Saint’s Day remains in the repertoire of right hand part of the organ rapidly playing a note row, many church choirs in the United States and Anglican are contrasted with more tender passages. Slow chime- Holy, holy, holy Lord God of Hosts. Heaven and earth In Paradisum in tuo adventu suscipiant te Martyres. Et churches all over the English-speaking world. On like chords accompany the vocal writing of the Nunc are full of Thy glory. perducant te in civitatem sanctam Jerusalem. Chorus Christmas Day 2006 it was given a live television Dimittis. Hosanna in the highest. angelorum te suscipiant et cum Lazaro quondam broadcast from Christchurch, New Zealand. The Rood was composed at St David’s in 1982 and paupere aeternam habeas requiem. Elevation and Toccata, which act as preludes and is a setting of words by Mary Denyer that were inspired & Benedictus postludes to the Mass are from a suite called Four by the wooden cross that hung above the organ case. £ The Rood Images. Nicholas Jackson played them in a recital in I will give thanks is a festive setting of Psalm 111 Blessed is he that comes in the name of the Lord. Words by Mary Denyer 1972 at Notre Dame in Paris, where he met the French and was commissioned by the 2nd Congregational Hosanna in the highest. girl who was later to become his wife. Church, Greenwich in the United States for their 250th We regret that we are unable to reproduce the text for Tantum ergo is an arrangement of a plainsong hymn anniversary in 1976. * Pater noster this work. and was composed in 2005. Salve Regina is scored for SSAA and organ and was Requiem is an enlargement of the composer’s Missa composed following a visit to hear the boys’ choir of the Our Father in heaven, hallowed be thy name. Your ¢ Magnificat cum Jubilo, which had been composed when the Church Monastery at Montserrat in Catalunia in 1983. kingdom come, your will be done on earth as in heaven. of England updated the Liturgy in 1976. It has Magnificat and Nunc Dimittis (for soprano & organ Give us today our daily bread. Forgive us our sins, as My soul doth magnify the Lord frequently been sung at Canterbury Cathedral. The in the Lydian mode) was broadcast by BBC Wales from we forgive those who sin against us. Lead us not into and my spirit hath rejoiced in God my Saviour. Introit, Pie Jesu, Libera me, and In Paradisum were St David’s Cathedral in 1981. temptation, but deliver us from evil. For the kingdom, For he hath regarded added in 2006. Much of the work incorporates plainsong Te Deum and Jubilate was commissioned by the the power and the glory are yours, now and for ever. the lowliness of his handmaiden. themes, as are heard in the works of Duruflé. The Welsh Arts Council and first performed at the 1984 St Amen. For behold, from henceforth writing is more dense and contrapuntal than in Mass for David’s Cathedral Festival. all generations shall call me blessed. a Saint’s Day, although here again the organ makes an ( Agnus Dei For he that is mighty hath magnified me important contribution throughout and the Requiem Nicholas Jackson and holy is his Name. O Lamb of God, that takest away the sins of the world, And his mercy is on them that fear him have mercy upon us. throughout all generations. O Lamb of God, that takest away the sins of the world, He hath shewed strength with his arm have mercy upon us. he hath scattered the proud in the imagination of O Lamb of God, that takest away the sins of the world, their hearts. grant us Thy peace. He hath put down the mighty from their seat and hath exalted the humble and meek.

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Laura Oldfield prayer. Thou that sittest at the right hand of God the for your glory. Lord Jesus Christ, only Son of the Father, have mercy upon us. Father. Lord God, Lamb of God, you take away the sins Laura Oldfield was a music scholar at Emanuel School, London, and attended the Royal of the world, have mercy on us. You are seated at the College of Music Junior Department as a violinist. In June 2006 she graduated in music from For thou only art holy; thou only art the Lord; thou right hand of the Father, receive our prayer. For you Pembroke College, Cambridge. Throughout her three years at Cambridge she sang in Trinity only, O Christ, with the Holy Ghost, art most high in alone are the Holy One. You alone are the Lord. You College Chapel Choir under Richard Marlow. She has much experience as an oratorio the glory of God the Father. Amen. alone are the most High Jesus Christ with the Holy soloist, with engagements including Beethoven’s Mass in C, Bach’s Mass in B minor and Spirit in the glory of God the Father. Amen. Monteverdi’s Vespers. She has performed Handel’s Dixit Dominus and Stravinsky’s Mass 0 Tantum ergo with the Southbank Sinfonia in St John’s, Waterloo, and Bach’s St John Passion under St Thomas Aquinas (1227-74) $ Credo David Hill in Trinity College Chapel, Cambridge. As an opera soloist she has taken the rôle Translation by J.M. Neale of Barbarina in The Marriage of Figaro. Laura Oldfield is much in demand as a choral We believe in one God, singer, regularly performing with professional ensembles including Polyphony, The Sixteen, Therefore, we before him bending, the Father Almighty, The Choir of the Enlightenment, and Tenebrae. She is co-founder of the Dmitri Ensemble This great Sacrament revere; maker of heaven and earth, and Assistant Director of Music at the secondary school Eltham College. Types and shadows have their ending, of all that is, seen and unseen. For the newer rite is here; Faith, our outward sense befriending, We believe in one Lord, Jesus Christ, Makes our inward vision clear. the only Son of God, Jeremy Filsell eternally begotten of the Father, Glory let us give, and blessing God from God, Light from Light, Jeremy Filsell enjoys a concert career as both a pianist and organist, appearing as a To the Father, and the Son; true God from true God, soloist throughout Europe, Russia and the United States. His concerto repertoire Honour, might, and praise addressing, begotten, not made, ranges from Mozart and Beethoven to Rachmaninov, Shostakovich, and John While eternal ages run; one in Being with the Father. Ireland, and he has recorded the solo piano music of Eugene Goossens, Herbert Ever too his love confessing, Through him all things were made. Howells, Carl Johann Eschmann, Bernard Stevens, Rachmaninov and Julius Who, from both, with both is one. For us men and for our salvation Reubke. As an organist he has recorded for a number of companies and for BBC Amen. he came down from heaven Radio 3, Scandinavian and American networks. In 1998 he completed the acclaimed by the power of the Holy Spirit first recordings of Marcel Dupré’s complete organ works, and in 2004 recorded the Requiem he was incarnate of the Virgin Mary, and was made man. six Organ Symphonies of Louis Vierne on the 1890 Cavaillé-Coll organ of St Ouen in Rouen. Educated at Oxford University, the Royal College of Music and Birmingham Conservatoire, his doctoral ! Introit For our sake he was crucified under Pontius Pilate; thesis exploring aesthetic and interpretative issues in the music of Marcel Dupré was completed in 2007. He teaches he suffered death and was buried. at the Royal Academy of Music in London and the Royal Northern College of Music in Manchester. He is also a Rest eternal grant unto them O Lord. And may light On the third day he rose again Lay Clerk in the choir of St George’s Chapel, Windsor Castle, but from summer 2008 is to be Principal Organist at perpetual shine upon them. in accordance with the Scriptures; the Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception in Washington DC. he ascended into heaven @ Kyrie and is seated at the right hand of the Father. He will come again in glory to judge both the living Lord have mercy, Christ have mercy, Lord have mercy. and the dead, and his kingdom will have no end. # Gloria We believe in the Holy Spirit, the Lord, Glory to God in the highest, and peace to his people on the giver of Life, earth. Lord God, heavenly King, Almighty God and who proceeds from the Father and the Son. Father. We worship you, we give thanks, we praise you With the Father and the Son he is worshipped and glorified.

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1 Behold a Great Priest Who with the Father and the Son together is David Goode worshipped and glorified, Behold a great priest, who in his lifetime pleased God Who spake by the Prophets. Born in 1971, David Goode was a music scholar at Eton College, Organ Scholar at King’s and was found righteous. And I believe in one Catholick and Apostolick Church. College, Cambridge, and Sub-Organist at Christ Church, Oxford. After a time as Organist-in- I acknowledge one Baptism for the remission of sins. Residence at the First Congregational Church in Los Angeles, he returned to Eton in 2005 as Mass for a Saint’s Day And I look for the Resurrection of the dead, Organist and Head of Keyboard. He also has an international concert career, with performances And the life of the world to come. at the Proms, the Queen Elizabeth Hall, and the Moscow Arts Centre. 3 Kyrie Amen.

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4 Credo Holy, holy, holy Lord God of Hosts. Heaven and earth are full of Thy glory. Glory be to Thee O Lord most I believe in one God the Father Almighty, high. Maker of heaven and earth, The Rodolfus Choir And of all things visible and invisible; 6 Benedictus The Rodolfus Choir is made up of singers aged 25 and younger who have been And in one Lord Jesus Christ, the only-begotten Blessed is he who cometh in the name of the Lord: chosen from past and present members of the Eton College Choral Courses for Son of God, Hosanna in the highest. prospective choral scholars. Each year these six-week-long summer courses Begotten of his Father before all worlds, attract some 350 students between the ages of sixteen and twenty, and of these God of God, Light of Light, 7 Agnus Dei perhaps a dozen are invited to join the Rodolfus Choir as places become vacant. Very God of very God, Many of these singers are choral scholars, some are at music college, and most Begotten, not made, O Lamb of God, that takest away the sins of the world, hope to make a career in music. Since its foundation in 1984 the choir has Being of one substance with the Father, have mercy upon us. toured on the continent, and has appeared at many English festivals including By whom all things were made; O Lamb of God, that takest away the sins of the world, the Three Choirs Festival in Gloucester, the BBC Proms, Ryedale, Three Who for us men and for our salvation came down have mercy upon us. Choirs, Snape Proms and York Early Music Festival. It has also performed throughout the United Kingdom at from heaven, O Lamb of God, that takest away the sins of the world, various other venues. The choir has made three recordings and recorded Songs of Praise. Its recent recordings And was incarnate by the Holy Ghost of the Virgin Mary, grant us Thy peace. include music as diverse as Monteverdi, Grier, Tallis and German Romantic motets. And was made man, And was crucified also for us under Pontius Pilate, 8 Gloria Ralph Allwood He suffered and was buried, And the third day he rose again according to Glory be to God on high, and in earth peace, good will Ralph Allwood is Precentor and Director of Music at Eton College. He runs the Eton Choral the Scriptures, to all men. We praise thee, we bless thee, we worship Courses, attended each year by singers aged between sixteen and twenty, regularly broadcasting And ascended into heaven, thee, we glorify thee, we give thanks to thee for thy for BBC Radio. The best singers from this form his Rodolfus Choir. He is a Choral Advisor for And sitteth on the right hand of the Father, great glory, O Lord God, heavenly King, God the Novello and Co., the National Youth Choir of Great Britain and for the Voices Foundation, and And he shall come again with glory to judge both Father Almighty. a judge for the Llangollen International Eisteddfod. He conducts the Windsor and Eton Choral the quick and the dead: Society and the National Youth Choir of Wales. He has recently been made an honorary Fellow Whose kingdom shall have no end. O Lord, the only-begotten Son, Jesu Christ; O Lord of the Royal School of Church Music and an honorary Associate of the Royal Academy of God, Lamb of God, Son of the Father, that takest away Music. And I believe in the Holy Ghost, the sins of the world, have mercy upon us. Thou that The Lord and giver of life, takest away the sins of the world, have mercy upon us. Who proceedeth from the Father and the Son, Thou that takest away the sins of the world, receive our

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Nicholas Jackson (né en 1934) motif canonique inspire le Sanctus, Benedictus et Agnus du Kyrie. Nicholas Jackson a aussi arrangé une partie de Œuvres chorales Dei. Comme dans le Credo, on retrouve dans le Gloria cette messe pour orgue seul intitulée Organ Mass qu’il a un accompagnement d’orgue plein de fougue (quasi una dédicacé à Jean Langlais et joué à Ste Clotilde à Paris, Nicholas Jackson est né à Londres en 1934. Sa famille Espagne et Croatie et a joué tout particulièrement à toccata), apportant une contribution vitale pour l’impact au Royal Festival Hall en 1984 et qui a été enregistrée pensait qu’il deviendrait architecte et marcherait sur les Notre Dame de Paris, au Royal Festival Hall, à la de ce mouvement très exubérant. sur l’orgue de la Cathédrale de Chartres pour Naxos traces de son grand-père Sir Thomas Graham Jackson. Cathédrale St Paul’s et à Madrid au Teatro Royal. II a Mass for a Saint’s Day reste dans le répertoire de (8.554773). Ce dernier a dessiné plusieurs des célèbres bâtiments souvent joué en Espagne donnant des récitals d’orgue et plusieurs églises avec choeurs aux Etats-Unis , dans les Le Magnificat de Nicholas Jackson était une d’Oxford à la fin du 19 ème siècle, dont le Centre trompette avec Maurice Murphy et Crispian Steele- églises anglicanes et le monde anglophone. A Noël commande de la Cathédrale de Canterbury en 1975. Les d’Examens (Examination Schools), le Pont des soupirs Perkins, et comme claveciniste avec le London Virtuosi 2006, elle a été télévisée en direct à Christ Church , en parties où le choeur chante énergiquement contraste (the Bridge of Sighs) et la façade de Brasenose College. (solistes du London Symphony Orchestra). Il a aussi Nouvelle Zélande. avec des passages plus tendres. Des accords lents De ce fait, on l’emmena à l’étranger pour étudier dirigé pendant 10 ans un festival de Bach au Monastère L’Elevation et la Toccata qui servent d’introduction résonnant comme des cloches accompagnent la partition l’architecture et, encore enfant, à Radley College il de Santes Creus en Catalogne. Il a enregistré plusieurs et de finale dans cette Messe proviennent d’une suite vocale pour le Nunc Dimittis. gagna un concours en dessinant un théâtre. En quittant CD parmi lesquels un de ses oeuvres pour orgue à Paris. appelée Four Images. Nicholas Jackson les a jouées à The Rood composé à St David’s en 1982 utilise un l’école il s’intéressa très vite à la musique et ensuite Nicholas Jackson dirige ‘Concertante of London’ un Notre Dame de Paris dans un récital en 1972 où il a poème inspiré par le crucifix situé au-dessus du buffet étudia la théorie musicale avec Edmund Rubbra à ensemble baroque comprenant l’élite des jeunes rencontré la jeune française qui plus tard est devenue sa d’orgue par Mary Denyer. Oxford, il poursuivit ses études à la Royal Academy of musiciens de Londres utilisant des instruments femme. I will give thanks ( psaume 111), était une Music avec C.H. Trevor pour l’orgue, George Malcolm d’époque, ils se produisent au Banqueting House, Tantum ergo est l’arrangement d’un hymne en commande de la 2nd Congregation Church, Greenwich pour le clavecin et John Gardner pour la composition. Il Whitehall, et ont enregistré dernièrement un CD, plain-chant et fut composé en 2005. aux Etats-Unis pour célébrer leur 250ème anniversaire. termina ses études d’orgue et de clavecin à Amsterdam réalisation d’un arrangement de L’Offrande Musicale de Le Requiem est l’élargissement de la composition Le Salve Regina fut composé à la suite d’une visite avec Gustav Leonhardt. Bach par Nicholas Jackson. Unicorn Press a publié un de la Messe Missa cum Jubilo qu’il avait écrite après la au Monastère de Montserrat en Catalogne en 1993 où Les compositions de Nicholas Jackson sont écrites livre de Nicholas Jackson sur les mémoires de son révision de la liturgie Anglicane en 1976, elle fut Nicholas Jackson entendit la chorale des garçons. dans un style moderne romantique avec les influences grand-père et il donne des conférences non seulement en souvent chantée à la Cathédrale de Canterbury. The Le Magnificat and Nunc Dimittis (pour soprano et de Duruflé, Langlais et Messiaen. En plus de ses Angleterre mais en Croatie et à Venise. Il a été Maître Introit, Pie Jesus, Libera me et In Paradisum ont été orgue dans le mode Lydian) fut diffusé par la radio oeuvres pour choeurs que vous trouverez ici, il a du Drapers’ Company en 1994-95 et possède le titre ajoutés en 2006. Ces morceaux en grande partie (BBC Pays de Galles) à St David’s en 1981. composé une grande quantité de musique pour orgue d’Honorary Fellow du Hertford College d’Oxford. incorporent des thèmes en plain-chant comme dans Le Te Deum and Jubilate fut commandé par le Arts qu’il a enregistrée pour Naxos en 2000, des morceaux Behold a Great Priest: a été écrit à l’occasion de la l’oeuvre de Duruflé. La composition est plus dense et Council du Pays de Galles et sa première fut jouée au pour orgue et trompette avec le célèbre trompettiste venue d’un Evêque à la Cathédrale de St David’s en avec davantage de contrepoint que dans sa Mass for a Festival de St David’s en 1984. Maurice Murphy. Il a aussi écrit un quintette pour 1980. Saint’s Day bien que là encore l’orgue apporte son cuivres, des morceaux pour piano et enfin un opéra ‘The Mass for a Saint’s Day est sa première oeuvre importante contribution tout le long. Le Requiem se Nicholas Jackson Reluctant Highwayman’qui fut produit par le théâtre composée avec choeur, elle a été enregistrée en 1970 sur termine en apothéose avec un Carillon utilisant le théme Traduction : Nadia Jackson Broomhill en 1992. Decca Eclipse, chantée par la Chorale de la Cathédrale Nicholas Jackson a fait ses débuts au Wigmore Hall de Winchester et a été publiée par Boosey Hawkes en comme claveciniste interprétant 4 concertos de Bach 1966. Dans le Kyrie un simple motif ascendant est avec son Orchestre de Chambre qui enregistra pour utilisé qui réapparaît au finale avec des intervalles très RCA et donna souvent des concerts entre autres, au rapprochées sur différents tons. Dans le Credo, un Queen Elizabeth Hall. En 1971, il devint organiste de St brillant accompagnement d’orgue supporte les voix avec James’s Piccadilly puis de St Lawrence Jewry-next- un thème dynamique à l’unisson. Deux morceaux se Guildhall à Londres avant de devenir Organiste Titulaire suivent: le premier avec un accompagnement rappelant et Maître de Chapelle à la Cathédrale de St David’s au le xylophone. Puis le passage annonçant la Résurrection Pays de Galles. s’élève en une fulgurante progression suivant les paroles En tant que récitaliste d’orgue il fait régulièrement “Whose kingdom shall have no end”, ensuite le thème des tournées aux Etats-Unis, en France, en Allemagne, d’ouverture est repris jusqu’au Amen final. Un simple

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Laura Oldfield, Soprano

Get this free download from Classicsonline! Jeremy Filsell, Organ Songs of Praise: Elgar Sonata in G: First movement Copy this Promotion Code NaxMjARSw6tF and go to http://www.classicsonline.com/mpkey/elgar_main. David Goode, Organ Downloading Instructions 1 Log on to Classicsonline. If you do not have a Classicsonline account yet, please register at The Rodolfus Choir http://www.classicsonline.com/UserLogIn/SignUp.aspx. 2 Enter the Promotion Code mentioned above. 3 On the next screen, click on “Add to My Downloads”. Ralph Allwood 8.570959 12 NAXOS NAXOS Nicholas Jackson has pursued a career as an organist, harpsichordist and composer. Mass for a Saint’s Day, his first choral work, achieved great success and remains in the repertoire of many church choirs all over the English-speaking world. Jackson’s Requiem, an enlargement of the composer’s Missa cum Jubilo, incorporates plainsong in the style of Duruflé.

JACKSON: DDD JACKSON: Nicholas JACKSON 8.570959 (b. 1934) Playing Time 1 Behold a Great Priest (1980) 1:35 ^ Sanctus 1:35 75:50 & Benedictus 2 2:05 Mass for a Saint’s Day (1966) 22:25 * Pater noster 1:01 2 Elevation (Organ solo) 2:18 ( Agnus Dei 2:07 Choral Works 3 Kyrie 1:37 ) Libera me Domine 3 2:49 Choral Works 4 Credo 4:30 ¡ In Paradisum 2:03 5 Sanctus 1:03 ™ Carillon (Organ solo) 5:02 6 Benedictus 0:52 £ The Rood (1982) 1:33 7 Agnus Dei 2:19 ¢ Magnificat (1975) 3:13 8 Gloria 2:53 ∞ Nunc Dimittis (1975) 4 1:48 9 Toccata (Organ solo) 3:45 § I will give thanks (1981) 2, 5 3:16 0 Tantum ergo (2005) 3:08 ¶ Salve Regina (1983) 2 3:12 • Magnificat in the Requiem (1976-2006) 27:48 1, 7 ! Introit 3:19 Lydian mode (1975) 2:39 ª @ Nunc Dimittis www.naxos.com Made in Germany Booklet notes in English • Notice en français Kyrie 1:07 1, 7 # Gloria 1:48 in the Lydian mode (1975) 1:20 $ Credo 3:11 º Te Deum (1984) 4:53 & % Pie Jesu 1, 7 1:40 ⁄ Jubilate (1984) 2:09 Laura Oldfield, Soprano solo 1 • Emily Beahan, Soprano solo 2 2008 Naxos Rights International Ltd. Peter Davoren, Tenor solo 3 • Francis Williams, Tenor solo 4 Henry Jones, Alto solo 5 • David de Winter, Tenor solo 5 Julian Debreuil, Bass solo 5 • David Goode, Organ 7 Jeremy Filsell, Organ • The Rodolfus Choir • Ralph Allwood Includes Free Downloadable Bonus Track available at www.classicsonline.com. Please see inside booklet for full details. Available sung texts are included, and may also be accessed at www.naxos.com/libretti/570959.htm 8.570959 Recorded at Eton College Chapel, England, from 10th to 12th August, 2006, and on 27th July, 2007 8.570959 Producer: Nicholas Jackson • Engineering, editing and mastering: David Wright Publishers: Nicholas Jackson (tracks 1-13, 20-23); Worldwide Music USA (tracks 14-19, 24-31) Cover image: Rose Orientale de l’Apocalypse (No 22, une des quatre harpes), Cathédrale de Laon, reproduced by kind permission of the Association Amis de la Cathédrale et de Saint-Martin de Laon