570959 bk Jackson EU 4/15/08 11:03 AM Page 12 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 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 570959 bk Jackson EU 4/15/08 11:03 AM Page 2 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. 8.570959 211 8.570959 570959 bk Jackson EU 4/15/08 11:03 AM Page 10 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.