Nicholas Wearne - Gabriel Jackson: Beyond the Stars (Sacred Choral Works, Vol. 2) (2012)

Celebrating his fiftieth birthday in 2012, Gabriel Jackson has had a long and close association with the Choir of St Mary's Cathedral. This is the choir's second disc of Jackson's choral music on Delphian, and under Duncan Ferguson's dynamic direction they bring a special authority, and all their characteristic verve and intensity, to a sequence of recording premieres centered on the florid Hymn to St Margaret of Scotland, newly written for the choir. This sumptuously recorded disc opens a window on the luminous sound-world of one of Britain's finest choral composers.