The Voice of the Bard
Now I have known, O Lord
O Doctor optime
Missa Triueriensis
Thomas, Jewel of Canterbury
Sanctum est verum lumen
Angeli, archangeli
A ship with unfurled sails
Aeterna caeli Gloria
Ave regina caelorum (with Kaspars Zemitis electric guitar)

The Latvian choral tradition is admired worldwide, and the nation’s composers for these forces are writing overwhelmingly spiritual music perhaps a reaction to the suppression of that material by the Soviets. But here the Latvian State Choir do the honour of turning to a British composer albeit one who has immersed himself in the contemporary Baltic sound-world. Gabriel Jackson’s sumptuous choral textures and beautiful, yet individual, harmonic language respond thrillingly to the Latvian treatment.