G. Jackson - A Ship With Unfurled Sail

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.