Gabriel Jackson's innovative and compelling setting of The Passion of Our Lord Jesus Christ, winner of the 2020 BBC Music Magazine Choral Award, tells a familiar story with extraordinary emotional depth and intrigue. The composer masterfully weaves together texts from all four biblical gospels, Latin hymns, and the powerful writings of Edmund Blunden and T.S. Eliot, bringing Christ's journey to the cross vividly to life through richly textured choral writing and imaginative instrumentation.

The work's distinctive soundscape—featuring prominent soprano saxophone, piccolo, harp, and percussion—creates a translucent yet raw musical experience. Rather than concluding with the Resurrection, Jackson ends with a passage from T.S. Eliot's Little Gidding, reminding us, as the composer notes, "that the events of Christ's passion are not merely historical but occur and reoccur in an eternal present." Join us this Lent for a profoundly moving musical journey that will resonate deep within your soul.