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This setting was commissioned by the BBC Singers and premiered in April 2012. The text recounts the destruction of the ancient city of Jerusalem by King Nebuchadnezzar in 586 BC. Jackson has described his setting of the Prophet Jeremiah's text as 'a more personal, immediate response to these uniquely desolate words'.


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