It opens with a scream and ends in a hymn. Jonathan Harvey's orchestral work, Speakings, is possibly one of the most adventurous orchestral compositions ever undertaken by any composer, certainly in ...

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Between 2005 and 2008, Jonathan Harvey was the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra's composer-in-association. The final and most ambitious work to come out of that collaboration was Speakings, for large ...

Plainchant, Buddhist ritual and magical electronics variously permeate the three works here, written by Harvey between 1992 and 2008. They all centre around the idea of a voice, but without using a ...

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