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Speakings a new musical language

Jonathan Harvey describes his latest offering as �the most complicated and ambitious composition I have ever written�, writes Michael Tumelty

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 the recent history of music.