Jess Gillam with... C Duncan
This Classical Life
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All-Sachroom Convivium by Olivier Messian
Messian is one of my all-time favourite composers. I just adore his music. This was always a piece that, from when I first heard it at maybe the age of 14, I always wanted to tackle it. It's only four-part harmony, which whenever I first read the score, I just couldn't believe that there's only four voices,. And I think that's the way it moves. It just goes through all these very beautiful, very Messian chords.
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