A Possible Daily Thought -- Pan Cogito Belatedly Notes A Leading British Critic's Consideration Of A Leading British Sacred Composer

Jonathan Harvey - composer

'Harvey's music - ecstatic, inspired, filled now with contemplative rapture, then suddenly with exuberant, joyful dance, and always beautiful - has long stirred me. Among contemporary composers there is none except Stockhausen who can so regularly "with sweetness, through mine ear, dissolve me into extasies, and bring all Heav'n before mine eyes".'

Andrew Porter, TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT 19.xi.99

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