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Production value stuff I won't really comment on, since all things considered you're probably a better sound designer than I am. @mark styles has provided good information to you regarding some engineering stuff. There are some parts that overlay in diatonically polytonal language that confuse me sometimes. Around the 2:30 mark, you retain your i - iv vamp but your melody goes to a iv - v vamp, which creates a im11 and a iv13(#11) sound which can be distracting. I know the point is to retain to lines at once, but sometimes it doesn't work for me. Horns playing high C at the beginning is a difficult thing for them to do, the highest of most player's tessituras. Careful writing concert F's. The sections are quite nicely flowed through, though when it comes back down to the chants, it never seems to leave that portion of the dramatic arc, leaving the ending feeling rushed.

You should listen with your headphones. Computer speakers are usually pretty cheap.. Read reviews online of speaker systems. Their are some fairly inexpensive pretty decent speakers, to very expensive. Do you use a Mac or PC.. - an audio interface?.. I'd read thru the internet on reviews, and videos about speakers, production etc. There is a ton of information out there. Of course on the internet not all is truth, but there are some very dedicated guys/girls making videos who want to share their knowledge. Making music if something you will learn at for the rest of your life. Several years back, in Keyboard Magazine there was an article about this very accomplished award winning jazz pianist, Fred Hersch. In his mid 60's he was still studying with his 92 year old teacher. Keep composing, recording, you're doing great

Well, see, the Ode to Joy theme, slightly altered, is actually one of the fugue subjects in a double fugue that appears toward the end of the movement, so it is absolutely not the type of melody composed by a kid who's starting out at piano lessons, but the type of melody carefully crafted by a master composer. https://youtu.be/XFRfzCiVx_Y?t=962 (16:03) Look harder https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KVqlIjwP1l8 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8QT7ITv9Ecs https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=75x6DncZDgI That's strange, considering his reputation as a master contrapuntalist and harmonist. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1EIE78D0m1g Then I would say you have "Unfinished" business: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0mnrHf7p0jM