‘… Like Savitri, The Wandering Scholar is swift - footed and spare of frame. Clifford Bax’s libretto is shapely and amusing, and Holst’s pungent music somehow contrives to give it the flavour of a bawdy epigram.’
The Observer (Edmund Tracey)‘These melodies retain a certain popular flavour and yet they have real dramatic bite; they are enlivened by vivid turns of phrase, by surprising cross-currents and Holst’s characteristically asymmetrical rhythms to make a witty, compact and attractive work.’
The Musical Times (Robert Henderson)