‘Intricate and yet transparent; original and bizarre. The dominant motif of the ‘raucous’ sections is just a sequence of stabbing repeated notes, always preceded and followed by a whirling chromatic flourish. The flourishes blossom elaborately … As one section succeeds another, furious chromatic scales are added to the texture; and they scream upward to announce the ‘peroration’ …’
Financial Times (David Murray), 17 February 1999 ‘…a pungently colourful, rhythmically stabbing affair …’
The Sunday Times (Paul Driver), 21 February 1999