‘… perfectly apt for the viola: seven linked movements like songs-without-words, all of them melancholy, each with a half-concealed inspiration … soft, pungent music, dense with thoughtful feeling but transparently scored … quiteoriginal.’
Financial Times (David Murray), 5 July 1995
‘… the orchestra is treated as an extended ensemble which amplifies and resonates the soloist’s musings, a pronounced lyrical vein often coming to the fore.’
International Record Review (Graham Simpson) January 2002
‘… a masterpiece – in any sane society, it would have had fifty performances by now. I can’t hear the conclusion without being moved almost to tears.’
Colin Matthews on BBC Radio 3, May 2002
Financial Times (David Murray), 5 July 1995
‘… the orchestra is treated as an extended ensemble which amplifies and resonates the soloist’s musings, a pronounced lyrical vein often coming to the fore.’
International Record Review (Graham Simpson) January 2002
‘… a masterpiece – in any sane society, it would have had fifty performances by now. I can’t hear the conclusion without being moved almost to tears.’
Colin Matthews on BBC Radio 3, May 2002