‘Woolrich’s voice emerged in the fascinating juxtaposition of primary sources among themselves, and in their relation to the present. The first intimation came halfway through, when a humble minuet took on a wickedly Mahlerian scowl. Then, in a concluding elegy floating on a sea of extended tonality, eighteenth and nineteenth century idioms were resolved in an atmosphere of high expressive tension.’
The Independent (Nicholas Williams), 1 May 1992