A selection of reviews include:

“… a multi-layered string ensemble, handled with great suppleness and force. The writing is athletic and idiomatic and, at the same time, complexly demanding of the players who serve ardently spiritual strivings.”

“… music of wild stamping energy, dancing brilliance and intimacy, balancing to the end an intriguing mix of repetition and newness, and nicely wrenching itself out of lush harmony into striding mechanical jitters.”

“… his ear for orchestral colour sounded at least both assured and imaginative.”

“… the work was couched in a formal scheme of such invention that … Clarke could really be described as communicating both form and substance.”

“… it is clear that his was a remarkable achievement.”

“The unique juxtaposition of old (the soothing tonality of Bruckner) with the new (the jarring sounds from the winds) required a shifting of auditory sensibilities which was itself a novel experience.”

“… full of energy and bold gestures … it made an immediate impression.”

“A two movement structure for 12 instruments, it revealed a substance both stern and volatile, harnessed into a clever manipulation of short sections and considerable density of musical thought.”