'It is a composition of a certain touching simplicity. Yet there as a kind of surreptitious humour in the single pizzicato notes played at rhythmic intervals. There was drama in the abrupt crescendo of sounds, lyricism in the short passages finely played by the first violin and in the 'replies' by flute and cello, and balance in the muted horns off stage. Note was a colourful blending of thought and sound into which material much imagination has been woven.'