BBC music magazine2014 MayafafMichael Tanner (musikanmelder)2014 May"Highly personal, unmistakable music ... This is a wonderful and important release of his powerful and often delicate works ... This disc is the most fitting tribute imaginable to Birtwistle on his 80th birthday".
The gramophone2014 MayafafStephen Plaistow2014 May"I doubt whether anything the year brings for Birtwistle's 80th birthday is going to dim the lustre of this excellent recording of his choral music".