Publisher's Synopsis
First performed in 1985 by the Hallé Orchestra conducted by Bryden Thomson, this work was commissioned by the Halle Orchestra for European Music Year.
"The argument proceeds inexorably in wave-like periods of accumulating tension and crashing release, with much colourful use of the orchestra: in pealing bell bursts, for instance, or in sustained plateaux of fascinating texture."
Paul Griffiths, The Times, 20 December, 1985