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• ...Tavener continues to produce some of the most distinctive music in our time. His acutely original ear for sonority resonates throughout this extraordinary half-hour vision. Sweet consonance and febrile dissonance jostle with the hypnotic ringing of a Tibetan temple bowl.
  Nicholas Kenyon, The Guardian, 19 December 2011
• ..truly immersive...the music eschews morbidity: its keynote is rather one of otherness and mystery, a diaphanous adumbration of things as yet unseen, or seen through a glass darkly.
  Terry Blain, BBC Music Magazine, 01 February 2011
• The opening features a crowded landscape of overlaid motifs busily fighting for space. Then, as each successive state is achieved, the motifs cycle ever more slowly, the music seeming to aerate and dissipate graudally....dissolving into just the rubbed humming of the singing bell. From the ridiculously complex to the sublimely evanescent, in just over half an hour.
  , The Independent, 26 November 2010
• SACD sound was made for this … It is enormously powerful, by turns lush and spare, with a simultaneous sense of the ritual and the sensual. Tavener has always been a profoundly inspired melodist, and there are joyous moments in this work … A glimpse of eternity.
  
  , International Record Review