“The effect is truly seamless… the score sounds like late Debussy.”Andrew Clements
The Guardian · 16 June 2014
Critical reception
Reviews
The most illuminating responses presented as evidence—not as a wall of text.
“A brilliant musicologist… a fantastic orchestrator and a really, really good composer.”Jeremy Sams · BBC Radio 3 Summer Record Review · 20 August 2016
The Guardian · 16 June 2014
“Though virtually half the music is Orledge, you wouldn’t know it, so relentlessly authentic is the effect.”Paul Driver
The Sunday Times · 22 June 2014
“By completing this work, Robert Orledge has done the music world a big favour.”The Sprout
25 April 2015
“A sweat-producing listening experience… in the end, the audience is beside itself cheering.”Tim Schleiber
Stuttgarter Zeitung · 9 August 2006