'...begins with a merry bustle; it might be the prelude to some operatic scene of surging industry; then from the activity there rises, soaring and strong, a chorale.  The piece is a allegory with a simple, moving aptness...that makes its immediate appea; and with a richness and subtlety of musical organisation that will surely give lasting value to the occasional piece...'
Andrew Porter, Financial Times, June 1967