‘…this is an effective setting for chorus and orchestra of religious-mystical poems by an ecclesiastic who, like the Vicar of Bray, was caught up in the Catholic v. Protestant storms of the period. The nature of the words suggests suitability for performance particularly during Easter. The choral writing gives comparatively simple texture with dissonance kept within approachable realisation by amateur singers with the helpful device of working away from, and back to, consonance. The second poem is set for choral speaking. The orchestral score is both clear and effective with a brief recitative-like figure in the flutes to provide a connecting link - a lantern, as it were - through the mystic haze. In short, strongly recommended.