 Pianist Joanna MacGregor described the piece in 2012 as being "sculpted, dream-like and mesmeric", and some of the younger generation of composers regard it as being "flawless" and "one of the most important orchestral scores to have been composed by an Englishman" written up until the 70s..Professor Robert Adlington stated that, unlike in "Chronometer", the composer is more concerned about the qualitative aspect of time, rather than the quantitative – that is, it "involves itself not so much with time's extent and length as with the form of its "motion"".Scholar Seth Brodsky also stated the following about "The Triumph of Time"