His oratorio A Song on the End of the World, named after a Czesław Miłosz poem from Nazi-occupied Warsaw and written as the last pre-millennial Elgar Commission of the Three Choirs Festival at Worcester, was hailed as "thrilling, apocalyptic and profoundly affecting".
The oratorio A Song on the End of the World, inspired by a Czesław Miłosz poem from Nazi-occupied Warsaw and commissioned for the last pre-millennial Three Choirs Festival at Worcester, was celebrated as "thrilling, apocalyptic and profoundly affecting".