"The mood, as the title suggests, is raptly descriptive. The style is measured and tonal, vaguely reminiscent of Vaughan Williams, with dissonances few and far between. The texture is polyphonic and rhythmically inventive, the melodic figurations are all singable. The flute part contains no technical challenges, its chief requirement being the will and ihe ability to phrase and to blend carefully with the clarinet within a limited but important range of dynamics. This is the kind of piece which is easy and inexpensive to put on, rewarding to play and pleasant to listen to. All success to it."Richard Stagg, (British Flute Society Journal)