First performance by Peter Jenkin (clarinet), Daryl Pratt (celesta) and Alice Giles (harp), Kowmung Music Festival, Abercrombie Caves, NSW 27 March 1999
Reviews
Hymn to the Sun, written in memory of the late Peggy Glanville-Hicks, is his very free instrumental reworking of a single-line vocal piece by Mesomedes of Crete, which survives from the second century in alphabetic pitch notation and text. On this disc it becomes a kind of timeless incantatory prelude to a series of compositions about a mythical figure who clearly fascinates Ford: the doomed over-reacher, Icarus.
Roger Covell, Sydney Morning Herald