“A rapid-fire, virtuosically rhymed English-language gloss on the original text…The commentary…was a hoot….The instrumental component is built over a strong groove…The concluding [vowel] o — “supreme Trumpet full of strange discords, / Silences crossed by Worlds and by Angels” — brought out ecstatic outpourings from singers and high instruments and a flush of brilliant sound from the keyboards…the piece seems designed, like hip-hop, for repeated listening. ”

“I wish Paiement had put it twice on this shortish program.”