...Less patterned, more structurally free than the Messiaen works that one immediately evokes for comparison, it nonetheless shares something of their rich harmonic language. A better comparison might be the "First Organ Symphony" of Sorabji, though the extended open-textured meditative passages in Berger's work would not have appealed to Sorabji, one feels (...) The coupling of this piece with the two "Adagios" for violin and piano is a surprising one, but it makes sense the second, lasting a full half hour, begins with a simple, slow chorale and builds to something evocative of religious ecstasy... Records International