To the end, the orchestra speaks with one voice, as a "soloist" whose single line nevertheless contains multiple inflections, multifarious nuances...Pascal Rophé and the Orchestre de Liège Wallonie Bruxelles are consistently alert to the basic expressive shapes that lie behind the music's deceptively explicit continuities.

This is an important document, an integral recording of a huge and deeply impressive “cycle of the seven forms”...It’s certainly not pretty music, but it is always deeply compelling and brilliantly imagined.

Though some of these seven pieces uncoil climaxes of savagery, there is a delicacy and refinement to much of the orchestral writing that sometimes recalls Dutilleux or other French composers of an earlier 20th-century generation.