Full of striking ideas, often complex, though some are beguilingly simple. A couple of gestures lose their lustre through over-use, but this is an intriguing sound-world.

Fiercely committed performances, as might have been expected from the calibre of the artists and ensembles involved, and a disc which deserves attention from all inquiring listeners for some seriously impressive music-making.

Many of his works seem at first encounter uncompromising and rebarbative...But though the two pieces that open this collection from the last decade seem to be the opposite sides of that same, rather forbidding coin...what makes them anything but forbidding is the energy and exuberance that powers so much of Hayden's invention.

Sam Hayden has a brilliant ear – the overlapping violin, flute and percussion lines deliciously collide and converse. You’re left reeling at the fact that these rich sounds can be produced by so few players and can actually be notated...All stimulating, and Virgil Ferragut’s sleeve art is equally imposing.