Annette Morreau writes 'This is a remarkable work, a setting of Yeats’ Long-Legged Fly, where Benjamin has found a newly expressive sound world - rasping colours in rich dissonant chords, pizzicato and tremolo effects. Andin his use of the voice in hesitant parlando style, the claustrophobic nature of the poem is decisively captured.'

The Independent, 30th October 1996.