It was simple but never simplistic, and performed with consummate artistry.

Financial Times, 19 February 2022

Over the music’s 20-minute span, the four singers sang the names of rocks of different ages, beginning with the youngest, a stripling of only 250 million years, uttered at a piercing altitude by soprano Else Torp. She and the other singers traced a complex, spiralling descent down to the depths, against the backdrop of a simpler descent in organ and percussion, to mirror the increase of the rocks’ age to the two billion year-old Vishnu schist. It was simple but never simplistic, and performed with consummate artistry.