Reviews

• The Cantilena and Fugue opens with a broad, expressive melody for solo trumpet. Varied repetitions of this tune in both the organ and trumpet underpin much of what follows, sometimes prominent, at other times functioning discreetly as cantus firmus. The emphasis is thus on the melodic material (and, as to be expected with Wood, on motivic concentration) rather than colour; the careful selection of organ stops nevertheless cleverly articulates thematic material and structure.
  
  The subsequent Fugue, which Wood marks 'Brisk, brash', complements the Cantilena delightfully. Where the latter is sustained and song-like, the former is characterised by staccato, detaché quavers vigorously arpeggiating up and down through leaps of (mainly) fifths. Despite the brevity of the movement, Wood finds time to present the subject in all manner of inversions, augmentations and strettos, before stopping the fugue in its tracks to end with a buoyant coda.
  Edward Venn, Tempo