Mist Hovering, based on a melancholy chant-like melody, appears in four versions, for quartets of violas, tenors, altos and marimbas. Initially homophonic, when the melody refracts into simple but highly effective counterpoint the phrases swirl in languorous free-fall. Each version shimmers with a different colour, and the tremolo techniques in the instrumental versions create eerily human-sounding effects.

The crystalline textures of ...like the Wind recall the Second Viennese tradition. Setting Sun, with its unsettling layers of shifting, see-sawing figures, is paradoxically the busiest yet most static piece. In Incandescence the three violins, three violas and three cellos achieve remarkable, deceptively un-stringlike sounds.

All premičre recordings, these performances reveal the subtle, self-effacing beauty of Dukay’s music."

Barry Witherden, The Gramophone