- Laudes (1964): "... moves in a kind of sensuous trance.
It is ecstatic, luminous, even passive music which is&emdash;the
word is used with full awareness&emdash;beautiful"
Roger Covell (Sydney Morning Herald)
- Meditations of Thomas Traherne (1968): "Butterley has
taken the musical language of today and transformed it with
intense meaning and emotion."
C.M. Prerauer (Nation)
- Sometimes with One I Love (1976): "The poetry of love
locked in embrace with the love of poetry has inspired Nigel
Butterley to write one of the most hauntingly lyrical works by an
Australian composer."
F.R. Blanks (Sydney Morning Herald)
- The Owl (1987): "... one of the most effective
Australian works in recent times in any form."
Martin Long (The Australian)
- Lawrence Hargrave Flying Alone (opera) (1988): "... the
dramatic development from beginning to end is perhaps the most
striking accomplishment of Lawrence Hargrave Flying Alone. Nigel
Butterley's score must be accounted a triumph. This is his first
opera, yet right from the opening scene there is in evidence a
composer who possesses a sure command of the operatic form.
Hargrave, the visionary of human flight, is imaged for us in music
of great emotional depth and complexity."
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Richard Synott (The Listener)
- From Sorrowing Earth (1991): "It is one of the finest
creative achievements of music in this country."
Roger Covell (Sydney Morning Herald)
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- From Sorrowing Earth is a mature, 25-minute masterpiece
for full orchestra: a powerful, gradually evolving essay that
amply repays repeated listening as Nigel Butterley lets us into
his richly textured inner world."
Raymond Chapman Smith (The Advertiser,
Adelaide)
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