The overall mood of this sensitive commemorative piece,first performed in April 1996 at Kirkwall East Church, on the Orkney mainland, by Heather Rendall, is quite sombre - if anything, even more simple and restrained than that of Veni Creator Spiritus. The hushed,carol-like central section - sounding as if the adapted chorale were being heard like some distant memory or from afar - is of touching simplicity