Knussen, Oliver - Higglety Pigglety Pop!

The piece is full of clever and beautiful things: the early scenes proceed almost in convulsions of orchestral brilliance within a marvellously clear and animated world whose chief references, sometimes explicit, are to Ravel and Stravinsky. The scene with the pig is deliciously rich in bass gruntings: that with the milkman cat mixes Marx brohters dialogue with a sophisticated recreation of low musical gags.Paul Griffiths, The Times, 6 August 1985

Higglety Pigglety Pop! (libretto)

ISBN	9780571519330 (0571519334)