[1][3] The work is scored for a solo violin and a chamber ensemble comprising a flute, oboe, clarinet, horn, trumpet, trombone, percussion, harp, piano, viola, and cello.
Reviewing the world premiere, Stephen Walsh of The Arts Desk called the music "intricate and self-absorbed, sonorities like birdsong in the upper branches, seldom coming to the ground but finely heard and very cleverly scored for a dozen instruments.
"[2] Ivan Hewett of The Daily Telegraph similarly lauded, "Charlotte Bray’s light-footed mini-violin concerto Caught in Treetops seized the image of the moon in Dante Gabriel Rossetti sonnet.
When the orchestra joins the outstanding soloist Alexandra Wood, primitive, André Jolivet-like harmonies creep into earshot and drag the work into a sultry slow section.
[5]Richard Whitehouse of Gramophone praised the "powerful concertante writing" of the piece and lauded the "tensile cadenza which duly casts its aura over the respectively capricious and meditative movements.