Unlike Liverpool Oratorio, the project was not an operatic performance of a story, but an instrumental one, though employing the use of a choir.

The work was recorded by the 80 piece London Symphony Orchestra, a 120-member choir, and conducted by Lawrence Foster at EMI's Abbey Road Studios.

This project was her husband's last release before Linda died of breast cancer on 17 April 1998, having been diagnosed almost three years earlier.

A documentary was made during the sessions, The Making of Standing Stone, and subsequently broadcast on BBC and PBS.

The world premiere performance at The Royal Albert Hall was also filmed and broadcast on Channel 5 in the UK.