Australian composer Phillip Houghton also contributes a suite, 'Stele', that derives its inspiration from monuments erected by the Greeks to those lost at sea. It is this vivid and technically exacting work that Williams fully trancends the ordinary limitations of the guitar. Mere strings are left behind, as performer and listener are absorbed in a seemingly endless array of dramatic and colouristic possibilities.

- Reviewer: Tony Way, The Age (newspaper) 1998 Review of John Williams' CD "The Guitarist"