the fine performance of Guy van Waas and Les Agrémens reveals music of imaginative colours and profuse sentimentality that sometimes sounds like a stepping-stone between Haydn's Creation and Berlioz's Damnation of Faust.

La mort d'Abel is a most interesting and intriguing work which shows some features of French opera tradition and modern traits...The cast is generally very good...Pruvot sings the role of Adam with much authority but also with sensitivity in those episodes where that is required...Bou gives his role much credibility and doesn't push Cain's anger too far.