Recorded in the chapel at Versailles, Le Concert Spirituel’s large contingent of winds..., harp, cymbals, tam-tam and timpani are optimised by Hervé Niquet’s fervent conducting. The launch of the Introit has supernatural timbres. The full force of the choir causes shrillness from sopranos occasionally but the communication of extrovert imagery is stupendous, and interleaving reflective passages provide shaded respite.

His colourfully scored Requiem combines French revolutionary opera rhetoric with Italianate influences. Versailles’s stunning but problematically resonant Royal Chapel provides an atmospheric backdrop to this fine historically informed performance.