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The cast is solid. The title-role has strong possibilities which soprano Lenneke Ruiten regularly seizes, among them the opera’s close, when Armida’s destructive fury reaches its apogee. Teresa... — BBC Music Magazine, March 2021, 4 out of 5 stars More…

Rousset’s mesmerising conducting binds chorus to band in Lully’s most striking passages...The principals are equally arresting...The palm, however, goes to the band and chorus of the Les Talens... — BBC Music Magazine, December 2022, 5 out of 5 stars More…

a fascinating conspectus of works that open a wdnow onto the refined, pastoral, love-anguished sensibilities of the French operatic repertoire of the 18th century. — BBC Music Magazine, November 2023, 3 out of 5 stars (Performance) / 4 out of 5 stars (Recording More…

The recording uses children’s and men’s voices only, replicating the sounds and the circumstances of the work’s first performance at the allmale college. This approach works best in the dramatic... — BBC Music Magazine, May 2024, 3 out of 5 stars More…

All of the works on this recording are beautifully crafted, and played in exemplary fashion by violist Vinciane Béranger and her colleagues. In recent years, Clarke’s music has received well-deserved... — Fanfare, Nov/Dec 2022 More…

Rousset and his performers are lithe and imaginative. A well-chosen cast make much of Lully's expressive recitative. — Financial Times, 26th October 2023, 4 out of 5 stars More…

Christophe Rousset is probably one of the best interpreters of this sort of style, and Les Talens Lyriques is a top-class ensemble. The rhythms are all geared towards display of the works, from... — Fanfare, Jan/Feb 2024 More…

Sabata sings this complex programme with his customary elegance and flair. His dark, warm alto has always sounded good in slower arias, where the long lines flow with ease and his breath control... — Gramophone Magazine, April 2019 More…