Hervé Niquet directs a fine instrumental ensemble whose players are entirely at ease with the score's stylistic niceties. The singing is more variable, though Salome Haller is magnificent as Isabelle and Andrew Foster-Williams is entirely convincing as Rodolphe. Overall it's a fascinating issue.

The music is irresistible in a performance as charismatic as this – so vivid that one can see, in the mind’s eye, all the fun and frolics on stage. Niquet and his ensemble display the sort of effortless stylishness that makes this music as fresh as the day it was composed.

There is much here that Campra inherited from the tragedies of Lully...Despite this, and the wounded feelings of the unrequited lovers, the predominant mood is upbeat. Herve Niquet and his forces - there are no weak links - give a performance to brighten up the dullest mood.

the orchestra of the Concert Spirituel has an ingrained sense of how to play this music...It is good to welcome this important piece of operatic history to the catalogue.

Dramatically, it still startles...Conducted by Hervé Niquet, the performance is fine, with stylish choral singing and playing from Le Concert Sprituel. As the lovers, Andrew Foster-Williams and Marina De Liso have more fun as wicked Rodolphe and Léonore than Salomé Haller and mature-sounding Alain Buet as goody-goodies Isabelle and Léandre.