The Capriccio Baroque Orchestra delivers some memorable playing, with impressive style and ornamentation. Its wind players offer some pungent solo playing in a suitably ambient acoustic. Not all is plain sailing, however: on occasion the string ensemble is a little ragged and the tuning of the recorders is not impeccable. But all in all this is a very attractive collection.

Dominik Kiefer and his Capriccio colleagues approach the music of Lully from a fresh angle, by choosing to recreate the manner in which it was performed abroad in the decades immediately after the composer's death, rather than focusing on the first performances...a fascinating, valuable glimpse into the perils of presenting a very particular repertoire shorn of its original context and idiosyncratic orchestration.

Every reason for lovers of baroque orchestral music to be enthusiastic about this disc.