Vashegyi gets wonderful singing and playing from his Hungarian forces…The earthquake is vivid in the extreme, and so is the tempest…The singers, some of whom have appeared with Vashegyi before, are all one could desire… Apart from some overenthusiastic timpani rolls, the whole thing – performance and recording – is beautifully done.

There are excellent reasons for investigating this Glossa set, not the least of which is Vashegyi’s thoroughly idiomatic direction…Then there is the splendid quality of his cast…If only because he appears in all three entrées, star billing on this occasion must go to Reinoud Van Mechelen, now very much the go-to tenor in this repertoire…The loveliest singing comes from Katherine Watson’s pellucid and sensitive Émilie in ‘Le Turc’.

The colourful variety of Rameau’s music never ceases to delight, and if this account is rather more hard-edged and bumptious than its sweeter French competitors, it carries the listener along...the final grand Chaconne sweeps all before it.