Just as with their outstanding exploration of Saint-Saëns’s orchestral music, Neeme Järvi and the Royal Scottish National Orchestra bring wit, vigour and colour to this effervescent music. Järvi’s exceptional experience ensures that favourite moments do not disappoint...The RSNO is on scintillating form, with idiomatically characterful woodwind, vibrant brass, luminescent strings and crisp percussion.

Neeme Järvi...has pulled together nearly an hour and a half of the most appealing and galvanizing numbers in Delibes’s three major ballets. He’s in good form, and the Scottish National Orchestra plays with élan and spark. Chandos supplies its usual fine sound...a delight, and worth a pirouette or two when nobody is looking!

Järvi’s affection for this music is very much apparent from the warmth with which he conducts it and the way he carefully emphasises the imaginative subtleties of Delibes’s orchestration...It’s a lovely album, and superbly recorded, too.