Senaillé has been ill-served in the concert hall and the studio. This splendid disc, outstandingly well recorded, makes a pleasing gesture towards remedying matters...Langlois de Swarte negotiates all with insouciant ease, enhanced by the rapport of Christie’s harpsichord playing.

De Swarte has a gentle, lyrical tone on his Baroque violin, yet he brings a measure of virtuosic brilliance and even passionate roughness when called for. Christie brings his lifelong experience in the French Baroque style to provide intelligently and imaginatively worked out realizations of the continuo bass line; one feels that a supporting string bass would be an intrusion on this intimate partnership.

Langlois de Swarte...takes the music magnificently in his stride, avoiding over-fussy articulation and digging into the strings of his strong-voiced Stainer violin to make it sing. Christie’s continuo-playing is similarly free of needless elaboration, yet always quick, responsive and attentive to sonority.

There’s no sense in the performances that de Swarte is in any way subordinate or taking the role of an apprentice; despite his youth and Christie’s vast experience, it’s a partnership of equals.