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This early Mass is a beautiful piece, intimately scored for voices with two melody instruments and continuo. The Mass is harmonically richly inventive with passages of vivid word-painting.
Taken... — Gramophone Classical Music Guide, 2010 More…

An hour's wonderful music for a fiver would be good news even if the performances were less distinguished than most of these. — Classic CD More…

Meredith Hall has the widest range to encompass and is excellent....absolutely enchanting particularly when played with such elan as they are here under the lively and stylish direction of Niquet...... — Fanfare More…

Briefly, these are polished and persuasive performances that favor energy and propulsion over stateliness or bombast. They may sound more theatrical that churchly, but that seems entirely appropriate... — American Record Guide, September/October 2000 More…

The performances here are first-rate, with an accomplished and idiomatic crew of soloists, and fine work from the band and chorus. These are still the only available recordings of three of the... — Fanfare, September/October 2000 More…

The splendour of Lully's ceremonial sacred music for the 17th-century French court is magnificently captured on this first volume in a series of his Grand Motets...excellently focused but with... — The Telegraph, 11th September 1999 More…

Herve Niquet and his ensemble, Le Concert Spirituel, are generally agreed to rank among the very finest exponents of French Baroque music. It was therefore an inspired choice when Naxos engaged... — International Record Review, May 2000 More…