This sequence of music for ballet and opera ranges broadly, and indeed out of the period when a more modest ‘Le roi’ was inclined to ‘danse’. Never mind, it is fascinating, instructive and entertaining. Along with rarities such as music from the early Ballet de la nuit, crucial to Lully’s rise as a composer, we find such infrequently heard composers as Jacques Cordier and Robert Cambert. There is also much to admire in performances that are idiomatic and subtle, especially in the deploying of lilting rhythmic inequality, even if at times they are not quite as together as the martinet Lully might have liked.

-- Jan Smaczny, BBC Music Magazine