L'Orchestre de Louis XV [2 CD set with comprehensive booklet]

"This is dance music of dizzying variety and instrumental colour...There's lively, rumbustious playing from Le Concert des Nations...The angular contredanses with their quirky intervals, and the magnificent chaconnes, are splendid - the one for Naïs (1748), involving dancing athletes, boxers, runners and wrestlers, is made for the Olympics opening."
(The Observer)

"Jordi Savall and his ebullient Baroque orchestra, Le Concert des Nations, have released recordings of the music Philidor wrote for Louis XIII, and Lully for Louis XIV. All is eclipsed by the double-CD of Rameau's fabulously spirited rococo pieces for Louis XV's orchestra...these suites have a tunefulness, an instrumental diversity and a quirky joyousness that even the most curmudgeonly Anglo-Saxon soul will find hard to resist."
(The Times)

"Le Concert des Nations, an orchestra of about thirty players under Jordi Savall, uses instruments of the period, and the results here are of the highest order in all departments. Rameau's use of percussion provides a variety of textures, none more so than in Les Vents a movement from Les Boréades, and the natural horns make a wonderful sound.

Recorded in 2010 and 2011 at the Collégiale de Cardona in Catalonia and at La Grande Salle de l'Arsenal in Metz, France, the sound quality is superb. That almost goes without saying concerning Alia Vox productions, of course, but the naturalness and unforced quality, the sense of air and space around the performers, especially in the very fine multichannel version, still amazes with its fidelity."
(Five Stars AusAud.com)