"The theme is transformation, by love or magic or a combination ... Arcangelo's instrumental playing is reliably interesting, sometimes too interesting (Jonathan Cohen is not a 'less is more' director) ... Prohaska's real talent is for the the earthy, wordy, rhythmically and emotionally multivalent declamations of Cavalli and Monteverdi ... Lamento della ninfa is the standout performance, brilliantly characterised by Prohaska ... This is more like an opera compressed into mere minutes".