Overture Leonore I op. 138

"It's especially rewarding to find a fresh, polished and vital new account [Leonore overture no. 1], in stunning SACD sound, opening this impressive release ... Soprano Maria Bengtsson [in Ah! perfido] ... brilliantly done, with a strong dramatic presence ... Anybody as yet unfamiliar with Cherubini's D major Symphony, I doubt you'll ever encounter a performance better played or recorded than this. Strongly recommended".

"The Lausanne Chamber Orchestra make a more full-bodied corporate sound than the period-instrument bands who would more commonly play this music nowadays, rounded out by recorded sound that is, to me, ideally warm and clear ... [Bengtsson's] soprano catches the MDG microphones with no less felicitous presence".