‘This superb complete recording was a salutary shock: the opera is a kind of masterpiece, bleak, passionate and inspired … Enthusiastically recommended’ (BBC Music Magazine Top 1000 CDs Guide) ‘Vividly atmospheric. Quite exceptional on all counts … I was quite bowled over [by] this delightful opera’ (Gramophone) ‘This delightful opera is not to be missed’ (The Penguin Guide to Compact Discs)