Early Music Review nr. 110 (December 2005)

This CD might be a year late for the tricentenary celebrations, but it definitely deserves to be a great success: Les Muffatti are certainly a force to be reckoned with. This version of Muffat's Armonico Tributo has gone right to the top of my playlist. There's something about their playing that just had me singing and dancing along with every single movement on the disc. Yes, I know the music inside out, but they made it seem so fresh, so lively. Even the darker movements (long chains of suspensions over a Corellian walking bass) are broad rather than gloomy and never lacking direction. The great Passacaglia at the end is a triumph. I hope we'll get to hear lots more from Les Muffatti.

BC