“…A solid case for Blech’s interesting if not ingenious opera is made by ist sole recording’s fine cast… a worthwhile rediscovery.”

**** Excellent Album

“… The entire cast, under Ward’s careful direction, is refreshingly artless and idiomatic, as if they have been singing this worthy rarity their whole lives…”

“An extremely valuable and well-presented first recording of a neglected work which by no means deserves its obscurity.”

Sound 9       Booklet 9       Repertoire 8.5       Interpretation 9

“… two hours of frank pleasure, with inspired orchestral preludes for each of the three acts (the horns are valiant in the initial opening), and an overall atmosphere which is not without evoking again the memory of the magic of Humperdinck, but also accents of Richard Strauss.”