appearance as the High Priest, his voice seeming miraculously untouched by time. Parry's high-voltage conducting, meanwhile, maintains the work's high emotional level throughout.'

The Sunday Times
'It’s a coup for Chandos to have secured the great Nicolai Gedda as the high priest. He’s 78 this year, but still sounds authoritative. Rebecca Evans and Diana Montague are as good as any international Ilia and Idamante, and Bruce Ford’s Idomeneo is probably the best around today in any language. His English diction is immaculate.'

Gramophone
'Bruce Ford makes an impressive Idomeneo, with regal grandeur as well as anguish conveyed in his shapely phrasing and his fine, clear line of tone. Diana Montague gives a strong and unaffected account of Idamate's music. The Ilia, Rebecca Evans, is especially moving in her Act 2 aria, 'Se il padre perdei', very expressively shaped...The tension underlying all Electra's music is well caught in Susan Patterson's singing, with 'D'Oreste, d'Aiace' powerfully done; but even in the more docile Act 2 aria it is conveyed in her handling of vibrato. It is quite a luxury to have Ryland Davies's model articulation in Arbace's recitatives, not to say Nicolai Gedda, in his late 70s, bringing ripe authority (and rather beautiful elderly tone) to the High Priest.