François-Xavier Roth’s Les Siècles has captured people’s imagination with its exploration of the music of the late 19th and early 20th centuries. The French period ensemble’s ravishing Harmonia Mundi account of Ravel’s complete Daphnis et Chloé ballet won in the Orchestral category at last year’s Gramophone Awards, and it’s a recording that can be heard in full here. It was inevitable that Debussy would also be in the orchestra’s sights, and their 2018 album, Claude Debussy: Jeux, Nocturnes, Prélude à l’après midi d’un faune, is glorious. Gramophone’s Tim Ashley found Jeux wonderfully persuasive, and of the Nocturnes, he wrote, “‘Nuages’, with its mournful cor anglais and drifting textures, sounds very disconsolate here. ‘Fêtes’, all garish brilliance and light, is played with terrific agility. ‘Sirènes’, meanwhile, is exceptionally beautiful, even serene, in its warmth and depth.”