Instruct: Classify Amazon reviews into positive or negative sentiment
Query: Great performances

La Venexiana continues to lead the way in the performance of Monteverdi's music, showing that great riches come from prolonged exposure to the music of a single composer: they are living and breathing not just the music itself, but the idiom. They tackle here what is probably the most compelling but also the most difficult of Monteverdi's books of madrigals with consummate ease, assurance and elegance, giving compelling readings particularly of the large scale pieces, Il Combattimento and Il ballo delle ingrate. The latter in particular is a lavishly orchestrated feast. The recorded quality is up Glossa's normal standards.This sets a real standard in the performance of Monteverdi's music and is by a long shot the best recording of the complete Eighth Book.