The first known performance was at Josias Priest's girls' school in London in the spring of 1689.
Alan Blyth (Hutchinson & Co./Beaufort Books, Inc., 1983), Graham Sheffield (pp.
11–25) was one of the first authors to supply a comparative discography, praising, for period authenticity, the recordings by Cohen (1978) and Parrott (1981).
The Haïm recording (2004 in US) received a highly complimentary review from Allan Kozinn, saying it surpassed Parrott's 1981 production, the latter "[u]ntil now, the best".
Kozinn noted orchestration and vocal range innovations by Haïm, as well as strong major and minor cast members.