 He felt that the album was "timeless" despite its allusions to Renaissance music on "Mort d'Eurydice" and "Decors," with each track boasting an individual charm, and concluded that "Favre has created music of many layers that exists totally outside of any specific genre.By turns profound, exciting and overtly beautiful, "Fleuve" is art of the highest degree".Also writing for "Just About Jazz", John Kelman said