bassoon Christian Beuse
bassoon Petra Gamweger
booklet editor Sue Baxter
cello Antje Geusen
cello Jan Freiheit
cello Nicholas Selo
composed by Christoph Willibald Gluck
coordinator [production co-ordinator] Nicky Claydon
design, art direction Mark Millington
double bass Matthias Beltinger
double bass Michael Neuhaus
engineer [balance engineer] Jonathan Stokes
executive-producer Andrew Cornall
harpsichord, fortepiano [hammerflügel] Raphael Alpermann
horn Christoph Moinian
horn Oliver Kersken
illustration [all original libretto scores] Edizione Zatta
illustration [etching - page 43] Giovanni Battista Piranesi
leader Bernhard Forck
libretto by [all libretti by] Pietro Metastasio
liner notes [notes + libretti: english translation] Kenneth Chalmers
liner notes [notes + libretti: french translation] David Ylla-Somers
liner notes [notes + libretti: german translation] Gudrun Meier
liner notes [notes: italian] Claudio Osele
lute, guitar Björn Colell
management [product direction] Paul Moseley
mezzo-soprano vocals Cecilia Bartoli
music consultant Claudio Osele
oboe Eckehard Hering
oboe Xenia Löffler
orchestra Akademie Für Alte Musik Berlin
painting [c.w. gluck - page 0] Joseph-Siffred Duplessis
painting [il parnaso confuso - page 26] Johann Franz Greipel
painting [interior of the teatro di torre argentina, rome - page 54] Giovanni Paolo Pannini
painting [p. metastasio - page 5] Pompeo Batoni
photography by [cecilia bartoli] Simon Fowler
producer [recording producer] Christopher Raeburn
tracks 8 score editor [critical edition] Claudio Osele
timpani Martin Piechotta
trumpet Johannes Rauterberg
trumpet Ute Hartwich
viola Anja-Regine Graewel
viola Annette Geiger
viola Clemens Nußbaumer
viola Stephan Sieben
violin Barbara Paulsen
violin Bernhard Forck
violin Birgit Schnurpfeil
violin Dörte Wetzel
violin Erik Dorset
violin Georg Kallweit
violin Gudrun Engelhardt
violin Kerstin Erben
violin Stephan Mai
violin Thomas Graewe
violin Ulrike Kunze
violin Uta Peters
Phonographic Copyright (p) Decca Music Group Limited
Copyright (c) Decca Music Group Limited
Made By Universal M & L, UK
Recorded At Scoring Stage Berlin
Recorded By Scoring Stage Berlin
Edited At Classic Sound Ltd.
Very similar to Italian Arias, which is made by Universal M & L in Germany.

℗© 2001 Decca Music Group Limited, London, England. A Universal Music Company.
(www.universalclassics.com / www.ceciliabartolionline.com)
CD is made in Germany (printed on the back cover of the digibook and on disc label).
Printed in Germany / Imprimé en Allemagne. Made in Germany.

Contrary to what is printed on the back of the digibook and the disc label, the CD was pressed at UNIVERSAL M&L UK.

World premiere recording: Track 1, 2, 3, 4, 6, 8.
Recorded at Studios of the Deutsches Filmorchester Babelsberg, Berlin, 8 and 11-16 January 2001.
The Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin appears courtesy of Harmonia Mundi France.
The Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin on period instruments.

Released as a digibook with an attached CD-holder at the back and reinforced matte cardboard front and back (bound book).
The digibook contains 58-pages of notes in English, French, German and Italian plus a track, credits and score-list.
It also contains the sung-texts (libretti) in original Italian with translations into German, English and French.
And there are a lot of illustrations and photos in it as well.

Track 1 from: La Clemenza Di Tito - Vitellia
Track 2 from: Il ParnasoConfuso - Erato
Track 3 from: Ezio - Fulvia
Track 4 from: La Semiramide Riconosciuta - Ircano
Track 5 from: La Corona - Atalanta
Track 6 from: La Clemenza Di Tito - Vitellia
Track 7 from: La Clemenza Di Tito - Sesto
Track 8 from: Antigono - Berenice
Barcode: 028946724828 (Scan)
Barcode: 0 28946 72482 8 (Text)
Label Code: LC 00171
Matrix / Runout: 4672482 01 5
Matrix / Runout: MADE IN THE UK BY UNIVERSAL M&L (CD mould area)
Mastering SID Code: IFPI L135
Mould SID Code: IFPI 04C1 (Variant 1)
Mould SID Code: IFPI 04B6 (Variant 2)
SPARS Code: DDD
Rights Society: BIEM / MCPS
Price Code: D H (Suffix catalog# - boxed)