art direction David Smart
baritone vocals [corista ii] José Fardilha
baritone vocals [corista i] Roberto Scaltriti
bass vocals [corista iii] Colin Campbell
bass vocals [pluto] Andrea Silvestrelli
bass vocals, baritone vocals [creonte] Ildebrando D'Arcangelo
bassoon Alastair Mitchell
bassoon Philip Turbett
booklet editor Anne Schneider
cello David Watkin
cello Helen Verney
cello Lynden Cranham
cello Susan Sheppard
choir The Academy Of Ancient Music Chorus
chorus, alto vocals Alex Gibson
chorus, alto vocals Caroline Stormer
chorus, alto vocals Frances Jellard
chorus, alto vocals Jennifer Higgins
chorus, alto vocals Joyce Jarvis
chorus, alto vocals Susanna Spicer
chorus, bass vocals Charles Pott
chorus, bass vocals Edward Caswell
chorus, bass vocals John Bernays
chorus, bass vocals Jonathan Brown
chorus, bass vocals Stephen Alder
chorus, bass vocals William Clements
chorus, soprano vocals Angela Kazimierczuk
chorus, soprano vocals Carol Hall
chorus, soprano vocals Emma Brain Gabbot
chorus, soprano vocals Jane Butler
chorus, soprano vocals Karen Woodhouse
chorus, soprano vocals Lisa Beckley
chorus, soprano vocals Philippa Hyde
chorus, soprano vocals Susan Bates
chorus, tenor vocals David Lowe
chorus, tenor vocals John Bowley
chorus, tenor vocals Jonathan Job
chorus, tenor vocals Michael Sanderson
chorus, tenor vocals Simon Davies
chorus, tenor vocals Toby Watkin
clarinet Antony Pay
clarinet Michael Harris
composed by Joseph Haydn
conductor Christopher Hogwood
double bass Amanda McNamara
double bass Judith Evans
edited by [recording editor] Timothy Bull
engineer [balance engineer] James Lock
engineer [balance engineer] Neil Hutchinson
engineer [location engineer] Graham Meek
engineer [location engineer] Philip Siney
executive-producer Chris Sayers
flute Guy Williams
flute Neil McLaren
fortepiano Alastair Ross
harp Helen Tunstall
horn Anthony Halstead
horn Christian Rutherford
horn Roger Montgomery
illustration [booklet p2 - joseph haydn] George Dance
libretto by Carlo Francesco Badini
liner notes Cecilia Bartoli
liner notes [booklet - english essay] H.C. Robbins Landon
liner notes [booklet - french article] Jean Dupart
liner notes [booklet - german article] Meike Lieser
liner notes [booklet - italian article] Quirino Principe
liner notes [libretto: english translation] Avril Bardoni
liner notes [libretto: french translation] Jean-Claude Poyet
liner notes [libretto: german translation] Claudia Jost
liner notes [text by cecilia bartoli - english translation] Decca
liner notes [text by cecilia bartoli - french translation] Jean-Claude Poyet
liner notes [text by cecilia bartoli - german translation] Anne Schneider
mezzo-soprano vocals [euridice, genio] Cecilia Bartoli
musical assistance [italian language coach] Silvana Bazzoni
oboe Frank de Bruine
oboe Lars Henriksson
oboe Michael Niesemann
orchestra The Academy Of Ancient Music
painting [booklet front] Giovanni Battista Tiepolo
photography by [booklet back: christopher hogwood] Lorenzo Agius
photography by [booklet front] The Bridgeman Art Library
photography by [booklet p10, p39, p41 - artists] Jean-Pierre Masclet
photography by [booklet p16 - artists] Vivianne Purdom
photography by [booklet p22 - artists] Lorenzo Agius
photography by [booklet p42 - artists] Studio Amati Bacciardi
photography by [slipcase: c. bartoli & u. heilmann] Jean-Pierre Masclet
producer Christopher Raeburn
repetiteur Jeff Cohen
soprano vocals [baccante] Angela Kazimierczuk
tenor vocals [corista iv] James Oxley
tenor vocals [orfeo] Uwe Heilmann
timpani Robert Howes
trombone Peter Thorley
trombone Susan Addison
trumpet David Blackadder
trumpet Phillip Bainbridge
viola Katherine Hart
viola Leon King
viola Lisa Cochrane
viola Marina Ascherson
viola Martin Kelly
viola Nicola Akeroyd
violin [ii] Claire Sansom
violin [ii] Fiona Duncan
violin [ii] Garry Clarke
violin [ii] Iona Davies
violin [ii] Jill Samuel
violin [ii] Joanna Parker
violin [ii] Marie Knight
violin [ii] Pauline Smith
violin [ii] Sue Briscoe
violin [ii] William Thorp
violin [i] Andrew Manze
violin [i] Brian Smith
violin [i] Catherine Ford
violin [i] Desmond Heath
violin [i] Jonathan Kahan
violin [i] Lucy Howard
violin [i] Marshall Marcus
violin [i] Nicolette Moonen
violin [i] Peter Lissauer
violin [i] Pierre Joubert
violin [i] Roy Mowatt
violin [i] Therese Timoney
Phonographic Copyright (p) The Decca Record Company Limited
Copyright (c) The Decca Record Company Limited
Recorded At Henry Wood Hall, London
Made By PMDC, Germany
℗ © 1997 The Decca Record Company Limited, London. Editions de l'Oiseaux-Lyre.
Recorded: Henry Wood Hall, London, December 1995, January / April 1996.
Made and printed in Germany. Total timing 124.26; CD1: 71.54 & CD2: 52.32
The Academy of Ancient Music on authentic instruments.

This release has been awarded with 'Prix de l'Académie Charles Gros'.
This recording was monitored on B&W Loudspeakers.

Booklet illustrations:
Front: 'Orpheus rescuing Euridice from the underworld' (detail) by Giovanni Battista Tiepolo (1696-1770);
Photo: Bridgeman Art Library, London.
Page 2: Joseph Haydn by G. Dance, 1794 (Photo: Lebrecht Collection).
Page 4: Title page from the score of Haydn's 'Orfeo Ed Euridice' (S.H. Haydn 1149);
from the Music Collection of the Austrian National Library.

The 108-page paperback booklet contains notes in English, German, French and Italian.
And beside the track-list it contains also several credits-lists and lots of photos.
It contains also the sung-texts (libretto) in original Italian and the translations in English, German and French.
The CD's are stored in a 2 CD chubby (fat) jewel case with black trays.
Together the large booklet and the 2 CD (fat) jewel case are placed in a reinforced cardboard slipcase with 1 open end.
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