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Musica Oscura
baritone vocals Roy Hudd
bass viol Richard Boothby
bass viol Susanne Heinrich
bass viol, violin, voice Roderick Skeaping
bass vocals David Thomas
bass vocals Simon Grant
bassoon, voice Mike Brain
cittern, guitar, voice Robin Jeffrey
conductor Anthony Rooley
drums [kettle drums] Janos Keszei
engineer Robert Menzies
engineer [bbc recording engineer] Alison Carter
engineer [bbc recording engineer] Mike Lucock
engineer [bbc recording engineer] Paul Waton
engineer [bbc recording engineer] Rosamund Mason
engineer [bbc recording engineer] Tim Sturgeon
ensemble The City Waites
ensemble The Consort Of Musicke
tracks 1 ensemble The English Trumpet Virtuosi
ensemble The Purcell Simfony
harpsichord James Johnson
lute, theorbo Michael Fields
organ, harpsichord Alan Wilson
producer Anthony Rooley
producer Don Taylor
recorder Pamela Thorby
recorder Piers Adams
soprano vocals Emma Kirkby
soprano vocals Evelyn Tubb
soprano vocals, violin Lucie Skeaping
tenor vocals Andrew King
tenor vocals Joseph Cornwell
tenor vocals, cittern Douglas Wootton
trumpet Andrew Hoskins
trumpet Mark Hoskins
viola Katherine McGillivray
violin Catherine Mackintosh
violin Catherine Weiss
violone Alison Crum
voice actor Andrew King
voice actor Douglas Wootton
voice actor Joseph Cornwell
voice actor Lucie Skeaping
voice actor Simon Grant
voice actor [altisdora] Emma Kirkby
voice actor [ambrosio] Peter Woodward
voice actor [betterton] Roger Allam
voice actor [cardenio] David Thomas
voice actor [carrasco] Peter Czajkowski
voice actor [carrier] Ian Masters
voice actor [don quixote] Paul Scofield
voice actor [durfey] Bill Wallis
voice actor [host] Michael Tudor Barnes
voice actor [hostess] Kristin Milward
voice actor [housekeeper] Jilly Bond
voice actor [marcella] Evelyn Tubb
voice actor [purcell] Douglas Hodge
voice actor [sancho panza] Roy Hudd
voice actor [slave] Derek Waring
voice actor [the duke] Sam Dastor
Recorded At Maida Vale Studios
© Columns Musica Oscura 1995
A MUSICA OSCURA/BBC Radio 3 co-production
Recorded: BBC Maida Vale studios, March/April 1995
Total Time: 128:13 (CD1 57:58, CD2 70:15)
(A musical realised in the form of a theatre play interspersed with vocal and instrumental pieces.)
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