baritone vocals [curio] Olivier Lallouette
bass vocals [achilla] Furio Zanasi
bassoon Lorenzo Alpert
bassoon Yves Bertin
booklet editor Sarah Fuller
booklet editor Winton Dean
cello Kristin Von Der Goltz
cello Nina Diehl
cello Werner Matzke
composed by Georg Friedrich Händel
contrabass Bernd Ehrhardt
contrabass Jean-Michel Forest
countertenor vocals [nireno] Dominique Visse
countertenor vocals [tolomeo] Derek Lee Ragin
directed by, harpsichord René Jacobs
edited by [montage] Franck Jaffrès
engineer [recording] Götz Bürki
engineer [recording] Werner Sträßer
ensemble Concerto Köln
flute Cordula Breuer
flute Eberhard Zummach
harp Heide Rosenzweig
harpsichord Alessandro De Marchi
harpsichord Gerald Hambitzer
horn Jan Schultsz
horn Kurt Holzer
horn Mischa Greull
horn Thomas Müller
libretto by Nicola Francesco Haym
liner notes Winton Dean
liner notes [french translation] Christian Girardin
liner notes [german translation] Liesel B. Sayre
lute Konrad Junghänel
mezzo-soprano vocals [cornelia] Bernarda Fink
mezzo-soprano vocals [giulio cesare] Jennifer Larmore
mezzo-soprano vocals [sesto] Marianne Rørholm
oboe Alison Gangler
oboe Lex Vos
oboe Michael Niesemann
oboe Wolfgang Dey
painting Cristofano Allori
photography by Alvaro Yañez
producer [direction artistique] Klaus L. Neumann
producer [direction artistique] Thomas Gallia
soprano vocals [cleopatra] Barbara Schlick
viola Aino Hildebrandt
viola Manfredo Kraemer
viola Rainer Ullreich
viola Stephan Sieben
viola da gamba Hartwig Groth
violin [1] Brian Dean
violin [1] Gabriele Nußberger
violin [1] Hedwig van der Linde
violin [1] Jörg Buschhaus
violin [1] Veronika Skuplik
violin [2] Andrea Keller
violin [2] Antje Keller
violin [2] Cynthia Romeo
violin [2] Helmut Hausberg
violin [2] Pablo Valetti
violin, concertmaster Werner Ehrhardt
Phonographic Copyright (p) Harmonia Mundi s.a.
Recorded At Deutschlandfunk Sendesaal
℗ 1991 Harmonia Mundi s.a.
Recorded: in July 1991 at Deutschlandfunk Sendesaal, Köln

3+1 CD
Time:
CD1: 72'57
CD2: 78'04
CD3: 75'56
CD4: 18'28
Track 4-4 only on CD

145 page booklet with complete texts in English, German & French

Coproduction with WDR and collaboration with Festival de Beaune and Fondation France Telecom
White outline WDR logo

Cover Picture: Allori, Cena die Cleopatra

Made in Germany
Barcode: 3149025047885
Label Code: LC 7045
SPARS Code: DDD
Price Code: HM 83x3
Other: HMC 901385 (Cat# CD1)
Other: HMC 901386 (Cat# CD2)
Other: HMC 901387 (Cat# CD3)
Other: HMC 901387bis (Cat# CD4)