alto vocals [choir] Ashley Stafford
alto vocals [choir] Brian Gordon
alto vocals [choir] Christopher Robson
alto vocals [choir] Julian Clarkson
alto vocals [choir] Patrick Collin
alto vocals [choir] Richard Baker
bass vocals [choir] Charles Stewart
bass vocals [choir] Christopher Green
bass vocals [choir] Gordon Jones
bass vocals [choir] Richard Lloyd Morgan
bass vocals [choir] Richard Savage
bass vocals [choir] Simon Birchall
bassoon [continuo] Alastair Mitchell
cello Angela East
cello [continuo] Timothy Mason
choir The Monteverdi Choir
composed by Henry Purcell
design [typo] Elke Neuß-Burghoff
engineer [balance] Heinz Wildhagen
executive-producer Dr. Andreas Holschneider
harpsichord [continuo] Alastair Ross
liner notes Hans Walter Gabler
liner notes John Eliot Gardiner
liner notes Peter Holman
liner notes [french translation] Jacques Fournier
liner notes [german translation] Isabella Borinski
lute [continuo] Michael Lowe
oboe David Reichenberg
oboe Sophia McKenna
orchestra The English Baroque Soloists
painting [booklet cover] John Closterman
painting [cover] Sir Joseph Noel Paton
photography by Ruth Möller
recorder David Pugsley
recorder Rachel Beckett
recording supervisor Barbara Valentin
soprano vocals [choir] Daryl Grene
soprano vocals [choir] Elisabeth Priday
soprano vocals [choir] Gillian Fisher
soprano vocals [choir] Jean Knibbs
soprano vocals [choir] Lyn Parkyns
soprano vocals [choir] Suzanne Flowers
tenor vocals [choir] Andrew Murgatroyd
tenor vocals [choir] Colin Mair
tenor vocals [choir] John Hugh Thomas
tenor vocals [choir] Neil Lunt
tenor vocals [choir] Tony Sargant
tenor vocals [choir] William Pool
timpani Charles Fullbrook
trumpet Crispian Steele-Perkins
trumpet David Staff
viola Annette Isserlis
viola Jan Schlapp
viola Rosemary Nalden
violin Alison Bury
violin Bill Turnell
violin Desmond Heath
violin Hildburg Williams
violin Julie Miller
violin Nicola Cleminson
violin Roy Goodman
violin Roy Mowatt
violin, concertmistress Elizabeth Wilcock
violone [continuo] Amanda McNamara
Phonographic Copyright (p) Polydor International GmbH
Recorded At Stadthalle Göttingen
℗ 1982 Polydor International GmbH, Hamburg

Recorded at Stadthalle Göttingen 6/1981
Recorded in collaboration with West German Radio, Cologne, on the occasion of the Göttingen Händel Festival
DDD Digital Recording

Include 87 page booklet with notes and sung text in English, German and French
Cover Illustration: Painting by Sir Noel Paton, National Gallery of Scotland, Edinburgh
Cover Booklet: Painting by John Clostermann, National Portrait Gallery, London
Printed in West Germany by Gerhard Kaiser GmbH, Made in West Germany


Label Code: LC 0113
SPARS Code: DDD
Barcode: 0 28941 92212 0