artwork [booklet] Gustav Böhm artwork [cover] Dan Long baritone vocals [kuligin] Jaroslav Souček bass vocals [dikoj] Dalibor Jedlička chorus Wiener Staatsopernchor chorus master Helmuth Froschauer co-producer Richard Beswick composed by Leoš Janáček conductor Sir Charles Mackerras design [booklet] Heather Payne engineer Colin Moorfoot engineer Jack Law engineer James Lock lacquer cut by G libretto by Vincenc Červinka libretto by [original play] Александр Николаевич Островский liner notes John Tyrrell liner notes Sir Charles Mackerras liner notes Zdeňka Podhajská mezzo-soprano vocals [a woman] Hedwig Drechsler mezzo-soprano vocals [glaša] Jitka Pavlová mezzo-soprano vocals [varvara] Libuše Márová orchestra Wiener Philharmoniker photography by E. M. Rydberg producer James Mallinson repetiteur Josef Čech soprano vocals [fekluša] Gertrude Jahn soprano vocals [katěrina kabanová (káťa)] Elisabeth Söderström soprano vocals [marfa kabanová (kabanicha)] Naděžda Kniplová tenor vocals [a bystander] Adolf Tomaschek tenor vocals [boris grigorjevič] Peter Dvorský tenor vocals [tichon ivanyč kabanov] Vladimír Krejčík tenor vocals [váňa kudrjáš] Zdeněk Švehla Recorded At Sofiensaal Printed By Record Graphics Limited Lacquer Cut At Decca Studios Pressed By Decca Record Co. Ltd., Pressing Plant, UK. Recorded December 1976 Includes 20-page booklet/libretto UK Decca black narrow band labels Labelography code: ED4 Other: 51D 1 (Side A & B labels) Other: 51D 2 (Side C & D labels) Matrix / Runout: ZAL 15277 (Side A label) Matrix / Runout: ZAL 15278 (Side B label) Matrix / Runout: ZAL 15279 (Side C label) Matrix / Runout: ZAL 15280 (Side D label) Matrix / Runout: ZAL-15277-1G CC (Side A runout, variant 1) Matrix / Runout: ZAL-15278-2G UK (Side B runout, variant 1) Matrix / Runout: ZAL-15279-1G CI (Side C runout, variant 1) Matrix / Runout: ZAL-15280-1G UN (Side D runout, variant 1) Matrix / Runout: ZAL-15277-2G 2B CM (Side A runout, variant 2) Matrix / Runout: ZAL-15278-1G 1 UI (Side B runout, variant 2) Matrix / Runout: ZAL-15279-1G 1 CI (Side C runout, variant 2) Matrix / Runout: ZAL-15280-1G 3C UN (Side D runout, variant 2)