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art direction Allen Weinberg
baritone vocals [elviro] Ulrich Studer
bass vocals [ariodate] Ulrik Cold
bassoon Claude Wassmer
bassoon Jean-Louis Fiat
choir Ensemble Vocal Jean Bridier
composed by Georg Friedrich Händel
conductor Jean-Claude Malgoire
contralto vocals [amastre] Ortrun Wenkel
countertenor vocals [arsamene] Paul Esswood
design [libretto design] Peter Nutter
engineer Georges Kisselhoff
engineer Mireille Landmann
harpsichord [continuo] Danièle Salzer
horn [natural horn] André Both
horn [natural horn] Michel Garcin-Marrou
liner notes Karl Dietrich Gräwe
liner notes Rodolfo Celletti
liner notes Winton Dean
liner notes [french translation: sung-texts] Jean-Claude Malgoire
liner notes [german translation: sung-texts] Rudolf Steglich
mezzo-soprano vocals [xerxes] Carolyn Watkinson
oboe Alain Ripoche
oboe Marc Ecochard
oboe Michel Henry
orchestra La Grande Ecurie Et La Chambre Du Roy
photography by Claude Gassian
producer Georges Kadar
recorder Bernard Huneau
recorder Jean-Claude Veilhan
soprano vocals [atalanta] Anne-Marie Rodde
soprano vocals [romilda] Barbara Hendricks
trumpet [natural trumpet] Jean-Pierre Canihac
viola Jean-Philippe Vasseur
viola Martin Sonneveld
violin Bernadette Charbonnier
violin Daniel Cuiller
violin Florence Malgoire
violin François Fernandez
violin Genette Foster
violin Gilbert Bezzina
violin Hazelle Miloradovich
violin Lars Brolin
violin Mireille Cardoze
violoncello David Simpson
violoncello Michel Malaprade
violoncello [continuo] Claire Giardelli
violone Jean-Louis Charbonnier
Recorded At Notre-Dame du Liban
Phonographic Copyright (p) CBS Disques
Phonographic Copyright (p) CBS Inc.
First Complete Recording / Premier Enregistrement Integral / Erste Gesamtaufnahme
Recorded in Notre Dame de Liban, Paris, March-April, 1979.
Front cover: Un Persan à Paris (Anon.); courtesy: Musée de Châalis.
Ⓟ1979 CBS Disques, CBS Inc. / Made in Germany (labels).

The 40-page booklet (size 12' by 12') contains notes in French, English, German and Italian.
Besides black and white photos it also contains the sung-texts (Libretti) in the same languages.
The booklet and the 3 LPs are stored in a luxurious fully laminated reinforced cardboard box.
Label Code: LC 0149
Rights Society: GEMA
Matrix / Runout: 76 845 A (Side A - label)
Matrix / Runout: 76 845 B (Side B - label)
Matrix / Runout: 76 846 A (Side C - label)
Matrix / Runout: 76 846 B (Side D - label)
Matrix / Runout: 76 847 A (Side E - label)
Matrix / Runout: 76 847 B (Side F - label)
Other: CB 293 (Boxed)
Other: 17 (Encircled)
Other: P.D. (Rights Information)
Other: 76 845 (Record 1 - catalog# - between parenthesis on label)
Other: 76 846 (Record 2 - catalog# - between parenthesis on label)
Other: 76 847 (Record 3 - catalog# - between parenthesis on label)
Other: M3 36 941 (Record 1, 2, 3 - alternate catalog# - Between parenthesis on label)
Matrix / Runout: CBS 76845-A2 D SST (Side A - runout stamped)
Matrix / Runout: CBS 76845-B2 D SST (Side B - runout stamped)
Matrix / Runout: CBS 76846-A D SST (Side C - runout stamped)
Matrix / Runout: CBS 76846-B2 D SST (Side D - runout stamped)
Matrix / Runout: CBS 76847-A D SST (Side E - runout stamped)
Matrix / Runout: CBS 76847-B D SST (Side F - runout stamped)
Matrix / Runout: SST (Side A, B, C, D, E, F - runout etched)