archlute Tom Finucane
bassoon Alastair Mitchell
bassoon Andrew Watts
bassoon Felix Warnock
bassoon Frances Eustace
bassoon Philip Turbett
choir The New College Oxford Choir
chorus master Edward Higginbottom
composed by Georg Friedrich Händel
conductor [direction] Christopher Hogwood
cover [booklet] Francis Kyte
cover, illustration [athalie chassée du temple] Charles-Antoine Coypel
double bass Amanda McNamara
double bass Barry Guy
engineer [sound engineer] John Pellowe
flute Lisa Beznosiuk
harpsichord Alastair Ross
horn [natural horn] Christian Rutherford
horn [natural horn] Crispian Steele-Perkins
horn [natural horn] David Staff
horn [natural horn] Julian Baker
liner notes Winton Dean
liner notes [libretto french translation] J. Barnabé
liner notes [libretto german translation] C. F. Crain
liner notes [traduction] Brigitte Pinaud
liner notes [Übersetzung] Gerd Uekermann
oboe Clare Shanks
oboe David Reichenberg
oboe Paul Goodwin
oboe Robin Canter
oboe Valerie Darke
orchestra The Academy Of Ancient Music
organ Paul Nicholson
photography by Clive Barda
photography by [christopher hogwood] Henry Grossman
producer Peter Wadland
recorder Rachel Beckett
recorder Rachel Brown
timpani Charles Fullbrook
viola Annette Isserlis
viola Jane Norman
viola Judith Tarling
viola Katherine Hart
viola Rosemary Nalden
viola Rupert Bawden
viola Simon Whistler
violin Brian Smith
violin Catherine Mackintosh
violin David Woodcock
violin Desmond Heath
violin Felicity Notariello
violin James Ellis
violin Jane Debenham
violin John Willison
violin Julie Miller
violin Marshall Marcus
violin Miles Golding
violin Nicholas Parker
violin Peter Fender
violin Stephen Jones
violin Susie Carpenter-Jacobs
violin William Thorp
violoncello Julie Lehwalder
violoncello Mark Caudle
violoncello Richard Webb
vocals [abner] David Thomas
vocals [athalia] Joan Sutherland
vocals [joad] James Bowman
vocals [joas] Aled Jones
vocals [josabeth] Emma Kirkby
vocals [mathan] Anthony Rolfe Johnson
Phonographic Copyright (p) The Decca Record Company Limited
Copyright (c) The Decca Record Company Limited
Made By PolyGram
Printed By Neef
Recorded At Church Of St. Jude-on-the-Hill, Hampstead
Recording location: St. Jude's Church, London May/June 1985
℗ © 1986 The Decca Record Company Limited, London


CD manufactured by PolyGram in Hanover, West Germany
Printed in West Germany by Neef, Wittingen
Made in West Germany

Includes 104-page booklet with essays, photographs and libretto, translated from English to French and German.

The tray back has Maurice Ravel (1875-1937) printed in a smaller type above George Frideric Handel (1685-1759) on the top left. No other mention of Ravel can be found in the release.

Editor's Note: Some tracks are divided into separate tracks as presented on disc sleeves or booklet, to manage multipart tracks. Track numeration is as printed or by using #.# convention.
Barcode: 0 28941 71262 2 (Text)
Barcode: 028941712622 (Scanned)
Label Code: LC 0171
Price Code: OH 2
SPARS Code: DDD
Matrix / Runout: 417 127-2 01 # (CD1)
Matrix / Runout: 417 128-2 01 # (CD2)