art direction Lutz Bode
bass vocals [choir] Christopher Purves
bass vocals [choir] Donald Greig
bass vocals [choir] Mark Peterson
bass vocals [choir] Richard Wistreich
bass vocals [choir] Simon Birchall
bass vocals [choir] Simon Grant
bass vocals [choir] Stephen Alder
bass vocals [choir] Stephen Charlesworth
basso continuo, cello Jane Coe
basso continuo, harpsichord Trevor Pinnock
basso continuo, organ Ivor Bolton
bassoon Alastair Mitchell
bassoon Alberto Grazzi
booklet editor David Butchart
cello Christopher Poffley
cello Suki Towb
cello Timothy Kraemer
choir The English Concert Choir
composed by Georg Friedrich Händel
conductor Trevor Pinnock
contralto vocals [choir] Penny Vickers
contralto vocals [choir] Sandra Schulze
countertenor vocals [choir] Ashley Stafford
countertenor vocals [choir] Graeme Curry
countertenor vocals [choir] Jonathan Peter Kenny
countertenor vocals [choir] Nicholas Clapton
cover, painting Fra Angelico
double bass Amanda McNamara
double bass Peter McCarthy
edited by Ulrich Vette
engineer Hans-Peter Schweigmann
horn Anthony Halstead
horn Christian Rutherford
libretto by Charles Jennens
liner notes Carole Boudreault
liner notes Donald Burrows
liner notes [french translation] Carole Boudreault
liner notes [german translation] Horst Leuchtmann
liner notes [italian translation] Olimpio Cescatti
mezzo-soprano vocals [choir] Caroline Trevor
music consultant [keyboard advisor] Maurice Cochrane
oboe Anthony Robson
oboe Gail Hennessy
oboe Paul Goodwin
oboe Sophia McKenna
orchestra The English Concert
photography by [artist photos] Clive Barda
photography by [artist photos] Richard Holt
producer Dr. Andreas Holschneider
recording supervisor Dr. Gerd Ploebsch
soloist, alto vocals Michael Chance
soloist, bass vocals John Tomlinson
soloist, contralto vocals Anne Sofie Von Otter
soloist, soprano vocals Arleen Auger
soloist, tenor vocals Howard Crook
soprano vocals [choir] Alison Gough
soprano vocals [choir] Caroline Ashton
soprano vocals [choir] Deborah Roberts
soprano vocals [choir] Lucinda Houghton
soprano vocals [choir] Nicola Jenkin
soprano vocals [choir] Patricia Forbes
soprano vocals [choir] Rachel Platt
soprano vocals [choir] Sally Dunkley
soprano vocals [choir] Tessa Bonner
soprano vocals [choir] Twig Hall
tenor vocals [choir] Angus Smith
tenor vocals [choir] Nicolas Robertson
tenor vocals [choir] Paul Tindall
tenor vocals [choir] Peter Long
tenor vocals [choir] Philip Daggett
tenor vocals [choir] Philip Salmon
tenor vocals [choir] Simon Davies
timpani Robert Howes
trumpet Michael Harrison
trumpet Michael Laird
typography [typo design] Elke Neuß-Burghoff
viola Colin Kitching
viola Katherine Hart
viola Rupert Bawden
viola Trevor Jones
violin [1] Graham Cracknell
violin [1] Maurice Whitaker
violin [1] Miles Golding
violin [1] Pauline Nobes
violin [1] Simon Standage
violin [1] Susie Carpenter-Jacobs
violin [2] Alison Cracknell
violin [2] Frances Turner
violin [2] Marc Ashley Cooper
violin [2] Margaret Faultless
violin [2] Micaela Comberti
violin [2] Walter Reiter
Phonographic Copyright (p) Polydor International GmbH
Recorded At Abbey Road Studios
℗ 1988 Polydor International GmbH, Hamburg

Recording: London, Abbey Road Studios 1/1988

Cover: Painting by Fra Angelico (Detail), Church of San Domenico, Fiesole, Italy

20 page booklet with English, German, French and Italian notes and libretto

Printed in West Germany.
Barcode: 0 28942 76642 6
Label Code: LC 0113
SPARS Code: DDD