baritone vocals [second prisoner] Raymond Wolansky
bass vocals [don fernando] Franz Crass
bass vocals [don pizarro] Walter Berry
bass vocals [rocco] Gottlob Frick
chorus Philharmonia Chorus
chorus master Wilhelm Pitz
composed by Ludwig van Beethoven
conductor Otto Klemperer
libretto by Georg Friedrich Treitschke
libretto by Joseph Sonnleithner
liner notes Harold Rosenthal
liner notes William Mann
mezzo-soprano vocals [leonore] Christa Ludwig
orchestra Philharmonia Orchestra
photography by [cover] Angus McBean
repetiteur Heinrich Schmidt
soprano vocals [marzelline] Ingeborg Hallstein
tenor vocals [first prisoner] Kurt Wehofschitz
tenor vocals [florestan] Jon Vickers
tenor vocals [jaquino] Gerhard Unger
Record Company The Gramophone Co. Ltd.
Recorded At Kingsway Hall
1st Ed. Turquoise / Silver Stereo SAX, Stereophonic Gold Sticker on the front of the box.

Recorded February-March 1962

Equivalent mono issue is Columbia MS 843 / 33CX 1804-6

includes 8-page booklet on blue paper

Recording first published 1962

On booklet P902/168 H & S

For an extra charge a 44-page libretto was available, with German text and English translation by William Mann
Matrix / Runout: YAX 881 (stamped side A)
Matrix / Runout: YAX 882 (stamped side B)
Matrix / Runout: YAX 883 (stamped side C)
Matrix / Runout: YAX 884 (stamped side D)
Matrix / Runout: YAX 885 (stamped side E)
Matrix / Runout: YAX 886 (stamped side F)