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Hercules / George Frideric Handel ; [libretto, Thomas Broughton].
LIBRA Arc. 4231372 CD
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Sound recording
- Author/Creator:
- Handel, George Frideric, 1685-1759.
- Language:
- English
- French
- German
- Subjects (All):
- Operas.
- Heracles (Greek mythological character)--Drama.
- Heracles.
- Heracles (Greek mythological character).
- Hercules (Roman mythological character)--Drama.
- Hercules.
- Hercules (Roman mythological character).
- Genre:
- Drama.
- Sound recordings.
- Operas.
- Physical Description:
- 3 audio discs (153 min.) : digital, stereo ; 4 3/4 in.
- 4 3/4 in.
- Place of Publication:
- Hamburg : Archiv Produktion, [1988?]
- System Details:
- digital
- optical
- 1.4 m/s
- stereo
- digital recording
- Participant:
- Jennifer Smith, soprano ; Sarah Walker, Catherine Denley, mezzo-sopranos ; Anthony Rolfe Johnson, tenor ; John Tomlinson, Peter Savidge, basses ; Monteverdi Choir ; English Baroque Soloists (on period instruments) ; John Eliot Gardiner, conductor.
- Notes:
- Archiv Produktion: 423 137-2 (423 138-2--423 140-2).
- "A musical drama"--Container.
- Sung in English.
- Based on: The women of Trachis / Sophocles. Metamorphoses / Ovid.
- Pitch: a'=415 Hz.
- Edition recorded: Hrsg. v. Friedrich Chrysander. Leipzig : Breitkopf & Härtel, 1859. (Händel-Gesamtausgabe ; v. 4)
- Recorded Aug. [9-14], 1982, St. John's, Smith Square, London.
- "Recorded in collaboration with West German Radio (WDR), Cologne, on the occasion of the 1982 Göttingen Handel Festival"--Program notes booklet.
- Compact discs.
- Digital recording.
- Issued in 1983 on analog discs (2742 004).
- Program notes and synopsis by Winton Dean, and libretto, both with French and German translations (67 p. : ill.) laid in container.
- OCLC:
- 42529978
- Publisher Number:
- 2894231372
- 423 137-2 Archiv Produktion
- 423 138-2 Archiv Produktion
- 423 139-2 Archiv Produktion
- 423 140-2 Archiv Produktion
- 2742 004 Archiv Produktion
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