L'amima Del Filosofo Ossia Orfeo Ed Euridice

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Album Info

Release Date: 1997

Label: L'Oiseau-Lyre

℗ © 1997 The Decca Record Company Limited, London. Editions de l'Oiseaux-Lyre.
Recorded: Henry Wood Hall, London, December 1995, January / April 1996.
Made and printed in Germany. Total timing 124.26; CD1: 71.54 & CD2: 52.32
The Academy of Ancient Music on authentic instruments.

This release has been awarded with 'Prix de l'Académie Charles Gros'.
This recording was monitored on B&W Loudspeakers.

Booklet illustrations:
Front: 'Orpheus rescuing Euridice from the underworld' (detail) by Giovanni Battista Tiepolo (1696-1770);
Photo: Bridgeman Art Library, London.
Page 2: Joseph Haydn by G. Dance, 1794 (Photo: Lebrecht Collection).
Page 4: Title page from the score of Haydn's 'Orfeo Ed Euridice' (S.H. Haydn 1149);
from the Music Collection of the Austrian National Library.

The 108-page paperback booklet contains notes in English, German, French and Italian.
And beside the track-list it contains also several credits-lists and lots of photos.
It contains also the sung-texts (libretto) in original Italian and the translations in English, German and French.
The CD's are stored in a 2 CD chubby (fat) jewel case with black trays.
Together the large booklet and the 2 CD (fat) jewel case are placed in a reinforced cardboard slipcase with 1 open end.