CD 1: Toccata ([1]), Prologo ([2]), Act 1 ([3]-[13]), Act 2 ([14]-[22]), 47'17
CD 2: Act 3 ([1]-[10]), Act 4 ([11]-[16]), Act 5 ([17]-[21]), 56'15
Tavener Consort:
La Musica | David Hurley (contertenor) |
Orfeo | Charles Daniels (tenor) |
Euridice | Faye Newton (soprano) |
Messagiera, Proserpina | Emily Van Evera (soprano) |
Speranza | Clare Wilkinson (mezzo-soprano) |
Caronte, Spirito infernale [4] | Curtis Streetman (bass) |
Plutone | Christopher Purves (bass) |
Apollo | Guy Pelc (baritone) |
Ninfa | Anna Dennis (soprano) |
Pastore [1] | Rodrigo del Pozo (high tenor) |
Pastore [2], Eco | Simon Wall (tenor) |
Pastore [3], Spirito infernale [1] | Gareth Morrell (tenor) |
Pastore [4], Spirito infernale [5] | Robert Macdonald (bass) |
Spirito infernale [2] | Richard Latham (baritone) |
Spirito infernale [3] | James Arthur (bass-baritone) |
Tavener Players (on period instruments):
Kirsty Whatley, harp
Stephen Devine, harpsichord, organ, regals
Silas Wollson, harpsichord, organ
Fred Jacobs, Jakob Lindberg, Linda Sayce, chitarrones
Oliver Webber, Hannah Tibell, violons, violas[, pochettes]
Wendi Kelly, viola
Christopher Suckling, small bass violin
Joseph Crouch, bass violin
Richard Boothby, Susanne Heinrich, great bass viols
William Hunt, contrabass viol
Uri Smilansky, recorder
Gawain Glenton, recorder, cornet
Jamie Savan, cornet
Adam Woolf, Abigail Newman, Susan Addison, trombones and trumpets
Stephen Saunders, Andrew Harwood-White, bass trombones
Russell Gilmour, David Staff, trumpets
Stephen Henderson, percussion
recording: July 23-28, 2012, Church of St. Michael & All Angels, Summertown, Oxford