Herbert Handt (Orfeo), Judith Hellwig (Euridice), Alfred Poell (Creonte), Hedda Heusser (Genio), Walter Berry (Pluto), Richard Wadleigh (First Corista)
This was originally recorded in 1950 and was the recording premiere of the Haydn Society. The notes are by the late H C Robbins Landon who discovered the original manuscript of the work and regarded it as one of Haydn’s finest compositions.
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