Notes: | Sony Classical: SM3K 34592 (35096--35098). Opera in three acts. Libretto by Aaron Hill, translated by Giacomo Rossi; based on Tasso's Gerusalemme liberata and other sources. Previously released. Program notes by the Jean-Claude Malgoire, in English, German, and French, with Italian translation, and libretto (48 pages : portrait) inserted in container. Ileana Cotrubas, Jeanette Scovotti, sopranos ; Carolyn Watkinson, mezzo-soprano ; Paul Esswood, Charles Brett, countertenors ; Ulrik Cold, bass ; Armand Arapian, Sophie Boulin, Nicole Leport, Marie-Françoise Jacquelin ; la Grande Écurie et la chambre du roy (on Baroque instruments) ; Jean-Claude Malgoire, conductor. Recorded May 19-23, 1977, in Notre Dame de Liban, Paris. Sung in Italian.
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