Oratorio in 3 parts.
Libretto by Gottfried van Swieten, based on Milton's Paradise lost.
"Performed ... with large-scale choral and orchestral forces as in its 1799 premiere"--Container.
Compact discs.
Program notes by David Wynn Jones & Paul McCreesh in English, German & French libretto in German, English & French inserted in container.
Recorded Oct. 2006 in Watford Colosseum, Watford, England.
Sung in English, rev. by McCreesh from the original underlay version given in the first publication of 1800 (see Notes, p. 12-13).