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choir Kölner Rundfunkchor
choir RIAS-Kammerchor
choir Tölzer Knabenchor
chorus master [kölner rundfunkchor] Herbert Schernus
chorus master [rias-kammerchor] Uwe Gronostay
chorus master [tölzer knabenchor] Gerhard Schmidt-Gaden
co-producer Westdeutscher Rundfunk
composed by Carl Orff
conductor Herbert von Karajan
directed by [recording] Karl O. Koch
engineer [recording] Günter Hermanns
leader [chorführer kölner rundfunkchor] Josef Greindl
musical assistance [musical preparation] Gerhard Lenssen
orchestra Kölner Rundfunk-Sinfonie-Orchester
photography by Hildegard Steinmetz
photography by Siegfried Lauterwasser
producer Hans Hirsch
recording supervisor Hans Weber
set designer [scenery] Günther Schneider-Siemssen
stage manager [stage director], liner notes August Everding
viola Adelheid Glatt
viola Sarah Cunningham
viola Sigiswald Kuijken
viola Wieland Kuijken
Phonographic Copyright (p) Polydor International
Phonographic Copyright (p) Polydor International GmbH
Printed By Gerhard Kaiser GmbH
Recorded At Forum, Leverkusen
Pressed By Phonodisc GmbH
Lacquer Cut At Phonodisc GmbH
Published By B. Schott's Söhne
Cast of the Première at the Salzburg Festival in 1973.
Co-production with the WDR, Cologne
℗ 1974 Polydor International GmbH (on record), ℗ 1974 Polydor International (in booklet)
Runouts stamped with some characters rotated sideways
Gatefold cover with 10-page 12 booklet attached
German, English and French liner notes.
Made in Germany. Printed in Germany by Gerhard Kaiser GmbH, Essen

Information not on release:
Composed 1962 to 1972. Recorded at Leverkusen-Wiesdorf, Germany, 07/1973.
Rights Society: GEMA
Other: 4912 000 1243 26.74 O (Inner sleeve date code)
Matrix / Runout: 2530 432 = 3 S 1 3 20 (Runout side A variant 1)
Matrix / Runout: 2530 432 = 7 S2 320 (Runout side B variant 1)
Matrix / Runout: 2530 432 =5S2 3 20 ℗ 1974 320 (Runout side B variant 2)
Matrix / Runout: 2530 432 = 3 S 1 3 20 (Runout side A variant 2)
Matrix / Runout: 2530 432 = 3 S 1 3 20 2 Z (Runout side A variant 3)
Matrix / Runout: 2530 432 =5 S 2 (p) 1974 320 2Z (Runout side B variant 3)