| 1 | Élan (album version)- recording engineer:
- Mikko Karmila and Tero Kinnunen
- miscellaneous support:
- Isobel Griffiths (task: contractor), Richard Ihnatowicz (task: music preparation) and Lucy Whalley (task: contractor)
- assistant engineer:
- Jeremy Murphy
- engineer:
- Mikko Karmila, Tero Kinnunen and Steve Price
- co-producer:
- Tero Kinnunen and Nightwish
- producer:
- Tuomas Holopainen
- mixer:
- Mikko Karmila
- acoustic guitar and bass guitar:
- Marko Hietala
- bass clarinet:
- David Fuest
- bass trombone:
- Andy Wood
- bassoon and contrabassoon:
- Julie Andrews
- bodhrán, bouzouki, low whistle and uilleann pipes:
- Troy Donockley
- cello:
- David Daniels, Paul Kegg, Martin Loveday, Frank Schaefer and Jonathan Williams
- clarinet [bb clarinet]:
- Nicholas Bucknall and David Fuest
- cor anglais and oboe:
- David Theodore
- double bass:
- Chris Laurence, Steve Mair and Richard Pryce
- drums (drum set):
- Kai Hahto and Jukka Nevalainen
- drums (drum set) [Performer]:
- Kai Hahto
- flute and piccolo:
- Andy Findon
- French horn:
- Nigel Black, Pip Eastop and Richard Watkins
- guitar:
- Emppu Vuorinen
- harp:
- Skaila Kanga
- keyboard and piano:
- Tuomas Holopainen
- percussion:
- Paul Clarvis, Gary Kettel, Frank Ricotti and Stephen Henderson
- tenor trombone:
- Mark Nightingale and Ed Tarrant
- timpani:
- Stephen Henderson
- trumpet:
- Philip Cobb, Mike Lovatt and Kate Moore
- tuba:
- Owen Slade
- viola:
- Rachel Bolt, Martin Humbey, Peter Lale, Andrew Parker and Bruce White
- violin:
- Mark Berrow, Emil Chakolov, Dermot Crehan, Peter Hanson, Jackie Hartley, Patrick Kiernan, Boguslaw Kostecki, Rita Manning, Jim McLeod, Perry Montague‐Mason, Steve Morris, Everton Nelson, Sonia Slany and Chris Tombling
- background vocals:
- Troy Donockley and Marko Hietala
- choir vocals:
- Metro Voices
- choir vocals [the children's choir]:
- The Young Musicians London
- lead vocals:
- Floor Jansen
- vocals:
- Troy Donockley, Marko Hietala and Floor Jansen
- conductor:
- James Shearman and Pip Williams
- chorus master:
- Jenny O’Grady and Lynda Richardson
- additional arranger:
- Ilona Opulska
- arranger:
- Troy Donockley, Kai Hahto, Marko Hietala, Tuomas Holopainen, Floor Jansen, Tero Kinnunen, Jukka Nevalainen, Nightwish and Emppu Vuorinen
- choir vocals arranger:
- Pip Williams
- orchestrator:
- Pip Williams
- additionally recorded at:
- Angel Recording Studios in Islington, London, England, United Kingdom
- recorded at:
- Angel Studios in Kingston upon Hull, England, United Kingdom, Hats Off Studios in Stonesfield, Oxfordshire, England, United Kingdom, Röskö in Kitee, Pohjois-Karjala, Finland (from 2014-08 until 2014-09) and Petrax in Päijät-Häme, Finland (in 2014-10)
- mixed at:
- Finnvox in Helsinki, Uusimaa, Finland (from 2014-10 until 2014-12)
- engineered at:
- Röskö in Kitee, Pohjois-Karjala, Finland
- recording of:
- Élan
- lyricist and composer:
- Tuomas Holopainen
- revised by:
- Petri Alanko
- publisher:
- Potoska Publishing, Sony/ATV Music Publishing (Germany) GmbH, Sony/ATV Music Publishing France and ソニー・ミュージックパブリッシング A事業部
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