Double Concerto: Orchestra I (harpsichord): Paul Dunkel, flute/piccolo; Douglas Hill, horn; Allan Dean, trumpet; John Swallow, trombone; Raymond DesRoches, Claire Heldrich, percussion; Jacob Glick, viola; Jeffrey Levine, contrabass. Orchestra II (piano): George Haas, oboe; Allen Blustine, clarinet/piccolo clarinet; Donald MacCourt, bassoon; Joseph Anderer, horn; Howard Van Hyning, Richard Fitz, percussion; Linda Quan, violin; Fred Sherry, cello

PRODUCTION CREDITS
Disc One
Tracks 1-2 Produced and engineered by Max Wilcox; Recorded August 1982 at RCA Studio A, New York City
Tracks 3-4 Produced by Teresa Sterne; Engineering and Musical Production: Max Wilcox; Recorded December 1987 at the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters, New York City; Digital Engineering: MacDonald Moore
Tracks 5-21 Produced and engineered by Max Wilcox; Recorded December 6, 1988 at the Manhattan Center, New York City
Track 22 Production and Musical Supervision by Marc J. Aubort and Joanna Nickrenz; Recorded April 2, 1980 at Ambassador Auditorium, Pasadena, California; Engineered by Elite Recordings, Inc. and Roger Mayer, Elektra Sound Recorders

Disc Two
Tracks 1-4 Coordinator: Teresa Sterne; Recorded August 1968 at Rutgers Presbyterian Church, New York City; Engineered by Marc J. Aubort
Track 5-7 Coordinator: Teresa Sterne; Recorded April 21-23, 1970 under the musical supervision of the composer; Engineered by Marc J. Aubort and Joanna Nickrenz; Mastered by Robert C. Ludwig
Track 8-10 Coordinator: Teresa Sterne; Recorded August 1968 at Rutgers Presbyterian Church, New York City, under the musical supervision of the composer; Engineered by Marc J. Aubort

Disc Three
Track 1 Executive Producer: Dr. Steven Paul; Recording Producer: Christopher Adler; Recorded July 1990 at Orchestra Hall, Chicago; Balance Engineer: Gregor Zielinsky; Recording Engineers: Klaus Behrens, Hans-Rudolf Muller; Post-Production and editing: Arend Prohmann
Track 2-10 Coordinator: Teresa Sterne; Recorded April 21-23, 1970 under the musical supervision of the composer; Engineered by Marc J. Aubort and Joanna Nickrenz; Mastered by Robert C. Ludwig
Tracks 11-17 Coordinator: Teresa Sterne; Commissioned by the Fromm Music Foundation; Recorded September 1973 by Phonag Studios, Lindau/Zurich, Switzerland, in cooperation with Elite Recordings, Inc., New York; Recording Directors: Helmuth Kolbe and Joanna Nickrenz; Engineered by Helmuth Kolbe and Robert Lattman

Disc Four
Track 1 Produced and engineered by Max Wilcox; Recorded August 1982 at RCA Studio A, New York City
Tracks 2-7 Produced by Oliver Knussen; Recorded November 5, 1984 at St. Luke’s Church, Hampstead, London; Engineered by Sally Groves and John Whiting; Digital editing: Bob Auger
Tracks 8-13 Produced by Oliver Knussen; Recorded February 29, 1984 at Rosslyn Hill Chapel, Hampstead, London; Engineered by Sally Groves and John Whiting; Digital editing: Bob Auger

Mastered by Robert C. Ludwig at Gateway Mastering, Portland, Maine

Texts for In Sleep, In Thunder from Collected Poems by Robert Lowell. Copyright © 2003 by Harriet Lowell and Sheridan Lowell. [Note the first poem is printed with the incorrect title “Dolphins.” The correct title is “Dolphin.” Lowell did write a poem called “Dolphins” but that is not the poem that Carter set.]

Design by Nathan Garland
Box cover photograph by Bill & Gwen Sloan

Recorded Sep 2002, salle Jean-Luois Barrault, Carré St Vincent, Scène Nationale d’Orléans, direction Claude Malric. Recording and editing: Alain Saget & Michel Brunault, France Blue Orléans. Piano: Yamaha CFIIIS no. 5860 300. Notes by Dominique Druhen & Elliott Carter

Timing: Piano Sonata (22:58)
Recorded November 1997, Ed Landreth Auditorium, Texas Christian University, Fort Worth, TX
Produced and Engineered by José Feghali

Recorded 1992, studios of Russian State Radio
Engineers: V. Ivanov, E. Shakhnazaryan
Notes by Dr. Hoyle Carpenter

Night Fantasies and Piano Sonata recorded in Holland, 1982 (reissue of Etcetera LP ETC 1008 [1983] and CD KTC 1008 [1988]). Piano: Steinway D
90+ and bonus track (Elliott Carter and Charles Rosen in conversation) recorded at Mastersound, Astoria, NY, Dec 1996. Piano for 90+: Hamburg Steinway provided by Mary Schwendeman.
Producers: Klaas A. Posthuma, David Starobin
Engineers: Klaas A. Posthuma, David Merrill
Notes by Charles Rosen

Timing: Piano Sonata (21:45)
Recorded in Mittagong, NSW, Australia

Timing: Piano Sonata (23:00)
Recorded 9-11 September 1991, Eglise Luthérienne Saint-Pierre, Paris
Notes by Noël Lee

Timing: Piano Sonata (25:00)
Recorded November-December 1989, Abbey Road Studio No. 1, London
Notes by Wilfrid Mellers

Timing: Piano Sonata (26:09)
John McCabe, piano
Recorded 3-11 September 1990, Rosslyn Hill Chapel, London
Notes by Calum MacDonald, John McCabe

Timings: The Minotaur (32:49), “Dust of Snow” (1:05), “The Rose Family” (1:07), Piano Sonata (11:31, 14:58)
The Minotaur: Recorded 6 December 1988, the Manhattan Center, New York, NY
Producer/Engineer: Max Wilcox
“Dust of Snow” and “The Rose Family”: Producer: Teresa Sterne
Engineer/Musical Production: Max Wilcox

Notes by Lloyd Schwartz

Timing: Piano Sonata (23:59)
Recorded at Bishop’s Gate Hall, London
Notes by Peter Urpeth

Also issued as Etcetera KTC1008 (CD, 1988).
Timings: Night Fantasies (20:58); Piano Sonata (23:07)
Recorded in Holland, 1982.
Producer and Engineer: Klaas A. Posthuma
Notes by Charles Rosen
Piano: Steinway D.

Recorded Aug, 1982, RCA Studio A, New York, NY.
Timings: Night Fantasies (22:18); Piano Sonata (26:28)
“Two omni-directional MK-2 Schoeps transformerless microphones were fed through two Valley People Trans-Amps (transformerless microphone Pre-Amps) to a Sony PCM 1600 Digital Recorder.”
​Piano: American Steinway.
Produced and Engineered by Max Wilcox. Engineer: David Satz.
Notes by Elliott Carter and Paul Jacobs.

Timing: Piano Sonata (26:07)
Recorded at the Pleshakov-Kaneko Music Institute, Palo Alto, CA
Notes by Evelinde Trenkner

Recorded in Copenhagen Dec 31, 1963 to Jan 4, 1964
Notes by Noël Lee

Timing: Piano Sonata (22:16)
Notes by Roger Kamien

Notes by Charles Rosen