Compact discs.

Program notes by Bayan Northcott, vocal texts (with English translation of 10th work) inserted in container.

Recorded between Dec. 16, 2008 & Oct. 15, 2009.

The vocal works sung in English (principally) and French.

Sixteen compositions, 2002-2009

Title on program booklet: Music of Elliott Carter, volume 8

Horn concerto (Martin Owen, horn ; BBC Symphony Orchestra, Oliver Knussen, conductor) (10:32)

Mad regales : on poems of John Ashbery : for 6 solo voices (BBC Singers) (6:53)

Tintinnabulation : for 6 percussionists (New England Conservatory Percussion Ensemble ; Frank Epstein, conductor) (7:56)

Wind rose : for wind ensemble (BBCSO, Knussen) (6:09)

Sound fields : for string orchestra (7:19) (BBCSO, Knussen)

On conversing with Paradise (text excerpted from Cantos of Ezra Pound) (Leigh Melrose, baritone ; Birmingham Contemporary Music Group ; Knussen, conductor) (11:40)

Retracing (Peter Kolkay, bassoon) (1:32)

Clarinet quintet (Charles Neidich, clarinet ; Juilliard String Quartet) (13:57)

Figment V (Simon Boyar, marimba) (1:41)

La musique (text by Baudelaire) (Lucy Shelton, soprano) (2:28)

Retracing III (Jon Nelson , trumpet) (1:57)

Due duetti. I : Duettone (4:27) ; II : Duettino (4:14) (Rolf Schulte, violin ; Fred Sherry, cello)

Figment III (Donald Palma, double bass) (3:10)

Figment IV (Hsin-Yun Huang, viola) (3:06)

Poems of Louis Zukofsky (Lucy Shelton, soprano ; Neidich, clarinet) (13:44)

Retracing II (William Purvis, horn) (2:35) .

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Ashbery, John > Musical settings.

Pound, Ezra, 1885-1972 > Musical settings.

Baudelaire, Charles, 1821-1867 > Musical settings.

Zukofsky, Louis, 1904-1978 > Musical settings.

BBC Symphony Orchestra.

BBC Singers.

New England Conservatory Percussion Ensemble.

Birmingham Contemporary Music Group.

Juilliard String Quartet.