tracks 3-1 to 3-7 baritone vocals [bass-baritone] John Shirley-Quirk
tracks 4-1 to 4-6 bass vocals Siegmund Nimsgern
booklet editor [for wlp ltd] Mark Pappenheim
tracks 5-9 to 5-29 cello Lynn Harrell
tracks 2-1 to 2-11, 4-1 to 4-6 choir BBC Singers
tracks 5-9 to 5-29 clarinet [clarinets] Antony Pay
composed by Arnold Schoenberg
conductor Pierre Boulez
design [for wlp ltd], art direction [for wlp ltd] Michael Walters
tracks 1-1 to 1-4 engineer [recording] Andreas Stange
tracks 1-5 engineer [recording] Didier Arditi
tracks 5-9 to 5-29 flute, piccolo flute Michel Debost
liner notes Malcolm Hayes
liner notes Mark Pappenheim
liner notes [french translation] David Ylla-Somers
liner notes [german translation] Christiane Frobenius
tracks 5-9 to 5-29 lyrics by [text after] Albert Giraud
tracks 3-1 to 3-7 lyrics by [text after] Francesco Petrarca
tracks 3-13 lyrics by [text after] George Gordon Byron
tracks 5-30 lyrics by [text after] Jens Peter Jacobsen
tracks 2-1 to 2-11, 4-1 to 4-6 lyrics by [text] Arnold Schoenberg
tracks 5-1 to 5-8 lyrics by [text] Marie Pappenheim
tracks 5-30 lyrics by [text] Robert Franz Arnold
tracks 3-13 narrator [reciter] David Wilson-Johnson
tracks 5-9 to 5-29 narrator [reciter] Yvonne Minton
tracks 2-1 to 2-11, 2-13, 3-8 to 3-12, 4-1 to 4-18, 5-1 to 5-8 orchestra BBC Symphony Orchestra
tracks 1-1 to 1-8, 2-12, 3-1 to 3-7, 3-13, 5-30 orchestra Ensemble Intercontemporain
tracks 4-19 to 4-23 orchestra New York Philharmonic
tracks 2-1 to 2-11 orchestrated by Winfried Zillig
photography by [cover] Marion Kalter
photography by [cover] akg-images
tracks 5-9 to 5-29 piano Daniel Barenboim
tracks 4-19 to 4-23 producer [recording] Andrew Kazdin
tracks 1-1 to 1-5, 2-1 to 2-13, 3-1 to 3-7 producer [recording] Georges Kadar
tracks 4-1 to 4-18, 5-1 to 5-8, 5-30 producer [recording] Paul Myers
tracks 1-6 to 1-8, 3-8 to 3-13, 5-9 to 5-29 producer [recording] Roy Emerson
tracks 5-1 to 5-8 soprano vocals Janis Martin
tracks 5-30 soprano vocals Jessye Norman
tracks 5-9 to 5-29 violin, viola Pinchas Zukerman
tracks 2-1 to 2-11 vocals [der auserwählte] John Shirley-Quirk
tracks 2-1 to 2-11 vocals [der mönch] Anthony Rolfe Johnson
tracks 2-1 to 2-11 vocals [der sterbende] Ortrun Wenkel
tracks 2-1 to 2-11 vocals [die seele] Mady Mesplé
tracks 2-1 to 2-11 vocals [ein aufrührerischer] Ian Partridge
tracks 2-1 to 2-11 vocals [ein berufener] Kenneth Bowen
tracks 2-1 to 2-11 vocals [ein ringender] Paul Hudson
tracks 2-1 to 2-11 vocals [gabriel] Siegmund Nimsgern
Recorded At Columbia 30th Street Studio
Recorded At EMI Studios
Recorded At Notre-Dame Du Liban
Recorded At Studios IRCAM
Recorded At Henry Wood Hall, London
Phonographic Copyright (p) Sony Music Entertainment
Copyright (c) Sony Music Entertainment
Distributed By Sony Music Entertainment
© 2009 Sony Music Entertainment. Compilation ℗ 2009 Sony Music Entertainment / ℗ 1978, 1979, 1980, 1982 Sony Music Entertainment.
Distributed by Sony Music Entertainment.
Introductory notes and translations © 2009 Sony Music Entertainment.
Made in the EU.

Recorded at: 30th Street Studio, New York City, 24 September 1973 (tracks 4-19 to 4-23); EMI Studios, London 9 February 1976 (track 2-13), 23 September 1976 (tracks 3-8 to 3-12, 4-7 to 4-18); London, 14 & 15 April 1977 (tracks 5-1 to 5-8); Église du Liban, Paris, 20 & 21 June 1977 (tracks 5-9 to 5-29); IRCAM, Paris, 10 April 1979 (tracks 3-1 to 3-7), 15 September 1979 (track 5-30), 31 March 1980 (track 3-13), 1 April 1980 (tracks 2-1 to 2-11), 14 June 1982 (tracks 1-1 to 1-4), 6 November 1983 (track 1-5), dates unknown (tracks 1-6 to 1-8, 2-12); Henry Wood Hall, London, 12 March 1981 (tracks 4-1 to 4-6).

Publishers: Universal Edition (Europe)/Belmont Music Publishers (CD1, 3-13, CD4, 5-1 to 5-8, 5-30); Belmont Music Publishers (2-1 to 2-12); C.F. Peters Corporation, New York (2-13, 3-8 to 3-12); G. Schirmer, Inc. (3-1 to 3-7).

Total timing: 5h 45'54
- CD1: 60.57
- CD2: 75.13
- CD3: 65.24
- CD4: 68.33
- CD5: 75.47

Includes a 32-page booklet in English, French & German.

Barcode: 8 86975 62522 2
Barcode: 886975625222 (Scanned)
Label Code: LC 06868
Rights Society: GEMA/BIEM
SPARS Code: ADD/DDD