Nocturne - the Splendour Falls on Castle Walls
Britten: Serenade for Tenor, Horn and Strings - Les Illuminations - Nocturne
Hymn - Queen and Huntress Chaste and Fair
Sonnet - O Soft Embalmer of the Still Midnight
I. On a poet's lips I slept
William Waterhouse, Osian Ellis, Denis Blyth, Alexander Murray, Gervase de Peyer, Sir Peter Pears, Roger Lord, Barry Tuckwell, London Symphony Orchestra
II. Below the thunders of the upper deep
William Waterhouse, Osian Ellis, Barry Tuckwell, Alexander Murray, Denis Blyth, London Symphony Orchestra, Gervase de Peyer, Sir Peter Pears, Roger Lord
III. Encintured with a twine of leaves
Barry Tuckwell, Osian Ellis, Gervase de Peyer, Alexander Murray, London Symphony Orchestra, Sir Peter Pears, Roger Lord, William Waterhouse, Denis Blyth
IV. Midnight's bell goes ting, ting, ting
Osian Ellis, London Symphony Orchestra, William Waterhouse, Alexander Murray, Denis Blyth, Barry Tuckwell, Gervase de Peyer, Sir Peter Pears, Roger Lord
V. But that night when on my bed I lay
William Waterhouse, Denis Blyth, Alexander Murray, Gervase de Peyer, Osian Ellis, Sir Peter Pears, Roger Lord, Barry Tuckwell, London Symphony Orchestra
VI. She sleeps on soft, last breaths
William Waterhouse, Denis Blyth, London Symphony Orchestra, Alexander Murray, Osian Ellis, Barry Tuckwell, Gervase de Peyer, Sir Peter Pears, Roger Lord
VII. What is more gentle than a wind in summer?
Sir Peter Pears, Roger Lord, London Symphony Orchestra, Denis Blyth, Barry Tuckwell, Alexander Murray, Gervase de Peyer, William Waterhouse, Osian Ellis
VIII. When most I wink, then do mine eyes best see
Denis Blyth, Osian Ellis, Sir Peter Pears, Roger Lord, Gervase de Peyer, London Symphony Orchestra, Barry Tuckwell, William Waterhouse, Alexander Murray
Production
- Erik SmithProducer
- John CulshawProducer
- James WalkerProducer
- Gordon ParryRecording Engineer
- John CulshawRecording Engineer
- Kenneth WilkinsonRecording Engineer
- Alan ReeveBalance Engineer