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
Osian Ellis, Alexander Murray, Gervase de Peyer, Barry Tuckwell, William Waterhouse, Denis Blyth, Sir Peter Pears, London Symphony Orchestra, Roger Lord
II. Below the thunders of the upper deep
Alexander Murray, William Waterhouse, Sir Peter Pears, London Symphony Orchestra, Roger Lord, Barry Tuckwell, Denis Blyth, Gervase de Peyer, Osian Ellis
III. Encintured with a twine of leaves
Alexander Murray, Barry Tuckwell, Roger Lord, Osian Ellis, Sir Peter Pears, London Symphony Orchestra, William Waterhouse, Gervase de Peyer, Denis Blyth
IV. Midnight's bell goes ting, ting, ting
Roger Lord, Osian Ellis, William Waterhouse, Denis Blyth, Alexander Murray, Barry Tuckwell, Sir Peter Pears, London Symphony Orchestra, Gervase de Peyer
V. But that night when on my bed I lay
William Waterhouse, Gervase de Peyer, Alexander Murray, Roger Lord, Barry Tuckwell, Osian Ellis, Denis Blyth, Sir Peter Pears, London Symphony Orchestra
VI. She sleeps on soft, last breaths
Barry Tuckwell, Alexander Murray, Gervase de Peyer, Roger Lord, William Waterhouse, Sir Peter Pears, London Symphony Orchestra, Denis Blyth, Osian Ellis
VII. What is more gentle than a wind in summer?
Gervase de Peyer, Roger Lord, Alexander Murray, Denis Blyth, Sir Peter Pears, London Symphony Orchestra, Osian Ellis, William Waterhouse, Barry Tuckwell
VIII. When most I wink, then do mine eyes best see
Alexander Murray, Denis Blyth, Roger Lord, Gervase de Peyer, Osian Ellis, Barry Tuckwell, Sir Peter Pears, London Symphony Orchestra, William Waterhouse
Production
- Erik SmithProducer
- John CulshawProducer
- James WalkerProducer
- Gordon ParryRecording Engineer
- John CulshawRecording Engineer
- Kenneth WilkinsonRecording Engineer
- Alan ReeveBalance Engineer