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