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