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