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