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