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