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