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