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