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