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