Nocturne - the Splendour Falls on Castle Walls
Hymn - Queen and Huntress Chaste and Fair
Sonnet - O Soft Embalmer of the Still Midnight
Britten: Serenade for Tenor, Horn and Strings - Les Illuminations - Nocturne
I. On a poet's lips I slept
Barry Tuckwell, William Waterhouse, Sir Peter Pears, Roger Lord, Alexander Murray, London Symphony Orchestra, Denis Blyth, Gervase de Peyer, Osian Ellis
II. Below the thunders of the upper deep
Denis Blyth, London Symphony Orchestra, Sir Peter Pears, Osian Ellis, William Waterhouse, Barry Tuckwell, Roger Lord, Alexander Murray, Gervase de Peyer
III. Encintured with a twine of leaves
Alexander Murray, Osian Ellis, Gervase de Peyer, Sir Peter Pears, London Symphony Orchestra, Barry Tuckwell, William Waterhouse, Roger Lord, Denis Blyth
IV. Midnight's bell goes ting, ting, ting
London Symphony Orchestra, Alexander Murray, Barry Tuckwell, William Waterhouse, Denis Blyth, Sir Peter Pears, Roger Lord, Gervase de Peyer, Osian Ellis
V. But that night when on my bed I lay
Osian Ellis, Sir Peter Pears, Roger Lord, Alexander Murray, Denis Blyth, Barry Tuckwell, William Waterhouse, London Symphony Orchestra, Gervase de Peyer
VI. She sleeps on soft, last breaths
Sir Peter Pears, Gervase de Peyer, Osian Ellis, Roger Lord, Alexander Murray, Barry Tuckwell, William Waterhouse, London Symphony Orchestra, Denis Blyth
VII. What is more gentle than a wind in summer?
Denis Blyth, Barry Tuckwell, Sir Peter Pears, Gervase de Peyer, London Symphony Orchestra, William Waterhouse, Alexander Murray, Osian Ellis, Roger Lord
VIII. When most I wink, then do mine eyes best see
Denis Blyth, London Symphony Orchestra, Gervase de Peyer, Roger Lord, Alexander Murray, Barry Tuckwell, William Waterhouse, Osian Ellis, Sir Peter Pears
Production
- Erik SmithProducer
- John CulshawProducer
- James WalkerProducer
- Gordon ParryRecording Engineer
- John CulshawRecording Engineer
- Kenneth WilkinsonRecording Engineer
- Alan ReeveBalance Engineer