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