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