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