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