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