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