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