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