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