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