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