Nocturne - the Splendour Falls on Castle Walls
Hymn - Queen and Huntress Chaste and Fair
Sonnet - O Soft Embalmer of the Still Midnight
Britten: Serenade for Tenor, Horn and Strings - Les Illuminations - Nocturne
I. On a poet's lips I slept
Alexander Murray, Osian Ellis, Sir Peter Pears, William Waterhouse, Barry Tuckwell, London Symphony Orchestra, Roger Lord, Gervase de Peyer, Denis Blyth
II. Below the thunders of the upper deep
Denis Blyth, Osian Ellis, Alexander Murray, Gervase de Peyer, London Symphony Orchestra, Roger Lord, Barry Tuckwell, Sir Peter Pears, William Waterhouse
III. Encintured with a twine of leaves
Alexander Murray, Denis Blyth, London Symphony Orchestra, Gervase de Peyer, Sir Peter Pears, Osian Ellis, Roger Lord, Barry Tuckwell, William Waterhouse
IV. Midnight's bell goes ting, ting, ting
Sir Peter Pears, Osian Ellis, Alexander Murray, Gervase de Peyer, Denis Blyth, London Symphony Orchestra, Roger Lord, Barry Tuckwell, William Waterhouse
V. But that night when on my bed I lay
Osian Ellis, Barry Tuckwell, William Waterhouse, Alexander Murray, Denis Blyth, London Symphony Orchestra, Roger Lord, Sir Peter Pears, Gervase de Peyer
VI. She sleeps on soft, last breaths
Denis Blyth, London Symphony Orchestra, Osian Ellis, Alexander Murray, William Waterhouse, Barry Tuckwell, Roger Lord, Sir Peter Pears, Gervase de Peyer
VII. What is more gentle than a wind in summer?
Sir Peter Pears, Osian Ellis, Alexander Murray, Barry Tuckwell, William Waterhouse, London Symphony Orchestra, Roger Lord, Gervase de Peyer, Denis Blyth
VIII. When most I wink, then do mine eyes best see
Sir Peter Pears, Gervase de Peyer, Alexander Murray, London Symphony Orchestra, Roger Lord, Denis Blyth, Osian Ellis, Barry Tuckwell, William Waterhouse
Production
- Erik SmithProducer
- John CulshawProducer
- James WalkerProducer
- Gordon ParryRecording Engineer
- John CulshawRecording Engineer
- Kenneth WilkinsonRecording Engineer
- Alan ReeveBalance Engineer