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