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