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