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