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