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