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