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