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