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