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