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