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