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