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