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