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