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