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