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