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