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