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