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