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