Nocturne for Tenor, Seven Obbligato Instruments and Strings op. 60 (1958)
Benjamin Britten, London Symphony Orchestra, Sir Peter Pears (Tenor), Osian Ellis (Harp), Alexander Murray (Flute), Gervase de Peyer (Clarinet), Roger Lord (Cor Anglais), Barry Tuckwell (Horn), William Waterhouse (Bassoon), Denis Blyth (Timpani)
1963, London, Kingsway Hall
- 03:231. On a poet's lips I slept
- 03:182. Below the thunders of the upper deep
- 02:123. Encintured with a twine of leaves
- 02:304. Midnight's bell goes ting, ting, ting, ting
- 03:035. But that night when on my bed I lay
- 04:316. She sleeps on soft, last breaths
- 03:287. What is more gentle than a wind in summer?
- 04:028. When most I wink, then do mine eyes best see
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