Britten: Serenade, Nocturne and Les Illuminations
Peter Pears (tenor), Barry Tuckwell (horn)
London Symphony Orchestra & English Chamber Orchestra, Benjamin Britten
Pears, as always, is the ideal interpreter, the composer a most efficient conductor, and the fiendishly difficult obbligato parts are played superbly. —
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Britten: Serenade for Tenor, Horn & Strings, Op. 31
- Barry Tuckwell (horn), Peter Pears (tenor)
- London Symphony Orchestra
- Benjamin Britten
- Recorded: 1963-05-24
- Recording Venue: Kingsway Hall, London
Prologue
Pastoral - The Day's Grown Old
Nocturne - The Splendour Falls on Castle Walls
Britten: Les illuminations, Op. 18
- Peter Pears (tenor)
- English Chamber Orchestra
- Benjamin Britten
- Recorded: 1966-12-20
- Recording Venue: Kingsway Hall, London
I. Fanfare
II. Villes
IIIa. Phrase
Britten: Nocturne, Op. 60 for tenor, obbligato instruments and strings
- Peter Pears (tenor), Barry Tuckwell (horn), Osian Ellis (harp), Denis Blyth (timpani), Roger Lord (cor anglais), Alexander Murray (flute), Gervase de Peyer (clarinet), William Waterhouse (bassoon)
- London Symphony Orchestra
- Benjamin Britten
- Recorded: 1959-09
- Recording Venue: Walthamstow Assembly Hall, London
1. "On A Poet's Lips I Slept"
2. "Below The Thunders Of The Upper Deep"
3. "Encintured With A Twine Of Leaves"