Jack Gibbons's Sleep Not

The composer and pianist Jack Gibbons has uploaded a video to youtube with his setting of Emily Brontë's poem 'Sleep Not':

Jack Gibbons' song 'Sleep Not', a setting of the words of Emily Brontë (1818-1848), sung here by the soprano Ann Mackay, accompanied by the composer (recorded in London in November 2003). The video also includes a selection of the remarkable and often disturbing photographic portraits taken by Victorian photographer Julia Margaret Cameron (1815-1879).

Other poems of the Brontës that the composer has set into music are:

Beloved Again (words by Emily Brontë) (c.4'30)
I'll Not Weep (words by Emily Brontë) (c.4'30) (there's an audio sample on the composer's website, but at the moment of publishing this post, the quality of sound was very low)
Life (words by Charlotte Brontë) (c.2')
Shall Earth No More Inspire Three (words by Emily Brontë) (c.3')

Categories: Music, Poetry