Bernard Herrmann's Brontës and a guitar

Bernard Herrmann is Composer of the Week in BBC Radio 3. Today's programme covers his soundtrack for Jane Eyre 1944 and his Wuthering Heights opera:

Composer of the Week: Bernard Herrmann (1911-1975)
Episode 3
September 9 12:00 on BBC Radio 3

Donald Macleod explores the life and work of Bernard Herrmann, concentrating on the impact Great Britain's writers, culture and landscape had on the composer. He was a self-confessed Anglophile and numerous trips to England resulted in several important projects, including one of his most ambitious - an adaptation of Emily Bronte's novel Wuthering Heights.

Includes:

Rochester, Rochester's Past, the Fire, Duo - the Door, The Wedding - The Wife (Jane Eyre)
Slovak Radio Symphony Orchestra
Adriano (conductor)
Naxos 8.223535 Trs 8, 10, 11, 18

Nelly will you keep a secret... Isn't that Heathcliff? (Wuthering Heights, Act 2)
Catherine Earnshaw Morag Beaton (soprano)
Nelly Linton Elizabeth Bainbridge (mezzo-soprano)
Joseph Michael Rippon (bass)
Pro Arte Orchestra
Bernard Herrmann (conductor)
UKCD 2050/51/52 CD2 Trs 6, 7, 8

Another Brontë-related new music release can be found on You Must Remember This Too: Classic Film Music Arraged for Guitar. In this case a guitar arrangement of Alfred Newman's main theme for Wuthering Heights 1939:

BUYSOUNDTRAX Records
YOU MUST REMEMBER THIS TOO: CLASSIC FILM MUSIC ARRANGED FOR GUITAR

The album features music composed for motion pictures by Ernest Gold, Alfred Newman, Erich Wolfgang Korngold, Miklós Rózsa, Bernard Herrmann, Angela Morley and Dimitri Tiomkin, arranged for guitar by Gregg Nestor, performed by Gregg Nestor and William Kanengiser, augmented by Francisco Castillo on Oboe , Jessica Pierce on Flute, Kevan Torfeh on Cello, David McKelvy on Harmonica and Anna Bartos, Soprano.

3. Wuthering Heights 2:32

Categories: Jane Eyre, Music, Opera, Wuthering Heights