Jack Gibbons's Brontë Music

A couple of recent YouTube videos with music inspired by the Brontës:

The pianist and composer Jack Gibbons's musical setting of Emily Brontë's Sleep Not:

Jack Gibbons song Sleep Not Op.19, a setting of words by Emily Brontë, composed in 2001 and sung by the soprano Ann Mackay accompanied by the composer (recorded in London in November 2003). The work is dedicated to the distinguished American author Edward Jablonski (1923-2004), who was especially fond of this song. The video is accompanied by the remarkable photographs of Julia Margaret Cameron (1815-1879).

Jack Gibbons has also composed some other Brontë-related songs: Beloved Again, I'll Not Weep and Shall Earth No More Inspire Thee (Emily Brontë) and Life (Charlotte Brontë).

And raevellion has uploaded a performance of Bernard Herrmann's aria I Have Dreamt from his Wuthering Heights opera:

March 11, 2009 Performance at Indiana Wesleyan University
Mezzo-soprano, Dr. Loralee Songer
Pianist, Mr. Douglas Singer

Categories: Music, Opera, Poetry, Wuthering Heights