Hebrew Melodies


Lu par Alan Mapstone

Byron wrote the Hebrew Melodies to accompany music by the composer Isaac Nathan which he claimed derived from Synagogue tunes used at the time of the Temple in Jerusalem, although it is likely that most of the music was from more recent European sources. While some of the poems are based on stories from the Book of Job most have no specific religious or Hebrew connotations.

The poems were widely admired, influencing works by Heine and Lermontov and being set to music by composers including Mendelssohn, Schumann and Mussorgsky.

(Summary by Alan Mapstone) (0 hr 44 min)

Chapitres

She Walks in Beauty 1:55 Lu par Alan Mapstone
The Harp the Monarch Minstrel Swept 1:40 Lu par Alan Mapstone
If That High World 1:22 Lu par Alan Mapstone
The Wild Gazelle 1:48 Lu par Alan Mapstone
Oh! Weep for Those 1:23 Lu par Alan Mapstone
On Jordan's Banks 1:28 Lu par Alan Mapstone
Jephtha's Daughter 1:51 Lu par Alan Mapstone
Oh! Snatched Away in Beauty's Bloom 1:34 Lu par Alan Mapstone
My Soul is Dark 1:26 Lu par Alan Mapstone
I Saw Thee Weep 1:18 Lu par Alan Mapstone
Thy Days are Done 1:25 Lu par Alan Mapstone
It is the Hour 1:18 Lu par Alan Mapstone
Song of Saul Before his Last Battle 1:17 Lu par Alan Mapstone
Saul 2:31 Lu par Alan Mapstone
"All is Vanity saith the Preacher" 1:49 Lu par Alan Mapstone
When Coldness Wraps 2:34 Lu par Alan Mapstone
Vision of Belshazzar 2:54 Lu par Alan Mapstone
Sun of the Sleepless 1:03 Lu par Alan Mapstone
Were my Bosom as False as Thou Deem'st It to Be 1:23 Lu par Alan Mapstone
Herod's Lament for Mariamne 2:09 Lu par Alan Mapstone
On the Day of the Destruction of Jerusalem by Titus 2:17 Lu par Alan Mapstone
By the Rivers of Babylon we Sat Down and Wept 1:26 Lu par Alan Mapstone
The Destruction of Semnacherib 2:20 Lu par Alan Mapstone
From Job 1:24 Lu par Alan Mapstone
Lines on the Death of Sir Peter Parker, Bart. 2:56 Lu par Alan Mapstone