Hebrew Melodies


Gelesen von 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)

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