Hebrew Melodies


Read by 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)

Chapters

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