Multimedia

Audio and Video

Users will remember that the “Poems” section besides photographs contains in many cases links (via “hear this poem”) to other multimedia contributions.  But not all such contributions are tied to those specific poems. In this section we include readings either of poems not on the website (Lance Pierson’s “The May Magnificat”) or of a large selection of Hopkins’s work (Cyril Cusack’s album).  Also included are musical pieces associated either with Hopkinsian concepts (e.g. inscape) or again with poems or concepts not on the website.   

Audio/Video Renditions of Poems

A

Poem: “As kingfishers catch fire”
Reader: Tom O’Bedlam


B

Poem: “Binsey Poplars”
Reader: Monica Lee

C

Poem: “Carrion Comfort”
Reader: Hugh Schwartzberg
Notes: Read at The Poetry Foundation


D

E

F

Poem: “Felix Randal”
Reader: Meg Harrington


G

Poem: “God’s Grandeur”
Reader: Richard Austin
Notes: This rendition combines both audio and video, showing Austin reading “God’s Grandeur.” Video by Tim Wilson, see www.goldenecho.ca.

Poem: “God’s Grandeur”
Reader: Prince Charles

Poem: “God’s Grandeur”
Composer: Paul Kelly
Notes: A music interpretation of the Hopkins poem, written and performed by Paul Kelly


H

Poem: “Heaven Haven”
Reader: Samuel Barber

Poem: “Hurrahing in Harvest”
Performed by Richard Austin, Back to Beauty’s
Giver


I

Poem: “Inversnaid”
Reader: Tom O’Bedlam


J

K

L

M

N

Poem: “No worst there is none”
Performed by Richard Austin, Back to Beauty’s
Giver


O

P

Poem: “Peace”
Reader: Ivan Bootham


Poem: “Pied Beauty”
Performer: Andrew Harvey

Poem: “Pied Beauty”
Reader: Zaklog the Great


Q

R

Poem: “Ribblesdale”
Reader: Ivan Bootham


S

Poem: “Spelt from Sybil’s Leaves”
Reader: Ivan Bootham


Poem: “Spring”
Reader: Caitlin Fraser

Poem: “Spring”
Reader: Angela Janda

Poem: “Spring and Fall”
Reader: Tom O’Bedlam

Poem: “Spring and Fall: To a Young Child”
Composer: Natalie Merchant

Title: “Spring and Fall”
Composer: Ned Rorem

Poem: “Spring and Fall”
Performer: Lorcan MacMathuna


T

Poem: “That Nature is a Heraclitean Fire and of the Comfort of the Resurrection”
Reader: Adam Harvey

Poem: “The Blessed Virgin Compared to the Air We Breathe”
Reader: Jonathan Roumie


Poem: “The Habit of Perfection”
Reader: Jonathan Roumie


Poem: “The Lantern out of Doors”
Reader: Kat Sawyer

Poem: “The Leaden Echo and the Golden Echo”
Reader: Richard Burton

“The Leaden Echo and the Golden Echo”

Poem: “The Leaden Echo”
Composer: Leonid Desyatnikov



Poem: “The May Magnificat”
Performed by Lance Pierson


Poem: “The Windhover”
Reader: Matthew Higgins


“To R.B.”
Performed by Lance Pierson

Poem: “The Poetry of Gerard Manley Hopkins”
Reader: Cyril Cusack
Notes: Famous actors from an earlier generation have also recorded Hopkins poems. A 1958 recording by Cyril Cusack
where he reads 19 of Hopkins’s poems.

Original Music

Here are links to original musical compositions based on specific Hopkins poems or concepts.

Title: “Mesmerised”
Composer: Jacques Bank

Title: “A Nun Takes the Veil”
Composer: Samuel Barber

Title: “Ad Majorem Dei Gloriam (A.M.D.G.)”

Composer: Benjamin Britten
Performers: IU Contemporary Vocal Ensemble

Title: “Three Inscapes”

Composer: Douglas Lilburn
Movement: “Three Inscapes: I.—”

Title: “Three Inscapes”
Composer: Douglas Lilburn
Movement: “Three Inscapes: II.—”

Title: “Three Inscapes”
Composer: Douglas Lilburn
Movement: “Three Inscapes: III.—”

Title: “Symphony No. 2”
Composer: Anthony Milner

Title: “Nondum”
Composer: Benedict Sheehan
Notes: Performed by The Chamber Choir of St. Tikhon’s Monastery

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