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.   

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Audio/Video Renditions of Poems

Another outstanding contemporary performer of Hopkins is Lance Pierson. He too has a CD, this time of some of the
lesser-known Hopkins poems, which can be purchased from his website at lpperformer@googlemail.com.

“The May Magnificat”
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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