Reviews of the CD

Composer Bernard J.Taylor has written Wuthering Heights: The Musical and it has been recorded by top singing stars.

By releasing the musical on CD and tape, the team behind the project are adopting a tactic which proved a winner for Andrew Lloyd Webber. His musicals Jesus Christ, Superstar and Evita were records before they were produced on stage and helped build up a bandwagon of success.

Cast as Heathcliff on the album and possibly in the stage version is Dave Willets, who found fame in Les Miserables. And singing the part of Cathy is opera star Lesley Garrett, a soprano from Doncaster who has scored triumphs with English National Opera but is dedicated to breaking down barriers.

Lesley’s new recording "Diva: A Soprano at the Movies," is high up in the classical record charts and in addition to her singing she is also well known for her glamorous appearance, which means that she is ideal visually as well as vocally for the part of the beautiful moors maiden Cathy.

Cathy, says Lesley Garrett, is a woman "tormented by her love of Heathcliff and the need she feels to spread her wings. She reflects the reality of other times, especially for women, as it was for the Brontës themselves. When they began to write they had to use a pseudonym and pretend to be a man."

Composer Bernard J Taylor saw Lesley singing at the 1990's Last Night of the Proms and decided then and there that she would be his ideal Cathy.