Floyd crafted his own orchestral suite from Wuthering Heights as a companion piece to the premiere of his song cycle The Mystery. The composer assembled a twenty-two-minute symphonic poem form segments of the opening music, the love music of Cathy and Heathcliff, themes of the violent Hindley, the gentle, well-born Edgar and Isabella, and lifted intact the minuet and waltz from act 3.
In his program note, the composer wrote that he intended the suite as a symphonically integrated work, logical, balanced, and above all suggestive of the desolate moorland of northern England, rather than as a potpourri of the opera’s content.

— Thomas Holliday
Taken from Falling Up: the days
and nights of Carlisle Floyd