Mary Wiegold's Songbook
Mary Wiegold’s Songbook is a collection of songs for soprano and, usually, an ensemble of two clarinets, viola, cello and double bass which were written at the invitation of the soprano Mary Wiegold and the composer John Woolrich. Around two hundred songs were collected, mostly written within a ten year period from the late 1980s.
The Songbook is ‘like a modern day codex- should nothing survive from the previous decade of British music save this, scholars would be able to form a reliable picture of the diverse compositional activity of those years.’
Selected list of songs
- Thomas Adès Life Story
- Milton Babbitt Quatrains
- Simon Bainbridge A Song from Michelangelo
- Harrison Birtwistle Night
- Harrison Birtwistle Tenebrae
- Harrison Birtwistle White and Light
- Gavin Bryars The Adnan Songbook No.5
- Niccolo Castiglioni Vallis Clausa
- Aldo Clementi Wiegenlied
- Elvis Costello The Trouble with Dreams
- Franco Donatoni An angel within my heart
- Detlev Glanert Contemplated by a Portrait of a Divine
- Vinko Globokar Letters
- Osvaldo Golijov Sarajevo
- Lou Harrison Vestiunt Silve
- Jonathan Harvey You
- James MacMillan Scots Song
- Roger Marsh Black Hair
- Colin Matthews Cantata on the Death of Antony
- Nicholas Maw The Head of Orpheus
- Dominic Muldowney On Suicide
- Olga Neuwirth The Cartographer Song
- Michael Nyman Polish Love Song
- Tom Phillips Six of Hearts
- Poul Ruders Alone
- Kurt Schwertsik Das Herr weis was der wil
- Kurt Schwertsik Human Existence
- Kurt Schwertsik singt meine schwäne
- Peter Sculthorpe From Nourlangie
- Salvatore Sciarrino Due Risvegli e il Vento
- John Tavener The Child Lived
- John Woolrich The Turkish Mouse
Discography
- Thomas Adès Life Story
Claron McFadden/Composers Ensemble/Thomas Adès EMI
Dora Ohrenstein/Alan Kay/Michael Lowenstern/Jeremy McCoy Koch International
- Milton Babbitt Quatrains
- Simon Bainbridge A Song from Michelangelo
- Sally Beamish Tuscan Lullaby
- David Bedford Even Now
- Harrison Birtwistle White and Light
Christine Whittlesey/EIC/Pierre Boulez DG 439 910-2
Mary Wiegold/Composers Ensemble/Dominic Muldowney NMCD003
- Harrison Birtwistle Tenebrae
Christine Whittlesey/EIC/Pierre Boulez DG 439 910-2
- Harrison Birtwistle Night
Christine Whittlesey/EIC/Pierre Boulez DG 439 910-2
- Gavin Bryars The Adnan Songbook No.5
- Lou Harrison Vestiunt Silve
- James MacMillan Scots Song
- Colin Matthews Cantata on the Death of Antony
- Colin Matthews Strugnell's Haiku
- Dominic Muldowney On Suicide
- Bayan Northcott The maidens came
- Michael Nyman Polish Song
- Tom Phillips Six of Hearts
- Tom Phillips Mine is the Life Song
- Peter Sculthorpe From Nourlangie
- Howard Skempton How Slow the Wind
- Milan Slavicky Veni, Sancte Spiritus
Matous MK 0051-2 931
- John Tavener The Child Lived
- Keith Tippett Sun- the Living Son
- Jane Wells One to Another
Metier: MSVCD92043
- Judith Weir The Romance of Count Arnaldos
- Philip Wilby Easter Wings
- John Woolrich The Turkish Mouse