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 John Woolrich ( ; born 1954 in Cirencester) is an English composer. Biography Woolrich has founded a group (the Composers Ensemble), a festival (Hoxton New Music Days), and has been composer in association with the Orchestra of St John's and th ...

. 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.’ (Tempo)

Selected list of songs

* Thomas Adès Life Story (Faber Music) *

Milton Babbitt Milton Byron Babbitt (May 10, 1916 – January 29, 2011) was an American composer, music theorist, mathematician, and teacher. He is particularly noted for his Serialism, serial and electronic music. Biography Babbitt was born in Philadelphia t ...

Quatrains * Simon Bainbridge A Song from Michelangelo (Musicsales) * Harrison Birtwistle Night (UniversalEdition/Boosey) * Harrison Birtwistle Tenebrae (Universal Edition/Boosey) * Harrison Birtwistle White and Light (Universal Edition/Boosey) * Gavin Bryars The Adnan Songbook No.5 (Schott) * Niccolo Castiglioni Vallis Clausa (Ricordi) * Aldo Clementi Wiegenlied (ESZ) *

Elvis Costello Declan Patrick MacManus Order of the British Empire, OBE (born 25 August 1954), known professionally as Elvis Costello, is an English singer-songwriter and record producer. He has won multiple awards in his career, including a Grammy Award in ...

The Trouble with Dreams * Franco Donatoni An angel within my heart (Ricordi) *

Detlev Glanert Detlev Glanert (born 6 September 1960) is a German opera composer, who has also composed numerous works for chamber and full orchestra, including three symphonies. Life Detlev Glanert was born in Hamburg in 1960. He came to music late, learnin ...

Contemplated by a Portrait of a Divine (Boosey) *

Vinko Globokar Vinko Globokar (born 7 July 1934) is a French-Slovenian avant-garde composer and trombonist. Globokar's music uses unconventional and extended techniques, places great emphasis on spontaneity and creativity, and often relies on improvisation. Hi ...

Letters (Ricordi) * Osvaldo Golijov Sarajevo * Lou Harrison Vestiunt Silve * Jonathan Harvey You (Faber Music) * James MacMillan Scots Song (Boosey) * Colin Matthews Cantata on the Death of Antony (Faber Music) * Nicholas Maw The Head of Orpheus (Faber Music) *

Dominic Muldowney Dominic Muldowney (born 19 July 1952 in Southampton) is a British composer. Biography Dominic Muldowney studied at the University of Southampton with Jonathan Harvey, at the University of York (with Bernard Rands and David Blake), and private ...

On Suicide (Faber Music) *

Olga Neuwirth Olga Neuwirth (born 4 August 1968 in Graz) is an Austrian classical composer, visual artist and author. She gained fame mainly through her operas and music theater works, which often deal with topical and decidedly political themes of identity, ...

The Cartographer Song (Boosey) *

Michael Nyman Michael Laurence Nyman, Order of the British Empire, CBE (born 23 March 1944) is an English composer, pianist, libretto, librettist, musicologist, and filmmaker. He is known for numerous film soundtrack, scores (many written during his length ...

Polish Love Song (Musicsales) * Tom Phillips Six of Hearts *

Poul Ruders Poul Ruders (born 27 March 1949) is a Danish composer. Life Born in Ringsted, Ruders trained as an organist, and studied orchestration with Karl Aage Rasmussen. Ruders's first compositions date from the mid-1960s. Ruders regards his own compositi ...

Alone (Musicsales) *

Kurt Schwertsik Kurt Schwertsik (born 25 June 1935) is an Austrian contemporary composer. He is known for creating the "Third Viennese School" and spreading contemporary classical music. Life Schwertsik was born in Vienna. A pupil of Joseph Marx and Karl Schisk ...

Das Herr weis was der wil (Boosey) *

Human Existence (Boosey) *

singt meine schwäne (Boosey) *

Peter Sculthorpe Peter Joshua Sculthorpe (29 April 1929 – 8 August 2014) was an Australian composer. Much of his music resulted from an interest in the music of countries neighboring Australia as well as from the impulse to bring together aspects of Aborigin ...

From Nourlangie (Faber) *

Salvatore Sciarrino Salvatore Sciarrino (born 4 April 1947) is an Italian composer of contemporary classical music. Described as "the best-known and most performed Italian composer" of the present day, his works include ''Quaderno di strada'' (2003) and ''La porta d ...

Due Risvegli e il Vento (Ricordi) * John Tavener The Child Lived (Musicsales) *

The Turkish Mouse (Faber Music)

Discography

* Thomas Adès Life Story Mary Carewe/Thomas Adès EMI Claron McFadden/Composers Ensemble/Thomas Adès EMI Dora Ohrenstein/Alan Kay/Michael Lowenstern/Jeremy McCoy Koch International *

Quatrains Tony Arnold, Charles Neidich and Ayako Oshima Bridge 9135 * Simon Bainbridge A Song from Michelangelo Mary Wiegold/Composers Ensemble/Dominic Muldowney NMCD003 *Sally Beamish Tuscan Lullaby Mary Wiegold/Composers Ensemble/Dominic Muldowney NMCD003 * David Bedford Even Now Mary Wiegold/Composers Ensemble/Dominic Muldowney NMCD003 * Harrison Birtwistle White and Light Claron McFadden/Nash Ensemble/Reinbert de Leeuw Teldec Classics 3984-26867-2 Christine Whittlesey/EIC/

Pierre Boulez Pierre Louis Joseph Boulez (; 26 March 1925 – 5 January 2016) was a French composer, conductor and writer, and the founder of several musical institutions. He was one of the dominant figures of post-war Western classical music. Born in Mont ...

DG 439 910-2 Mary Wiegold/Composers Ensemble/Dominic Muldowney NMCD003 *Harrison Birtwistle Tenebrae Claron McFadden/Nash Ensemble/Reinbert de Leeuw Teldec Classics 3984-26867-2 Christine Whittlesey/EIC/Pierre Boulez DG 439 910-2 *Harrison Birtwistle Night Claron McFadden/Nash Ensemble/Reinbert de Leeuw Teldec Classics 3984-26867-2 Christine Whittlesey/EIC/Pierre Boulez DG 439 910-2 * Gavin Bryars The Adnan Songbook No.5 Valdine Anderson/Gavin Bryars Ensemble Philips * Lou Harrison Vestiunt Silve Patrice Maginnis/The California Parallèlle Ensemble/Nicole Paiement Mode 122 * James MacMillan Scots Song Alison Smart/Katharine Durran Metier MSVCD92025 * Colin Matthews Cantata on the Death of Antony Mary Wiegold/Composers Ensemble/Dominic Muldowney NMCD003 *Colin Matthews

Strugnell's Haiku ''Strugnell's Haiku'' is a collection of three songs for voice and piano by the composer Colin Matthews, set to haiku poems by Jason Strugnell, an alter ego of the poet Wendy Cope. Texts The texts cover the angst of living in South London, the ...

Mary Wiegold/Composers Ensemble/Dominic Muldowney NMCD003 *

On Suicide Mary Wiegold/Composers Ensemble/Dominic Muldowney NMCD003 *

Bayan Northcott Bayan Peter Northcott (24 April 1940 – 13 December 2022) was an English music critic and composer. Biography Born in Harrow on the Hill (London), Northcott read English at Oxford University and received a Bachelor of Arts degree from Oxford i ...

The maidens came Mary Wiegold/Composers Ensemble/Dominic Muldowney NMCD003 *

Polish Song Mary Wiegold/Composers Ensemble/Dominic Muldowney NMCD003 * Tom Phillips Six of Hearts Mary Wiegold/Composers Ensemble/John Woolrich Largo 5138 * Tom Phillips Mine is the Life Song Mary Wiegold/

Mark van de Wiel Mark van de Wiel (born 1958, Northampton)Bio
at Philharmonia Orchestra. is an English clarinettist, ...

Largo 5138 *

From Nourlangie Margaret Schindler/Perihelion Artworks CD (AW032) *

Howard Skempton Howard While Skempton (born 31 October 1947) is an English composer, pianist, and accordionist. Since the late 1960s, when he helped to organise the Scratch Orchestra, he has been associated with the English school of experimental music. Skempt ...

How Slow the Wind Mary Wiegold/Composers Ensemble/Dominic Muldowney NMCD003 *Milan Slavicky Veni, Sancte Spiritus Lenka Skornickova/Mondschein Matous MK 0051-2 931 * John Tavener The Child Lived

Felicity Lott Dame Felicity Ann Emwhyla Lott, (born 8 May 1947) is an English soprano. Education Lott was born in Cheltenham, Gloucestershire. From her earliest years she was musical, having started studying piano at age 5. She also played violin and bega ...

/ Steven Isserlis RCA Victor 09026 68928 2 * Keith Tippett Sun- the Living Son Mary Wiegold/Composers Ensemble/ Keith Tippett NMCD003 *Jane Wells One to Another Mary Wiegold/Composers Ensemble/Peter Wiegold Metier: MSVCD92043 * Judith Weir The Romance of Count Arnaldos Mary Wiegold/Composers Ensemble/Dominic Muldowney NMCD003 *Philip Wilby Easter Wings Mary Wiegold/Composers Ensemble/Dominic Muldowney NMCD003 *

The Turkish Mouse Mary Wiegold/Composers Ensemble/Dominic Muldowney NMCD003

References

Bibliography

*Robert Adlington The Music of Harrison Birtwistle (Cambridge University Press 2006) *Jean-Yves Bosseur Tom Phillips- Sound of My Life (Delatour 2015) *Jonathan Cross Harrison Birtwistle: Man, Mind, Music (Faber 2000) *Michael Hall Harrison Birtwistle in Recent Years (Robson Books 1998) *Jane Manning The New Vocal Repertoire 2 (OUP Oxford 1998) {{Authority control Song books