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.’ (Tempo)

Selected list of songs

 * Thomas Adès		Life Story (Faber Music)
 * Milton Babbitt		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		The Trouble with Dreams
 * Franco Donatoni		An angel within my heart (Ricordi)
 * Detlev Glanert           Contemplated by a Portrait of a Divine (Boosey)
 * Vinko Globokar		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   On Suicide (Faber Music)
 * Olga Neuwirth		The Cartographer Song (Boosey)
 * Michael Nyman		Polish Love Song (Musicsales)
 * Tom Phillips Six of Hearts
 * Poul Ruders		Alone (Musicsales)
 * Kurt Schwertsik         Das Herr weis was der wil (Boosey)
 * Kurt Schwertsik         Human Existence (Boosey)
 * Kurt Schwertsik         singt meine schwäne (Boosey)
 * Peter Sculthorpe From Nourlangie (Faber)
 * Salvatore Sciarrino	Due Risvegli e il Vento (Ricordi)
 * John Tavener	The Child Lived (Musicsales)
 * John Woolrich            The Turkish Mouse (Faber Music)

Discography
Mary Carewe/Thomas Adès EMI
 * Thomas Adès		Life Story

Claron McFadden/Composers Ensemble/Thomas Adès EMI Dora Ohrenstein/Alan Kay/Michael Lowenstern/Jeremy McCoy  Koch International

Tony Arnold, Charles Neidich and Ayako Oshima Bridge 9135
 * Milton Babbitt		Quatrains

Mary Wiegold/Composers Ensemble/Dominic Muldowney NMCD003
 * 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

Claron McFadden/Nash Ensemble/Reinbert de Leeuw Teldec Classics 3984-26867-2
 * Harrison Birtwistle		White and Light

Christine Whittlesey/EIC/Pierre Boulez 	DG 439 910-2

Mary Wiegold/Composers Ensemble/Dominic Muldowney NMCD003

Claron McFadden/Nash Ensemble/Reinbert de Leeuw Teldec Classics 3984-26867-2
 * Harrison Birtwistle		Tenebrae

Christine Whittlesey/EIC/Pierre Boulez	DG 439 910-2

Claron McFadden/Nash Ensemble/Reinbert de Leeuw Teldec Classics 3984-26867-2
 * Harrison Birtwistle		Night

Christine Whittlesey/EIC/Pierre Boulez	DG 439 910-2

Valdine Anderson/Gavin Bryars Ensemble Philips
 * Gavin Bryars   The Adnan Songbook No.5

Patrice Maginnis/The California Parallèlle Ensemble/Nicole Paiement Mode 122
 * Lou Harrison   Vestiunt Silve

Alison Smart/Katharine Durran Metier MSVCD92025
 * James MacMillan  Scots Song

Mary Wiegold/Composers Ensemble/Dominic Muldowney NMCD003
 * Colin Matthews		Cantata on the Death of Antony

Mary Wiegold/Composers Ensemble/Dominic Muldowney NMCD003
 * Colin Matthews		Strugnell's Haiku

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

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

Mary Wiegold/Composers Ensemble/Dominic Muldowney NMCD003
 * Michael Nyman		Polish Song

Mary Wiegold/Composers Ensemble/John Woolrich	 Largo 5138
 * Tom Phillips		Six of Hearts

Mary Wiegold/Mark van de Wiel		Largo 5138
 * Tom Phillips		Mine is the Life Song

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

Mary Wiegold/Composers Ensemble/Dominic Muldowney NMCD003
 * Howard Skempton 	How Slow the Wind

Lenka Skornickova/Mondschein Matous MK 0051-2 931
 * Milan Slavicky		Veni, Sancte Spiritus

Felicity Lott/Steven Isserlis RCA Victor 09026 68928 2
 * John Tavener The Child Lived

Mary Wiegold/Composers Ensemble/Keith Tippett NMCD003
 * Keith Tippett		Sun- the Living Son

Mary Wiegold/Composers Ensemble/Peter Wiegold Metier: MSVCD92043
 * Jane Wells			One to Another

Mary Wiegold/Composers Ensemble/Dominic Muldowney NMCD003
 * 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
 * John Woolrich		The Turkish Mouse