Mary Wiegold’s Songbook is a collection of songs for soprano[1] 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.[2]
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[3] (Faber Music)
- Milton Babbitt Quatrains[4]
- Simon Bainbridge A Song from Michelangelo (Musicsales)
- Harrison Birtwistle Night[5] (UniversalEdition/Boosey)
- Harrison Birtwistle Tenebrae (Universal Edition/Boosey)
- Harrison Birtwistle White and Light[6] (Universal Edition/Boosey)
- Gavin Bryars The Adnan Songbook No.5[7] (Schott)
- Niccolo Castiglioni Vallis Clausa (Ricordi)
- Aldo Clementi Wiegenlied (ESZ)
- Elvis Costello The Trouble with Dreams[8]
- 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[9]
- Jonathan Harvey You[10] (Faber Music)
- James MacMillan Scots Song (Boosey)
- Colin Matthews Cantata on the Death of Antony (Faber Music)
- Nicholas Maw The Head of Orpheus[11] (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[12]
- 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[13] (Faber)
- Salvatore Sciarrino Due Risvegli e il Vento (Ricordi)
- John Tavener The Child Lived (Musicsales)
- John Woolrich 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
- Milton Babbitt 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 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
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/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 Largo 5138
- Peter Sculthorpe From Nourlangie
Margaret Schindler/Perihelion Artworks CD (AW032)
- Howard Skempton 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/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
- John Woolrich The Turkish Mouse
Mary Wiegold/Composers Ensemble/Dominic Muldowney NMCD003
References
- ↑ ""a few words for a woman": gender and authorship in contemporary vocal composition". Sequenza.me.uk. Archived from the original on 2014-01-02. Retrieved 2014-01-07.
- ↑ Bayan Northcott (1994-01-08). "Arts: Flocking in on the wings of song: It started with the composer John Woolrich asking colleagues for a few songs. Now the 'Songbook' written for Mary Wiegold includes 150 items, with another 70 in the pipeline - all given free. Bayan Northcott reports on a collection that just grew - Music - Arts & Entertainment". The Independent. Archived from the original on January 23, 2014. Retrieved 2014-01-07.
- ↑ "Thomas Adès - Life Story". Thomasades.com. Retrieved 2014-01-07.
- ↑ "Classical Net Review - Babbitt - Quatrains, Manifold Music, My Ends are My Beginnings, Swan Song, etc". Classical.net. Retrieved 2014-01-07.
- ↑ "Sir Harrison Birtwistle – 3 Settings of Celan | for soprano, 2 clarinets, viola, violoncello and double bass – Work Introduction". Universal Edition. Retrieved 2014-01-07.
- ↑ Description by Seth Brodsky. "White and Light for soprano and 5 instruments - Harrison Birtwistle | Details, Parts / Movements and Recordings". AllMusic. Retrieved 2014-01-07.
- ↑ "Adnan_Songbook". Gavinbryars.com. Retrieved 2014-01-07.
- ↑ "Lies & Inventions". Elviscostello.com. Retrieved 2014-01-07.
- ↑ "Archived copy" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2012-09-01. Retrieved 2014-01-02.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link) - ↑ Harvey, Jonathan. "You - Chamber/Ensemble Works - Repertoire". Faber Music. Retrieved 2014-01-07.
- ↑ Maw, Nicholas (1992-11-20). "Head of Orpheus, The - Chamber/Ensemble Works - Repertoire". Faber Music. Retrieved 2014-01-07.
- ↑ "Six of Hearts: Songs for Mary Wiegold". Tom Phillips. Retrieved 2014-01-07.
- ↑ Sculthorpe, Peter. "From Nourlangie - Chamber/Ensemble Works - Repertoire". Faber Music. Retrieved 2014-01-07.
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)