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

Mary Carewe/Thomas Adès EMI
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
Mary Wiegold/Composers Ensemble/Dominic Muldowney NMCD003
Mary Wiegold/Composers Ensemble/Dominic Muldowney NMCD003
Mary Wiegold/Composers Ensemble/Dominic Muldowney NMCD003
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
Claron McFadden/Nash Ensemble/Reinbert de Leeuw Teldec Classics 3984-26867-2
Christine Whittlesey/EIC/Pierre Boulez DG 439 910-2
Claron McFadden/Nash Ensemble/Reinbert de Leeuw Teldec Classics 3984-26867-2
Christine Whittlesey/EIC/Pierre Boulez DG 439 910-2
Valdine Anderson/Gavin Bryars Ensemble Philips
Patrice Maginnis/The California Parallèlle Ensemble/Nicole Paiement Mode 122
Alison Smart/Katharine Durran Metier MSVCD92025
Mary Wiegold/Composers Ensemble/Dominic Muldowney NMCD003
Mary Wiegold/Composers Ensemble/Dominic Muldowney NMCD003
Mary Wiegold/Composers Ensemble/Dominic Muldowney NMCD003
Mary Wiegold/Composers Ensemble/Dominic Muldowney NMCD003
Mary Wiegold/Composers Ensemble/Dominic Muldowney NMCD003
Mary Wiegold/Composers Ensemble/John Woolrich Largo 5138
Mary Wiegold/Mark van de Wiel Largo 5138
Margaret Schindler/Perihelion Artworks CD
Mary Wiegold/Composers Ensemble/Dominic Muldowney NMCD003
Lenka Skornickova/Mondschein
Matous MK 0051-2 931
Felicity Lott/Steven Isserlis RCA Victor 09026 68928 2
Mary Wiegold/Composers Ensemble/Keith Tippett NMCD003
Mary Wiegold/Composers Ensemble/Peter Wiegold
Metier: MSVCD92043
Mary Wiegold/Composers Ensemble/Dominic Muldowney NMCD003
Mary Wiegold/Composers Ensemble/Dominic Muldowney NMCD003
Mary Wiegold/Composers Ensemble/Dominic Muldowney NMCD003