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Brief Encounter
(2004) |
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chamber opera, 10 singers, ensemble (25') |
National Opera Studio/ Southbank Sinfonia London |
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"...simple and effective. The result was impressive, with the scoring vivid and the words getting across...
All in all, a success."
Opera Magazine, Francis Muzzu |
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Last Tango on the
North Circular
(1989)
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chamber opera, 4 singers, small ensemble (20')
text: composer |
ROH Garden Venture, Donmar Warehouse
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Pope Joan
(1999)
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chamber opera (sop. bar. piano) (30') |
Self-made Music Theatre
London |
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The End of the Line (A Brief Encounter)
(2009)
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chamber opera, 4 singers, ensemble of 200 |
RNCM Musicians, Manchester Piccadilly Train Station |
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orchestra |
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The Persistence of
Memory
(1998) |
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orchestra (23') |
Symphony Nova Scotia/'Upstream', 'Open Waters'
Halifax, Nova Scotia |
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"The improvisatory sections were seamlessly integrated into the through-composed ones, giving the whole a warmth and a scintillating sonority in which time and memory were ingeniously intertwined." Chronicle, Nova Scotia |
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The Persistence of
Memory
(1990)
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chamber orchestra (23') |
City of London Sinfonia
Queen Elizabeth Hall |
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"...a powerful experience..."
The Independent |
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He is Armoured Without
(2007) |
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orchestra
trumpet/trombone solo (21")
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Proms 2007, BBC Philharmonic, Coldstream Guards, musicians from Uzbekistan, plus 100 brass |
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Bow-Wave
(2009) |
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orchestra and soloists |
Birmingham Symphony Hall, Manchester Bridgewater Hall, Roundhouse, London. Commissioned by the National Youth Orchestra. |
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solo with orchestra |
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Earth, receive an
honoured guest
(2003)
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version for cor anglais and string orchestra (18') |
Nicholas Daniel, Trinity College of Music String
Orchestra, Syon House, Isleworth Festival. |
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Monkey!
(1999) |
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bass clarinet and orchestra (22') |
Symphony Nova Scotia
'Open Waters' Halifax, Nova Scotia |
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New York
(2003) |
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bass clarinet and 12 solo strings |
Southbank Sinfonia, London |
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choral |
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Nowell, nowell: out
of your sleep
(2002) |
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choir, with soloists from the choir |
Ex Cathedra, Birmingham, |
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Perfume of the Desert
(1999) |
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choir and keyboards (17') |
Festival Voices, Norwich Festival |
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Perfume of the Desert
(2001) |
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revised version for choir (and solists from the choir)
two pianos (3 players) organ, 2 percussion (17') |
Dartington International Summer School, pianocircus |
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ensemble |
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Damn Braces
(2005) |
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improvising chamber ensemble (40') |
notes inégales, Purcell Room, London. |
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Bitter Iron
(2001) |
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2 trps, 2vlns, va, vc, db, 2 perc. (25') |
Symphony Nova Scotia Halifax, Nova Scotia |
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"Wiegold wrote for it with great delicacy, employing the sonic palette of strings, percussion and brass with a discriminating and exact ear for both pitch and timbre, and fashioning with clarity and focus the sustained sound envelopes which contained them." |
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Brouhaha
(1998)
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4 percussion (6') |
Composers Ensemble, Dartington |
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Dancing Day
(1973) |
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brass quintet (22') |
Purcell Room |
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'cho cho'
(2006) |
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Japanese ensemble, violin, piano. shakuhachi, percussion |
Tozai, St. Luke's, LSO, London |
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Earth and Stars
(2006) |
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fl/picc, cor ang, contra bs, viola, db, piano, perc and 4 harmonicas (20') |
ensemble xx. jahrhundert, Vienna. |
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Farewells take place
in silence
(2001)
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sop. sax, mandolin, perc, 2vlns, va, vc, db (11') |
London Sinfoneitta |
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"...deeply affecting Farewells Take Place in Silence, half jam-session, half memorial..." The Independent |
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The flowers appear
on the earth
(1978) |
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fl, cl, va, vc, santoor/ guitar perc (25') |
Gemini, BBC recording |
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Gemini
(1973) |
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2cls, 2perc (22') |
Purcell Room |
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The Great Wheel,
Parts 1, 2 & 3
(2003) |
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chamber ensemble (25') |
London Sinfonietta and Abbos (Uzbekistan),
London |
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"Yet most invigorating of all... an entirely fresh and truly integrated approach to the mix of East and West ."
The Independent |
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Kalachakra
(2000) |
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fl/picc, cl, ob/ca, cbs, sop.sax, trp, hn. 2trbs, tuba,
2vlns, va, vc, db, piano 2 perc (20') |
'Sharp Edge' (RPO) |
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New York Suite
(1997) |
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chamber ensemble (25') |
London Sinfonietta, Tokyo |
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Prelude I
(1978) |
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fl, cl, va, vc, + conductor percussion (6') |
Gemini, South-West Arts Tour |
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Soft Shoe Shuffle
(1991)
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chamber ensemble (20') |
LSO Ensemble, Barbican |
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The cut worm forgives
the plough
(2005) |
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contemporary ensemble and folk trio (20') |
Tacet and the English Acoustic Collective Crawley
Folk Festival. |
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Variation (on 'Le Lardon', Rameau)
(2007) |
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6 piano arrangement
(2') |
pianocircus RNCM |
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That Man's Talking Nonsense
(2008) |
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bcmg family concert, CBSO Centre |
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The zither with 50 strings
(2008) |
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er-hu, pipa, cello, yangchin, guzheng |
Purcell Room. Commissioned by the Asian Music Centre for Matthew Barley and the Silk String Quartet. |
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Kalachakra (revised)
(2009) |
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picc, cl, ob, sax, trp, trb, tuba, va, vc, db, pf, 2 perc |
notes inégales, Kings Place Festival |
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Four Winds
(2009) |
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saxophone quartet |
Schools' Prom, Royal Albert Hall. Commissioned by Music for Youth |
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That Man's Talking Nonsense (revised)
(2009) |
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2 pf, 2 perc (9') |
Hammers & Sticks, Kings Hall, Newcastle University |
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a soft wind stirs
(1992) |
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sop, chamber ensemble (18')
text: Tagore |
Composers Ensemble, Dartington |
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like a rope of a
thousand fathoms
(1989)
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sop, 2cls, va, vc, db (8')
text: trad. |
Composers Ensemble, Lilian Bayliss Theatre, Sadlers
Wells |
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seas that have no
beaches |
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sop, 14 piece ensemble
text: Mervyn Peake
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Guildhall Ensemble, Guildhall School |
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Within this Body
(2000) |
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sop .2cls, va, vc, db (23') |
Composers Ensemble, 'Rainbow over Bath' Festival |
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Earth, receive
an honoured guest
(1998) |
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cor anglais and string trio (18')
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Composers Ensemble, Dartington International Music
Festival |
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A
Mirror to Khalida
(1993)
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vl, vc, piano, synth (30') |
Chamber Music Company, Conway Hall |
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Prelude III
(1979) |
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wind quintet (10') |
Phoenix Wind Quintet, York |
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Prelude V - Aside
(1981) |
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string quartet (10') |
Amphion String Quartet, Liverpool |
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and he showed me
a pure river of water of life
(1976) |
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sop, 3cls, perc (23')
text: The Bible |
Matrix Gaudeumus, Holland |
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'Dove sta amore'
(1971) |
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sop, cl. trp. db (8')
text: Ferlingetti |
Purcell Room |
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Prelude IV - 'Snow Melting' |
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sop, cl, vc, piano (4')
text: Kato Gyodai |
Mary Wiegold, Margate |
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solo/duo |
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angel of night
(2001) |
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2 percussion (musical saw, vibraphone, gongs) (8') |
Richard Benjafield and Chris Brannick |
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"Collectively titled Lullabies and Nightmares, the former could easily induce the latter so sinister is the effect of a lullaby like Peter Wiegold's Angel of the Night played on a musical saw and vibraphone."
Lynne Walker, 2001 |
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Honfleur
(2001) |
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piano (7') |
Stephen Gutman |
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Prelude II
(1979) |
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piano (12') |
Ronald Lumsden, Leeds |
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the burden'd air
(2006) |
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cello and live electronics, (25') |
Matthew Barley St Luke's, LSO |
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The Seventh Wave
(1997) |
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cello and tape (25') |
Matthew Barley, Lichfield Festival |
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That Man's Talking
Nonsense
(2003) |
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piano and percussion (9') |
Stephen Gutman and Richard Benjafield, London
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Variation (on 'Le
Lardon', Rameau)
(1999)
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piano (2') |
Stephen Gutman, Dartington |
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"Peter Wiegold's jumping firecracker of a variation, re-ignighting Rameau's own sonic brilliance..." The Times |
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Head of Steam
(2007) |
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clarinet and piano (2') |
Ian Mitchell, Peter Wiegold Kneller Hall
Spectrum 4, ABRSM
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La Belle Epoqué
(2007) |
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pf, keyboard (20') |
Brunel University 2007, duoDorT, released on Triple Point EP 2010 (Squeaky Kate) |
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Aulos
(2008)
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clarinet and piano |
Purcell Room, Park Lane Group Young Artisits' New Year Series 2008. Commissioned by Peter Sparks |
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Frog Hunt
(1981) |
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bass clarinet (3') |
Wigmore Hall, David Lumbsdaine 50th birthday concert |
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Youwarkee
(2009) |
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harp |
bcmg Family Concert, CBSO Centre |
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Les Roses
(1998) |
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sop, piano (12')
text: Jo Shapcott |
Purcell Room, Helen Reid & Lizzy Cragg |
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Sing Lullaby
(1974) |
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sop, amplified db (25')
text: trad |
Jane Manning and Barry Guy, Birmingham |
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Songs from Grimm
(1983) |
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sop, piano (20')
text: Nick Otty |
Jane Manning, Wigmore Hall |
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A Cause for Wonder (cycle) (2009) |
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counter tenor and piano (10') |
Iestyn Morris, Chelsea Arts Club |
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A Cause for Wonder
(2010) |
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counter tenor and piano (3') |
Andrew Watts and Andrew Ball, nmc Songbook |
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