Catalogue of Works

| opera | orchestra | solo with orchestra/ensemble | choral |
| ensemble | vocal | chamber | solo/duo | improvised music |   |
opera        
  Brief Encounter
(2004)
chamber opera, 10 singers, ensemble (25') FP: National Opera Studio/ Southbank Sinfonia London   "...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
  Last Tango on the North Circular
(1989)

chamber opera, 4 singers, small ensemble (20')
text: composer
FP: ROH Garden Venture, Donmar Warehouse
   
  Pope Joan
(1999)
chamber opera (sop. bar. pno) (30') FP: Self-made Music Theatre
London
   
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orchestra        
  The Persistence of Memory
(1998)
orchestra (23') FP: Symphony Nova Scotia/'Upstream', 'Open Waters' Halifax, Nova Scotia   "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
  The Persistence of Memory
(1990)
chamber orch (23') FP: City of London Sinfonia
Queen Elizabeth Hall
play audio

"...a powerful experience..."
The Independent

  He is Armoured Without
(2007)

orchestra
trumpet/trombone solo (21")

FP: Proms 2007, BBC Philharmonic, Coldstream Guards, musicians from Uzbekistan, plus 100 brass    
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solo with orchestra/ensemble      
  Earth, receive an honoured guest
(2003)

version for cor anglais and string orchestra (18') FP: Nicholas Daniel, Trinity College of Music String Orchestra, Syon House, Isleworth Festival.    
  Monkey!
(1999)
bass clarinet and orchestra (22') FP: Symphony Nova Scotia
'Open Waters' Halifax, Nova Scotia
   
  New York
(2003)
bass clarinet and 12 solo strings FP: Southbank Sinfonia, London    
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choral        
  Nowell, nowell: out of your sleep
(2002)
choir, with soloists from the choir FP: Ex Cathedra, Birmingham,    
  Perfume of the Desert
(1999)
choir and keyboards (17') FP: Festival Voices, Norwich Festival play audio  
  Perfume of the Desert
(2001)
revised version for choir (and solists from the choir) two pianos (3 players) organ, 2 percussion (17') FP: Dartington International Summer School    
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ensemble      
  Damn Braces
(2005)
improvising chamber ensemble (40') FP: notes inégales, Purcell Room, London.    
  Bitter Iron
(2001)
2 trps, 2vlns, va, vc, db, 2 perc. (25') FP: Symphony Nova Scotia Halifax, Nova Scotia   "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."
  Brouhaha
(1998)
  
4 percussion (6') FP: Composers Ensemble, Dartington    
  Dancing Day
(1973)
brass quintet (22') FP: Purcell Room    
  'cho cho'
(2006)
Japanese ensemble, violin, piano. shakuhachi, percussion FP: Tozai, St. Luke's, LSO, London    
  Earth and Stars
(2006)
fl/picc, cor ang, contra bs, viola, db, piano, perc and 4 harmonicas (20') FP: ensemble xx. jahrhundert, Vienna. play audio  
  Earth, receive an honoured guest
(1998)
cor anglais and string trio (18') FP: Composers Ensemble, Dartington play audio 
  Farewells take place in silence
(2001)
sop. sax, mandolin, perc, 2vlns, va, vc, db (11') FP: London Sinfoneitta   "...deeply affecting Farewells Take Place in Silence, half jam-session, half memorial..." The Independent
  The flowers appear on the earth
(1978)
fl, cl, va, vc, santoor/ guitar perc (25') FP: Gemini, BBC recording    
  Gemini
(1973)
2cls, 2perc (22') FP: Purcell Room    
  The Great Wheel, Parts 1, 2 & 3
(2003)
chamber ensemble (25') FP: London Sinfonietta and Abbos (Uzbekistan), London   "Yet most invigorating of all... an entirely fresh and truly integrated approach to the mix of East and West ." The Independent
  Kalachakra
(2000)
fl/picc, cl, ob/ca, cbs, sop.sax, trp, hn. 2trbs, tuba, 2vlns, va, vc, db, piano 2 perc. (20') FP: 'Sharp Edge' (RPO) play audio  
  New York Suite
(1997)
chamber ensemble (25') FP: London Sinfonietta, Tokyo       
  Prelude I
(1978)
fl, cl, va, vc, + conductor percussion (6') FP: Gemini, South-West Arts tour    
  Prelude III
(1979)
wind quintet (10') FP: Phoenix Wind Quintet, York    
  Soft Shoe Shuffle
(1991)
chamber ensemble (20') FP: LSO Ensemble, Barbican    
  The cut worm forgives the plough
(2005)
contemporary ensemble and folk trio (20') FP: Tacet and the English Acoustic Collective Crawley Folk Festival.    
  Variation (on 'Le Lardon', Rameau)
(2007)
6 piano arrangement
(2')
FP: pianocircus RNCM    
  That man's talking nonsense
(2008)
  FP: bcmg family concert, CBSO Centre play audio  
  The zither with strings
(2008)
er-hu, pipa, cello, yangchin, guzheng FP: Purcell Room, London. Commissioned by the Asian Music Centre for Matthew Barley and the SIlk String Quartet.    
  Bow-Wave
(2009)
accordian, harmonicas, strings, brass FP: Brimingham Symphony Hall, Manchester Bridgewater Hall, Roundhaouse, London. Commissioned by the National Youth Orchestra.    
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vocal        
  and he showed me a pure river of water of life
(1976)
sop, 3cls, perc (23')
text: The Bible
FP: Matrix Gaudeumus, Holland    
  'Dove sta amore'
(1971)
sop, cl. trp. db (8')
text: Ferlingetti
FP: Purcell Room    
  a soft wind stirs
(1992)
sop, chamber ensemble (18')
text: Tagore
FP: Composers Ensemble    
Dartington
   
  Les Roses
(1998)
sop, piano (12')
text: Jo Shapcott
FP: Purcell Room
Helen Reid & Lizzy Cragg
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  like a rope of a thousand fathoms
(1989)

sop, 2cls, va, vc, db (8')
text: trad.
FP: Composers Ensemble, Lilian Bayliss Theatre, Sadlers Wells    
  Prelude IV - 'Snow Melting' sop, cl, vc, pno (4')      
text: Kato Gyodai
FP: Mary Wiegold, Margate    
  seas that have no beaches sop, 14 piece ensemble
text: Mervyn Peake
 
FP: Guildhall Ensemble, Guildhall School    
  Sing Lullaby
(1974)
sop, amplified db (25')
text: trad
FP: Jane Manning and Barry Guy   
Birmingham
   
  Songs from Grimm
(1983)
sop, piano (20')
text: Nick Otty
FP: Jane Manning, Wigmore Hall    
  Within this Body
(2000)
sop .2cls, va, vc, db (23') FP: Composers Ensemble
'Rainbow over Bath'
   
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chamber        
  Earth, receive an honoured guest
(1998)
cor anglais and string trio (18')
FP: Composers Ensemble, Dartington International Music Festival    
  A Mirror to Khalida
(1993)
   
vl, vc, pno, synth (30') FP: Chamber Music Company, Conway Hall    
  Prelude V - Aside
(1981)
string quartet (10') FP: Amphion String Quartet, Liverpool    
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  angel of night
(2001)
2 percussion (musical saw, vibraphone, gongs) (8') FP: Richard Benjafield and Chris Brannick   "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
  Honfleur
(2001)
piano (7') FP: Stephen Gutman    
  Prelude II
(1979)
piano (12') FP: Ronald Lumsden, Leeds    
  the burden'd air
(2006)
cello and live electronics, (25') FP: Matthew Barley St Luke's, LSO, London    
  The Seventh Wave
(1997)
cello and tape (25') FP: Matthew Barley, Lichfield Festival    
  That man's talking nonsense
(2003)
piano and percussion (9') FP: Stephen Gutman and Richard Benjafield, London
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  Variation (on 'Le Lardon', Rameau)
(1999)
piano (2') FP: Stephen Gutman, Dartington play audio "Peter Wiegold's jumping firecracker of a variation, re-ignighting Rameau's own sonic brilliance..." The Times
  Head of Steam
(2007)
clarinet and piano (2') FP: Ian Mitchell, Peter Wiegold Kneller Hall
Spectrum 4, ABRSM
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  When words sing
(2009)
harp FP: bcmg Family Concert, CBSO Centre.    
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  improvised music        
  SIVAD
(2008)
piano, keyborad, saxophones, trumpet, tuba, trombone, oboe/cor anglais, clarinet/bass clarinet, drums, guitar, bass guitar FP: ICA, Miles Davis....Brew. Postcard by Richard Barrett.    
  Bitches Brew
(2008)
piano, keyborad, saxophones, trumpet, tuba, trombone, oboe/cor anglais, clarinet/bass clarinet, drums, guitar, bass guitar FP: ICA, Miles Davis....Brew. Arranged by Peter Wiegold.    
  Improv
(2008)
  FP: Brunel New Noise, Southbank Centre    
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