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| 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 |
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| Pope Joan (1999) |
chamber opera (sop. bar. pno) (30') | FP: Self-made Music Theatre London |
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| 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 |
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| 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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| 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 |
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| New York (2003) |
bass clarinet and 12 solo strings | FP: Southbank Sinfonia, London | |||
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| 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 |
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| 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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| 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. | |
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| Earth, receive an
honoured guest (1998) |
cor anglais and string trio (18') | FP: Composers Ensemble, Dartington | | ||
| 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) | |
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| 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 | |
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| 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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| 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 |
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| 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 |
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| 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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| 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 | |
"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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| 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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