Recordings

nmc album: Earth and Stars

Peter Wiegold’s first portrait disc features the plaintive, pastoral Earth, receive an honoured guest, for cor anglais and strings, inspired by WH Auden’s well known elegy for WB Yeats; tthe elemental Kalachakra for large ensemble, using Tibetan bells and brass, based on a Tibetan cosmology and meditation practice; and the bittersweet, Viennese Earth and Stars, commissioned for the 200th anniversary of Mozart’s death and featuring four harmonicas to represent an ancient funeral band, dug up from the soil by future generations. It is completed by Wiegold's touching setting of Jo Shapcott's poems, Les Roses.

Artists:

Melinda Maxwell cor anglais Juliet Fraser soprano Martin Butler piano notes inégales 
South Bank Sinfonia
Peter Wiegold conductor

new album: I cried to dream again 

notes inégales album, released on Wiegold's own label: 2012

Be not afeard; the isle is full of noises,

Sounds and sweet airs, that give delight and hurt not.

Sometimes a thousand twangling instruments

Will hum about mine ears, and sometime voices

That, if I then had waked after long sleep,

Will make me sleep again: and then, in dreaming,

The clouds methought would open and show riches

Ready to drop upon me that, when I waked,

I cried to dream again.