WILLIAM WEIGEL | composer
WORKS & AUDIO
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Rilke Lieder (2017)
Six poems of Rainer Maria Rilke, for baritone and piano
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Stevens Songs (2015)
Six poems of Wallace Stevens, for soprano, viola and piano
Bettina von Hindte - soprano; Brandt Fredriksen - piano; Melissa Reardon - viola
1 - Disillusionment of Ten OClock
2 - Bantams in Pine Woods
3 - Life Is Motion
4 - Fabliau of Florida
5 - The Emperor of Ice Cream / 6 - The Snow Man
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Dance Suite (String Quartet Number 2) (2012)
Partial performance: Phelps Mansion, Binghampton, New York
Novo4tet: Uli Speth – Violin; Amy Christian – Violin; Martha Brody – Viola; Hakan Tayga-Hromek – Violoncello
1 Introduction-Mazurka
2 Gavotte
3 Riliana
4 Tango
5 Viennese Waltz
6 Slow Dance at the School Prom
7 Saturday Night Fugue
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String Quartet Number 1 (1993)
First performance: Mannes School of Music, April, 1994
Uli Speth – Violin; Juliann Klopotic – Violin; Hui-Fang Hsu – Viola; M. William Briggs – Violoncello
1 - Allegro
2 - Song
3 - March
4 - Fugue
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“Panama” (1993) Operetta for tenor, soprano, male chorus and piano
Private performance in New York City, May 20, 1990
William Hooven – tenor; Janice Lamb - soprano
1 - Charlie's Lament
2 - McDermott
3 - Panama
4 - Your Honor/Reprise
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Brass Quintet Arrangement of Brahms’ “Variations on a Theme of Händel” (1990)
First performance: Minneapolis, Minnesota, January, 1991
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Lullaby (1988)
Setting of W.B. Yeats “A Cradle Song” for tenor, SATB choir and organ
First performance: Church of St. Boniface, Brooklyn, New York, January 29, 1989
William Hooven – tenor; Stanley H. Cox - organ; Choir of St. Boniface Church
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Cadenza for Mozart Piano Concerto Number 23, K. 488 (1988)
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“Suffering” Rag (1977)
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Prothalamion (1975)
For flute and organ
First performance: Dover, Delaware, October, 1975
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“Classical” Sonata for Piano (1974)
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“P.U.B.” March for Wind Band (1971)
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Quintet for Brass Instruments (1969)