Peter Wishart: Songs, part-songs, incidental music
Scope & Content:
Wishart's songs are discussed and listed in Don Roberts, 'The songs of Peter Wishart', in Aspects of British song, edited by Brian Blyth Daubney, 1992.
'Meditations and mysteries', for mezzo-soprano, chorus SATB, strings and organ; 1969. Ink score on transparencies, vocal score for mezzo-soprano arias, ink on transparencies.
1. ff. 1-30. 'Meditations and mysteries', for mezzo-soprano, chorus SATB, strings and organ; 1969. Draft score in pencil, ink vocal scores of number II and IV, 'The cold wind' and 'A devout prayer of the Passion'. 2. ff. 31-59. 'The nativity', for chorus SATB and orchestra; 1964. Pencil sketch...
'Come Holy Ghost', cantata for Whitsuntide, for contralto solo, women's chorus and strings, op. 7; undated. Composed in 1950. Pencil draft (ff. 1-16). Ink short score fragment (ff. 17-18). Score, vocal score and chorus parts on transparencies (ff. 19-62). Ink score (ff. 63-104). Hire copy of voc...