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- Judith Weir
Wake your wild voice (2008)
- Chester Music Ltd (World)
Commissioned by the International Double Reed Society for the 2009 IDRS Conference
Programme Note
Wake your wild voice is a duo for bassoon with cello accompaniment, lasting just under ten minutes. The bassoon plays a continuous virtuosic line, awakening, as the title suggests, a wilder, more passionate voice than the instrument is often allowed in classical music. The relationship between the bassoon and the accompanying cello could be compared to bagpipes; in this piece, the bassoon is the pipe (playing the melody) and the cello is the bag (providing a resonant chordal companion to the bassoon line).
The title is purloined from Sir Walter Scott's poem, 'Gathering Song of Donald the Black':
Pibroch of Donuil Dhu
Pibroch of Dunuil
Wake thy wil voice anew,
Summon Clan Conuil!
Come away, come away,
Hark to the summons!
Come in your war - array,
Gentles and commons.
The title is purloined from Sir Walter Scott's poem, 'Gathering Song of Donald the Black':
Pibroch of Donuil Dhu
Pibroch of Dunuil
Wake thy wil voice anew,
Summon Clan Conuil!
Come away, come away,
Hark to the summons!
Come in your war - array,
Gentles and commons.
Media
Weir: Wake your wild voice
Judith Weir: Wake your wild voice