Haydn: Scottish Songs, Vol. 2

Jamie MacDougall, Lorna Anderson & Haydn Trio Eisenstadt

Erschienen am 27.09.05 bei Brilliant Classics
Künstler: Jamie MacDougall Lorna Anderson Haydn Trio Eisenstadt
Genre: Klassik

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The two volumes that the Brilliant label has devoted to Haydn's arrangements of Scottish folk songs make a mismatched pair: Vol. 1 contains but a single disc, while Vol. 2 has four. The pairing is useful in a way; those who want a sampler of the music can stick with the first volume, while libraries and others interested in a nearly complete edition of this phase of Haydn's output can shell out for the whole thing. Haydn wrote arrangements of Scottish folk songs, mostly for voice and piano trio, for several publishers between 1791 and about 1805; these discs contain those he wrote for the Scottish publisher George Thomson. These recordings do contain some music that has probably never been recorded before; in addition to folk song arrangements, there are a few delightful little sets of instrumental variations on Scottish songs. Some of the music in this set would have been among the last that Haydn set down in his old age.
"I do not expect that he [Haydn] will do the accompaniments better than Kozeluch [another composer Thomson employed]; that is scarcely possible, but in the Symphonies [presumably independent introductions and small compositions] Haydn will be great & original," Thomson wrote. Indeed, the master's personality shows through even in a thing so small. Although Haydn was given only tunes, not texts or titles (and although he would probably have struggled with the texts if he had had them), he made something distinctive of each tune. When his music is set to a text by Robert Burns, who often wrote new words to a traditional tune, the effect intermittently is of a meeting of great minds. Soprano Lorna Anderson and tenor Jamie MacDougall, true Scots both (MacDougall is one of the Three Scottish Tenors), offer ideal interpretations of this music, with text intelligibility, a minimum of fuss, and a popular spirit. Although we might have wished for a fortepiano instead of the Steinway used, the Eisenstadt Trio of Austria provides circumspect accompaniment and even offers more information about the project on its own website. Sample some of these songs to see whether you really want one or five CDs' worth of them -- they don't differ drastically from one to another, but some of us can never get enough Robert Burns, who, if he were alive today, would have been a hip-hop musician. Texts are in English, with little synopses of each song provided in German. An above-average release for the budget-minded Brilliant label.

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