Beethoven's Celtic Voice

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Label
Gramola Records
Release Date
July 6, 2018
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    Featuring ⌄
    • COMPOSER
      BEETHOVEN, LUDWIG VAN
    • ORCHESTRA / ENSEMBLE
      Triovanbeethoven
    • PERFORMER
      Anderson, Macdougall
    Product Details ⌄
    • RELEASE DATE
      July 06, 2018
    • UPC
      9003643991743
    • CATALOG NUMBER
      GRAM99174
    • LABEL
      Gramola Records
    • NUMBER OF DISCS
      1
    • GENRE
      Classical
    Works ⌄

    1. 12 Irish songs, WoO 154: No. 12. He promised me at parting

      Composer: Ludwig van Beethoven

      Ensemble: TrioVanBeethoven

      Performer: Lorna Anderson, Jamie MacDougall

    2. 25 Irish songs, WoO 152: No. 21. Morning a cruel turmoiler is

      Composer: Ludwig van Beethoven

      Ensemble: TrioVanBeethoven

      Performer: Lorna Anderson, Jamie MacDougall

    3. 25 Scottish songs, Op. 108: No. 11. O! Thou art the lad of my heart

      Composer: Ludwig van Beethoven

      Ensemble: TrioVanBeethoven

      Performer: Lorna Anderson, Jamie MacDougall

    4. 25 Scottish Songs, Op. 108: No. 16. Could this ill world have been contriv'd

      Composer: Ludwig van Beethoven

      Ensemble: TrioVanBeethoven

      Performer: Lorna Anderson, Jamie MacDougall

    5. 25 Scottish songs, Op. 108: No. 8. The lovely lass of Inverness

      Composer: Ludwig van Beethoven

      Ensemble: TrioVanBeethoven

      Performer: Lorna Anderson, Jamie MacDougall

    6. 25 Irish songs, WoO 152: No. 14. Dermot and Shelah

      Composer: Ludwig van Beethoven

      Ensemble: TrioVanBeethoven

      Performer: Lorna Anderson, Jamie MacDougall

    7. 25 Scottish Songs, Op. 108: No. 12. Oh, had my fate been join'd with thine

      Composer: Ludwig van Beethoven

      Ensemble: TrioVanBeethoven

      Performer: Lorna Anderson, Jamie MacDougall

    8. 25 Scottish songs, Op. 108: No. 5. The sweetest lad was Jamie

      Composer: Ludwig van Beethoven

      Ensemble: TrioVanBeethoven

      Performer: Lorna Anderson, Jamie MacDougall

    9. 12 Irish songs, WoO 154: No. 9. Oh! would I were but that sweet linnet

      Composer: Ludwig van Beethoven

      Ensemble: TrioVanBeethoven

      Performer: Lorna Anderson, Jamie MacDougall

    10. 20 Irish songs, WoO 153: No. 3. The British Light Dragoons

      Composer: Ludwig van Beethoven

      Ensemble: TrioVanBeethoven

      Performer: Lorna Anderson, Jamie MacDougall

    11. 20 Irish songs, WoO 153: No. 20. Thy ship must sail

      Composer: Ludwig van Beethoven

      Ensemble: TrioVanBeethoven

      Performer: Lorna Anderson, Jamie MacDougall

    12. 25 Scottish Songs, Op. 108: No. 25. Sally in our alley

      Composer: Ludwig van Beethoven

      Ensemble: TrioVanBeethoven

      Performer: Lorna Anderson, Jamie MacDougall

    13. 25 Scottish songs, Op. 108: No. 20. Faithfu' Johnie

      Composer: Ludwig van Beethoven

      Ensemble: TrioVanBeethoven

      Performer: Lorna Anderson, Jamie MacDougall

    14. 25 Irish songs, WoO 152: No. 5. The Massacre of Glenco

      Composer: Ludwig van Beethoven

      Ensemble: TrioVanBeethoven

      Performer: Lorna Anderson, Jamie MacDougall

    15. 25 Scottish songs, Op. 108: No. 18. Enchantress, farewell

      Composer: Ludwig van Beethoven

      Ensemble: TrioVanBeethoven

      Performer: Lorna Anderson, Jamie MacDougall

    16. 12 Irish songs, WoO 154: No. 5. Oh! who, my dear Dermot

      Composer: Ludwig van Beethoven

      Ensemble: TrioVanBeethoven

      Performer: Lorna Anderson, Jamie MacDougall

    17. 26 Welsh songs, WoO 155: No. 21. Cupid's Kindness

      Composer: Ludwig van Beethoven

      Ensemble: TrioVanBeethoven

      Performer: Lorna Anderson, Jamie MacDougall

    18. 26 Welsh songs, WoO 155: No. 4. Love without Hope

      Composer: Ludwig van Beethoven

      Ensemble: TrioVanBeethoven

      Performer: Lorna Anderson, Jamie MacDougall

    19. 26 Welsh songs, WoO 155: No. 15. When mortals all to rest retire

      Composer: Ludwig van Beethoven

      Ensemble: TrioVanBeethoven

      Performer: Lorna Anderson, Jamie MacDougall

    20. 20 Irish songs, WoO 153: No. 6. Sad and luckless was the season

      Composer: Ludwig van Beethoven

      Ensemble: TrioVanBeethoven

      Performer: Lorna Anderson, Jamie MacDougall

    21. 25 Scottish songs, Op. 108: No. 13. Come fill, fill my good fellow

      Composer: Ludwig van Beethoven

      Ensemble: TrioVanBeethoven

      Performer: Lorna Anderson, Jamie MacDougall


Beethoven performing seemingly rather trivial tasks for publishers offers a lesser known perspective on the mastermind: the businessman. Like with Joseph Haydn, there exist a multitude of folk song arrangements by Beethoven from many different language areas, besides the here portrayed Scottish, Irish and Welsh songs also Spanish, Hungarian or Swedish ones. Scottish musicians Lorna Anderson, soprano and Jamie MacDougall, tenor and the Austrian TrioVanBeethoven (Verena Stourzh, Clemens Zeilinger, Franz Ortner) take on an exploration to the treasures of Celtic melodies. Beethoven's personal touch in these songs is not only perceivable in the pre- and postludes, but is present in all of the instrumentation - a fact that motivated the initiator George Thomson several times to request even more simple instrumental parts as accompaniment, which Beethoven rejected in his very own way: "Unfortunately, I am not able to fulfill your request. I am not accustomed to retouching my compositions."