Tullochgorum: Haydn - Scottish Songs / Art, The Poker Club Band

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Label
BIS
Release Date
January 3, 2020
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    Featuring ⌄
    • COMPOSER
      TRADITIONAL
    • PERFORMER
      The Poker Club Band, Art, Graham, Karamazov, Stoffer, Lay
    Product Details ⌄
    • RELEASE DATE
      January 03, 2020
    • UPC
      7318599924717
    • CATALOG NUMBER
      BIS-2471
    • LABEL
      BIS
    • NUMBER OF DISCS
      1
    • GENRE
      Classical
    Works ⌄

    1. O poortith cauld, and restless love, Hob. XXXIa:17bis (arr. M. Art for voice, violin, cello and harp)

      Composer: Franz Joseph Haydn

      Ensemble: The Poker Club Band

    2. Auld Rob Morris, Hob.XXXIa:192 (arr. M. Art for voice, violin, cello, guitar and harp)

      Composer: Franz Joseph Haydn

      Ensemble: The Poker Club Band

    3. Prelude in C Minor

      Composer: John Eloüis

      Performer: Masako Art

    4. Roxolane d'Haydn (after J. Haydn's Symphony No. 63 in C Major, Hob.I:63, "La Roxelane": II. La Roxelane)

      Composer: John Eloüis

      Performer: Masako Art

    5. The Mucking of Geordie's byer, Hob.XXXIa:51 (arr. M. Art for voice, violin, cello and guitar)

      Composer: Franz Joseph Haydn

      Ensemble: The Poker Club Band

    6. The Siller crown, Hob.XXXIa:260 (arr. M. Art for voice, violin, cello, guitar and harp)

      Composer: Franz Joseph Haydn

      Ensemble: The Poker Club Band

    7. Up in the morning early, Hob.XXXIa:28 (arr. M. Art for voice, violin, cello and harp)

      Composer: Franz Joseph Haydn

      Ensemble: The Poker Club Band

    8. Deil tak the wars, Hob.XXXIa:229 (arr. M. Art for voice, violin, cello, guitar and harp)

      Composer: Franz Joseph Haydn

      Ensemble: The Poker Club Band

    9. I. Allegro

      Composer: François de Fossa

      Performer: Edin Karamazov, Masako Art

    10. II. Adagio

      Composer: François de Fossa

      Performer: Edin Karamazov, Masako Art

    11. III. Allegro di molto

      Composer: François de Fossa

      Performer: Edin Karamazov, Masako Art

    12. McGrigor of Rora's lament, Hob.XXXIa:81bis (arr. M. Art for voice, violin, cello, guitar and harp)

      Composer: Franz Joseph Haydn

      Ensemble: The Poker Club Band

    13. Morag, Hob.XXXIa:143bis (arr. M. Art for voice, violin, cello, guitar and harp)

      Composer: Franz Joseph Haydn

      Ensemble: The Poker Club Band

    14. Prelude in G Major

      Composer: John Eloüis

      Performer: Masako Art

    15. Romance de Haydn (after J. Haydn's Symphony No. 82 in C Major, Hob.I:82, "L'ours": II. Allegretto)

      Composer: John Eloüis

      Performer: Masako Art

    16. Lizae Baillie, Hob.XXXIa:83 (arr. M. Art for voice, violin, cello, guitar and harp)

      Composer: Franz Joseph Haydn

      Ensemble: The Poker Club Band

    17. Oran gaoil, Hob.XXXIa:228 (arr. M. Art for voice, violin, cello, guitar and harp)

      Composer: Franz Joseph Haydn

      Ensemble: The Poker Club Band

    18. Tullochgorum, Hob.XXXIa:270 - Puirt A Beul - Tullochgorm's Reel (arr. M. Art for voice, violin, cello, guitar and harp)

      Composer: Franz Joseph Haydn, Traditional

      Ensemble: The Poker Club Band

    19. Niel Gow's Lament for the Death of His Second Wife (arr. for violin and harp)

      Composer: Niel Gow

      Performer: Sabine Stoffer, Masako Art


Between 1791 and 1804, Joseph Haydn arranged some 400 traditional songs for publishers in Scotland and England. Almost all of the songs were Scottish and the most common setting was for voice and piano trio. There have been numerous recordings and performances of the arrangements by these forces, but on this disc The Poker Club Band offer their listeners something quite different. Taking its name from one of the Edinburgh clubs at the heart of the Scottish Enlightenment, the ensemble consists of four early music specialists and a traditional singer. They have retained Haydn’s violin and cello, but the keyboard part has been adapted for harp and guitar following indications that the harp was commonly used for contemporary performances of Scottish traditional repertoire. The Gaelic singer James Graham, with his idiomatic Scottish timbre, and the period instruments – of which Masako Art’s single-action pedal harp from 1809 is known to have been in Scotland around the time – brings us that much closer to what a performance in an Edinburgh salon might have sounded like around 1800. The songs themselves range from the cautionary tale of a girl who married for love and now is doomed to a life of hard and dirty work on her husband’s farm (The Mucking of Geordie’s Byer) to love songs such as Oran Gaoil, with a text by Robert Burns. Providing variety, some instrumental 18th century arrangements of Haydn originals are included while the album ends with the well-known atmospheric Lament by the Scottish fiddler Niel Gow.