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."

Tracklist:

12 Irish Songs, Woo 154: No. 12, He Promised Me At Parting
25 Irish Songs, Woo 152: No. 21, Morning A Cruel Turmoiler Is
25 Scottish Songs, Op. 108: No. 11, O! Thou Art The Lad Of My Heart
25 Scottish Songs, Op. 108: No. 16, Could This Ill World Have Been Contriv'd
25 Scottish Songs, Op. 108: No. 8, The Lovely Lass O' Inverness
25 Irish Songs, Woo 152: No. 14, Dermot And Shelah
25 Scottish Songs, Op. 108: No. 12, Oh, Had My Fate Been Join'd With Thine
25 Scottish Songs, Op. 108: No. 5, The Sweetest Lad Was Jamie
12 Irish Songs, Woo 154: No. 9, Oh! Would I Were But That Sweet Linnet
20 Irish Songs, Woo 153: No. 3, The British Light Dragoons
20 Irish Songs, Woo 153: No. 20, Thy Ship Must Sail
25 Scottish Songs, Op. 108: No. 25, Sally In Our Alley
25 Scottish Songs, Op. 108: No. 20, Faithfu' Johnie
25 Irish Songs, Woo 152: No. 5, The Massacre Of Glenco
25 Scottish Songs, Op. 108: No. 18, Enchantress, Farewell
12 Irish Songs, Woo 154: No. 5, Oh! Who, My Dear Dermot
26 Welsh Songs, Woo 155: No. 21, Cupid's Kindness
26 Welsh Songs, Woo 155: No. 4, Love Without Hope
26 Welsh Songs, Woo 155: No. 15, When Mortals All To Rest Retire
20 Irish Songs, Woo 153: No. 6, Sad And Luckless Was The Season
25 Scottish Songs, Op. 108: No. 13, Come Fill, Fill My Good Fellow

UPC: 9003643991743
Label: Gramola
Release Date: 7.6.18
Format: CD

Beethoven / Anderson / Macdougall - Beethoven's Celtic Voice (CD)