Arrangements De Chants Populaires /Vol.6 [CD de audio] Lorna Anderson

This is the last installment of this great project, recording all of Haydn's arrangements of British popular songs. For the 'Scottish Songs' recordings, Brilliant Classics once again reunited two exceptional singers with the Haydn Trio Eisenstadt. Could there be a better combination to capture the local color of the originals and Haydn's witty, moving and often funny music than a Scottish-Viennese team? Music was common in all strata of Scottish society, and soon Scottish music reached London as a fashion, where many Scots had established themselves at court and in government. Haydn faced a great challenge when he composed these songs. He received the tunes in the original Highland version, but without text. He added 'symphonies and rhymes', as they said then, which often did not coincide with the text. However, the songs were very popular at the time. More information - John Steane of Gramophone wrote: '(...) on the powerful songs he is excellent (Macdougall). The level of the entire recording is of the same level of quality. The singers fit perfectly into the repertoire. The instrumentalists are unmatched and faithful to the style in their playing.