Music / solosang

Folk songs


Reviews (3)


MusicWeb international

2020 July

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Göran Forsling (f. 1942)

2020 July

"I have a feeling that these folk song arrangements are fairly little known, but they are definitely worth investigating. All in all a wholly delightful programme, excellently performed".


Presto classical

2020

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"George Thomson of Edinburgh, a notable promoter of Scottish music ... found a rich source of arrangements in Vienna, where he commissioned first Haydn and then Beethoven to set a large sequence of poems, including those of Robert Burns and Sir Walter Scott. Thomson envisaged simple works, agreeable to amateurs, but Beethoven found it impossible to compose within such limitations and his settings, which include Irish and Welsh songs, with the accompaniment of strings and piano, have proved perennially popular".


Fono Forum

2020 Oktober

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Gerhard Persché

2020 Oktober

"Volksliedern aus Schottland, Irland und Wales ... So versah Beethoven mehr als hundert Lieder mit seiner ganz eigenen Tönung; als begleitung wählte er häufig das Klaviertrio, Hoffnungsfrohe junge Sänger wie die erfrischende Sopranistin Paula Sophie Bohnet ... werden mit Eifer unterstützt".