BEETHOVEN: Folk Song Arrangements (6CD)

CD1
25 Irish Songs WoO152
1 No.1 The Return to Ulster 5’35
2 No.2 Sweet power of song 1’38
3 No.3 Once more I hail thee 3’09
4 No.4 The morning air plays on my face 2’32
5 No.5 The Massacre of Glenco 1’58
6 No.6 What shall I do to shew how much I love her? 1’46
7 No.7 His boat comes on the sunny tide 2’05
8 No.8 Come draw we round a cheerful ring 0’53
9 No.9 The Soldier’s Dream 5’11
10 No.10 The Deserter 1’08
11 No.11 Thou emblem of faith 1’30
12 No.12 English Bulls 2’31
13 No.13 Musing on the roaring ocean 1’00
14 No.14 Dermot and Shelah 2’22
15 No.15 Let brain-spinning swains 1’03
16 No.16 Hide not thy anguish 2’24
17 No.17 In vain to this desert, due 1’40
18 No.18 They bid me slight my Dermot dear 2’21
19 No.19 Wife, Children and Friends 1’41
20 No.20 Farewell bliss and farewell Nancy 1’18
21 No.21 Morning a cruel turmoiler is 1’09
22 No.22 From Garyone, my happy home 3’32
23 No.23 A wand’ring gypsy, Sirs, am I 0’51
24 No.24 The Traugh Welcome 0’59
25 No.25 Oh harp of Erin 4’18
20 Irish Songs WoO153
26 No.1 When eve’s last rays 1’36
27 No.2 No riches from his scanty store 2’59
28 No.3 The British Light Dragoons 2’50
29 No.4 Since greybeards inform us 1’08
30 No.5 I dream’d I lay where flow’rs were springing 1’27
31 No.6 Sad and luckless was the season 4’20
32 No.7 O soothe me, my lyre 1’07
33 No.8 Norah of Balamagairy 1’32
34 No.9 The kiss, dear maid, thy lip has left 2’49
35 No.10 Oh! thou hapless soldier 1’29
36 No.11 When far from the home 2’19
Total time 78’24
(1, 3, 4, 7, 9, 12, 14, 16, 18, 22, 25, 27, 28, 31, 34, 36)
Dorothee Wohlgemuth soprano
Christine Wehler alto
Georg Poplutz tenor
Jens Hamann baritone
Martin Haunhorst violin
Bernhard Schwarz cello
Rainer Maria Klaas piano
(2, 5, 6, 8, 10, 11, 13, 15, 17, 19, 20, 21, 23, 24, 26, 29, 30, 32, 33, 35)
Renate Kramer soprano
Ingeborg Springer mezzo-soprano
Eberhard Büchner tenor
Armin Ude tenor
Siegfried Lorenz baritone
Berliner Solistenchor
Brahms Trio
Jörg Hoffmann violin
Gotthard Popp cello
Volkmar Lehmann piano

CD2
20 Irish Songs WoO153
1 No.12 I’ll praise the Saints 3’46
2 No.13 ’Tis sunshine at last 2’05
3 No.14 Paddy O’Rafferty 2’41
4 No.15 ’Tis but in vain 1’15
5 No.16 O might I but my Patrick love 3’01
6 No.17 Come, Darby dear 1’12
7 No.18 No more, my Mary 1’58
8 No.19 Judy, lovely, matchless creature 2’46
9 No.20 Thy ship must sail 1’31
12 Irish Songs WoO154
10 No.1 The Elfin Fairies 1’52
11 No.2 O harp of Erin 3’53
12 No.3 The Farewell Song 3’34
13 No.4 The pulse of an Irishman 2’23
14 No.5 Oh! who, my dear Dermot 3’45
15 No.6 Put round the bright wine 2’24
16 No.7 From Garyone, my happy home 4’05
17 No.8 Save me from the grave and wise 2’07
18 No.9 Oh! would I were but that sweet linnet 5’41
19 No.10 The hero may perish 1’15
20 No.11 The Soldier in a Foreign Land 6’12
21 No.12 He promised me at parting 2’46
Total time 61’21
(1–3, 5, 7, 8)
Dorothee Wohlgemuth soprano
Christine Wehler alto
Georg Poplutz tenor
Jens Hamann baritone
Martin Haunhorst violin
Bernhard Schwarz cello
Rainer Maria Klaas piano
(4, 6, 9)
Renate Kramer soprano
Ingeborg Springer mezzo-soprano
Eberhard Büchner tenor
Armin Ude tenor
Siegfried Lorenz baritone
Berliner Solistenchor
Brahms Trio
Jörg Hoffmann violin
Gotthard Popp cello
Volkmar Lehmann piano
(10–21)
Barbara Emilia Schedel soprano
Kerstin Wagner alto
Daniel Schreiber tenor
Daniel Raschinsky baritone
Sachiko Kobayashi violin
Chihiro Saito cello
Michael Wagner piano

CD3
26 Welsh Songs WoO155
1 No.1 Sion, the son of Evan 3’52
2 No.2 The Monks of Bangor’s March 2’31
3 No.3 The Cottage Maid 2’53
4 No.4 Love without Hope 2’16
5 No.5 A golden robe my love shall wear 2’59
6 No.6 The fair Maid of Mona 3’25
7 No.7 Oh let the night my blushes hide 2’23
8 No.8 Farewell, thou noisy town 1’30
9 No.9 To the Aeolian Harp 4’29
10 No.10 Ned Pugh’s Farewell 2’27
11 No.11 Merch Megan 2’47
12 No.12 Waken lords and ladies gay 2’41
13 No.13 Helpless Woman 1’45
14 No.14 The Dream 4’19
15 No.15 When mortals all to rest retire 4’08
16 No.16 The Damsels of Cardigan 2’57
17 No.17 The Dairy House 2’12
18 No.18 Sweet Richard 2’05
19 No.19 The Vale of Clwyd 4’25
20 No.20 To the Blackbird 3’34
21 No.21 Cupid’s Kindness 1’58
22 No.22 Constancy 1’25
23 No.23 The Old Strain 3’26
24 No.24 Three Hundred Pounds 2’37
25 No.25 The Parting Kiss 3’07
26 No.26 Good Night 1’33
Total time 73’57
Antonia Bourvé soprano
Rebekka Stöhr mezzo-soprano
David Mulvenna Hamilton tenor
Haakon Schaub baritone
Manfred Bittner bass-baritone
Zsuzsa Zsizsmann violin
Cornelius Boensch cello
Michael Clark piano

CD4
12 Scottish Songs WoO156
1 No.1 The Banner of Buccleuch 2’45
2 No.2 Duncan Gray 3’02
3 No.3 Up! Quit thy bower 2’29
4 No.4 Ye shepherds of this pleasant vale 2’41
5 No.5 Cease your funning 1’04
6 No.6 Highland Harry 1’56
7 No.7 Polly Stewart 1’49
8 No.8 Womankind 1’22
9 No.9 Lochnagar 3’47
10 No.10 Glencoe 3’06
11 No.11 Auld lang syne 2’08
12 No.12 The Quaker’s Wife 2’04
12 Songs of Various Nationality
13 No.1 God Save the King (English) 4’02
14 No.2 The Soldier (Irish) 2’44
15 No.3 O Charlie is my darling (Scottish) 1’52
16 No.4 O sanctissima (Sicilian) 2’26
17 No.5 The Miller of the Dee (English) 2’37
18 No.6 A health to the brave (Irish) 2’06
19 No.7 Since all thy vows, false maid (Irish) 4’03
20 No.8 By the side of the Shannon (Irish) 2’11
21 No.9 Highlander’s Lament (Scottish) 4’43
22 No.10 Sir Johnie Cope (?Scottish) 3’13
23 No.11 The Wandering Minstrel (Irish) 3’54
24 No.12 La gondoletta (Venetian) 2’48
Total time 65’05
Antonia Bourvé soprano
Rebekka Stöhr mezzo-soprano
David Mulvenna Hamilton tenor
Haakon Schaub baritone
Manfred Bittner bass-baritone
Zsuzsa Zsizsmann violin
Cornelius Boensch cello
Michael Clark piano

CD5
23 Songs of Various Nationality WoO158a
1 No.1 Ridder Stig tjener i Congens Gaard (Danish) 0’40
2 No.2 Horch auf, mein Liebchen (German) 1’53
3 No.3 Wegen meiner bleib d’Fräula (German) 2’25
4 No.4 Wann i in der Früh aufsteh (Tyrolean) 1’15
5 No.5 I bin a Tyroler Bua (Tyrolean) 3’49
6 No.6 A Madel, ja a Madel (Tyrolean) 2’49
7 No.7 Wer solche Buema afipackt (Tyrolean) 0’54
8 No.8 Ih mag di nit (Tyrolean) 3’07
9 No.9 Oj upiłem sie w karczmie (Polish) 0’47
10 No.10 Poszła baba po popiół (Polish) 0’44
11 No.11 Yo no quiero embarcarme (?Portuguese) 1’28
12 No.12 Seus lindos olhos (Portuguese) 2’17
13 No.13 Im Walde sind viele Mücklein geboren (Russian) 0’56
14 No.14 Ach Bächlein, Bächlein, kühle Wasser (Russian) 1’32
15 No.15 Unsere Mädchen gingen in den Wald (Russian) 0’48
16 No.16 Schöne Minka, ich muss schneiden ‘Air cosaque’ (Ukrainian) 3’05
17 No.17 Lilla Carl, sov sött i frid (Swedish) 1’52
18 No.18 An ä Bergli bin i gesässe (Swiss) 1’53
19 No.19 Una paloma blanca ‘Bolero a solo’ (Spanish) 2’35
20 No.20 Como la mariposa ‘Bolero a due’ (Spanish) 1’04
21 No.21 La tiranna se embarca (Spanish) 3’32
22 No.22 Édes kinos emlékezet (Hungarian) 0’58
23 No.23 Da brava, Catina (Venetian) 1’04
24 ‘Non, non, Collette n’est point trompeuse’ WoO158c No.2 from Le Devin du village 1’40
25 Air Français Hess168 1’43
From 7 British Songs WoO158b
26 No.1 Adieu my lov’d harp (Irish) 2’38
27 No.3 Oh was not I a weary wight (Scottish) 5’28
28 No.4 Red gleams the sun (Scottish) 1’44
29 No.5 Erin! oh, Erin! (Irish/Scottish) 3’23
30 No.6 O Mary, ye’s be clad in silk (Scottish) 2’39
Total time 60’55
(1, 4, 7 –10, 12, 13–15, 17, 18, 20, 22)
Renate Kramer soprano
Ingeborg Springer mezzo-soprano
Eberhard Büchner tenor
Günther Leib baritone
Eva Ander piano
Reinhard Ulbricht violin
Joachim Bischof cello
Kurt Mahn oboe
Werner Pauli guitar
Members of the Radio Chorus Leipzig · Horst Neumann conductor
(2, 3, 5, 6, 11, 16, 19, 21, 23, 26–30)
Dorothee Wohlgemuth soprano
Christine Wehler alto
Georg Poplutz tenor
Jens Hamann baritone
Martin Haunhorst violin
Bernhard Schwarz cello
Rainer Maria Klaas piano

CD6
From 6 Songs of Various Nationality WoO158c
1 No.1 When my hero in court appears from The Beggar’s Opera 1’49
2 No.2 Non, non, Collette n’est point trompeuse from Le Devin du village 1’39
3 No.3 Mark yonder pomp of costly fashion (Scottish) 3’11
4 No.4 Bonnie wee thing (Scottish) 2’18
5 No.5 From thee, Eliza, I must go (Scottish) 2’44
25 Scottish Songs Op.108
6 No.1 Music, Love, and Wine 1’35
7 No.2 Sunset 2’40
8 No.3 Oh! sweet were the hours 2’59
9 No.4 The Maid of Isla 2’12
10 No.5 The sweetest lad was Jamie 1’47
11 No.6 Dim, dim is my eye 2’31
12 No.7 Bonnie laddie, highland laddie 1’03
13 No.8 The lovely lass of Inverness 3’13
14 No.9 Behold my love how green the groves 2’28
15 No.10 Sympathy 1’54
16 No.11 Oh! thou art the lad 0’54
17 No.12 Oh, had my fate 1’56
18 No.13 Come fill, fill, my good fellow 1’36
19 No.14 O, how can I be blithe 1’54
20 No.15 O cruel was my father 1’43
21 No.16 Could this ill world 1’57
22 No.17 O Mary, at thy window be 2’08
23 No.18 Enchantress, farewell 1’54
24 No.19 O swiftly glides the bonny boat 2’34
25 No.20 Faithfu’ Johnie 2’57
26 No.21 Jeannie’s Distress 1’44
27 No.22 The Highland Watch 1’41
28 No.23 The Shepherd’s Song 1’51
29 No.24 Again my lyre 3’54
30 No.25 Sally in our Alley 1’39
Total time 64’42
(1–5)
Dorothee Wohlgemuth soprano
Christine Wehler alto
Georg Poplutz tenor
Jens Hamann baritone
Martin Haunhorst violin
Bernhard Schwarz cello
Rainer Maria Klaas piano
(6–30)
Renate Kramer soprano
Ingeborg Springer mezzo-soprano
Eberhard Büchner tenor
Günther Leib baritone
Eva Ander piano
Reinhard Ulbricht violin
Joachim Bischof cello
Kurt Mahn oboe
Werner Pauli guitar
Members of the Radio Chorus Leipzig · Horst Neumann conductor