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CHAN 0581 Cover 2.Qxd 19/3/08 1:34 Pm Page 1 CHAN 0581 Cover 2.qxd 19/3/08 1:34 pm Page 1 Chan 0581 CHACONNE AULD SCOTTISH SANGS Scots songs collected by Robert Burns arranged by Haydn, Beethoven, Weber, Hummel & Kozeluch FIDDLE MUSIC BY NIEL GOW Scottish Early Music Consort CHANDOS Early Music CHAN 0581 BOOK.qxd 19/3/08 1:40 pm Page 2 Auld Scottish Sangs Songs for the Scots Musical Museum (1790–92) 1 Ay Waukin O (2:16) Bass by Stephen Clarke (c. 1735–1797) Lorna Anderson soprano, John Kitchen fortepiano 2 The deuks dang o’er my daddie (0:48) Bass by Stephen Clarke Christine Cairns mezzo-soprano, Alan Watt baritone, John Kitchen fortepiano 3 Ae fond kiss (3:31) Bass by Stephen Clarke Harry Nicoll tenor, John Kitchen fortepiano 4 Rory Dall’s port (2:32) James Oswald (1711–1769) Christopher Field violin, John Kitchen harpsichord 5 O Kenmure’s on and awa, Willie (1:55) Bass by Stephen Clarke Harry Nicoll tenor, John Kitchen fortepiano 6 There’ll never be peace till Jamie comes hame (3:40) Bass by Stephen Clarke Christine Cairns mezzo-soprano, John Kitchen fortepiano 7 The Deil’s awa wi’ th’ Exciseman (0:53) Bass by Stephen Clarke Alan Watt baritone, Lorna Anderson, Christine Cairns, Harry Nicoll chorus, John Kitchen fortepiano Burns’s visit to Niel Gow (1787) 8 Loch Erroch Side (0:59) Niel Gow (1727–1807) & Margaret Gow Robert Burns (1759–96) Christopher Field violin, Marjorie Rycroft cello, John Kitchen harpsichord 9 Niel Gow’s Lamentation for Abercairney (1:09) Niel Gow Christopher Field violin, Marjorie Rycroft cello, John Kitchen harpsichord 10 Tulloch Gorum (1:09) Set by Niel Gow Christopher Field violin, Marjorie Rycroft cello, John Kitchen harpsichord 2 3 CHAN 0581 BOOK.qxd 19/3/08 1:40 pm Page 4 11 Cumha Mhic a h Arasaig (McIntosh’s Lament) (6:45) 20 For the sake o’ Somebody (2:42) ‘Communicated by Mr Campbell of Ardchattan’ Accompaniment by Hummel Christopher Field violin Christine Cairns mezzo-soprano, Utako Ikeda flute, Christopher Field violin Marjorie Rycroft cello, John Kitchen fortepiano 21 Contented wi’ little and cantie wi’ mair (1:18) Accompaniment by Weber George Thomson and the ‘Inimitable Songs’ of Burns Alan Watt baritone, Utako Ikeda flute, Christopher Field violin Marjorie Rycroft cello, John Kitchen fortepiano 12 What can a young lassie do wi’ an auld man (2:36) Accompaniment by Joseph Haydn 22 Auld lang syne (3:11) Lorna Anderson soprano, Christine Cairns mezzo-soprano, Christopher Field violin Accompaniment by Kozeluch Marjorie Rycroft cello, John Kitchen fortepiano Lorna Anderson soprano, Christine Cairns mezzo-soprano, Harry Nicoll tenor Alan Watt baritone, Christopher Field violin, Marjorie Rycroft cello, John Kitchen fortepiano 13 Auld Rob Morris (5:32) Accompaniment by Haydn Christine Cairns mezzo-soprano, Alan Watt baritone, Christopher Field violin Marjorie Rycroft cello, John Kitchen fortepiano TT 59:51 14 Robert Bruce’s March to Bannockburn (2:02) Accompaniment by Haydn Alan Watt baritone, Christopher Field violin, Marjorie Rycroft cello, John Kitchen fortepiano Scottish Early Music Consort 15 The bonny wee thing (3:34) Accompaniment by Haydn; adapted for 3 voices by Beethoven Warwick Edwards director Lorna Anderson soprano, Christine Cairns mezzo-soprano, Alan Watt baritone Christopher Field associate director Christopher Field violin, Marjorie Rycroft cello, John Kitchen fortepiano 16 Duncan Gray (3:10) Accompaniment by Beethoven Lorna Anderson soprano, Harry Nicoll tenor, Alan Watt baritone, Christopher Field violin Marjorie Rycroft cello, John Kitchen fortepiano 17 The lovely Lass o’ Inverness (3:34) Accompaniment by Beethoven Christine Cairns mezzo-soprano, Christopher Field violin, Marjorie Rycroft cello, John Kitchen fortepiano Musical Instruments 18 Air and Variations: O Kenmure’s on and awa, Willie (Beethoven) (4:05) Flute by Hill, late Monzani & Co, London, c.1830 Utako Ikeda flute, John Kitchen fortepiano Violins by Colin Irving, Guildford, 1985, and (11 only) John Barrett, London, 1722 19 John Anderson my Jo (2:06) Cello by an unknown German maker, c.1700 Accompaniment by Weber Christine Cairns mezzo-soprano, Utako Ikeda flute, Christopher Field violin Harpsichord by Elpidio Gregorio, Italy, 18th cent. (Collection John Barnes) Marjorie Rycroft cello, John Kitchen fortepiano Fortepiano by Friedrich Wolff, Vienna, c.1835 (Collection John Barnes) 4 5 CHAN 0581 BOOK.qxd 19/3/08 1:40 pm Page 6 Songs for the Scots Musical Museum (1790–92) Robert Bruce’s March to Bannockburn (1793) and Contented wi’ little and cantie wi’ mair During the last nine years of his life, between 1787 and 1796, Burns poured much enthusiasm and (1794). energy into contributing to The Scots Musical Museum. No Scots song collection before this had A series of eminent composers was engaged to provide ‘symphonies and accompaniments’ to the achieved such comprehensiveness or such faithfulness to the folk spirit. Its initiator and general airs. The earliest of these were by Pleyel. In 1797 Kozeluch, the Imperial Court Composer in editor was the Edinburgh music engraver James Johnson; but Burns became its guiding genius, Vienna, took over. By 1799 Thomson was soliciting the participation of Haydn, who had already throwing himself into the tasks of gathering, revising, restoring and (where words were needed) set a hundred of these ‘wild but expressive melodies’ for William Napier; helped out by his pupil creating material for it. The musical policy was to present the traditional melodies simply and Sigismund Neukomm, Haydn undertook the whole of the third and fourth volumes, as well as plainly, with sensitive, unpretentious throughbass accompaniments by Stephen Clarke, the organist supplying replacements for the ‘less happily executed’ settings by Pleyel and Kozeluch in the of the Episcopal chapel in Edinburgh’s Cowgate. These seven contrasted songs from the third and earlier volumes. fourth volumes of the Museum are fine examples of Burns’s skill at marrying words to music, Beethoven, who had confessed to Thomson a ‘particular liking for Scottish airs’, provided whether by building on an old verse fragment (as in Ay Waukin O and The deuks dang o’er my arrangements of nearly fifty between about 1815 and 1818, including a number for three voices daddie) or by making a brand-new poem to fit an existing tune (As in Ae fond kiss, here juxtaposed which were described as ‘novelties equally original and beautiful’; Thomson also commissioned with the instrumental piece Rory Dall’s port which provided its melody). from him in 1818 a series of Twelve National Airs with Variations for piano and flute in a style ‘that is familiar and easy and a bit brilliant, so that the majority of our ladies may play and enjoy them’. Burn’s Visit to Niel Gow (1787) Next in the field was Weber, to whom Thomson wrote in 1825 expressing the hope ‘that you will In the summer of 1787 Burns undertook an extended tour of the Highlands of Scotland. Friday 31 have the goodness to contribute your talents also to enrich my work’ and enclosing ten airs for the August found him in the neighbourhood of Dunkeld, where he met Niel Gow, the most celebrated master’s treatment.’ These were to have a part for flute in addition to the piano, violin and cello of Scottish fiddler of his day, before going on to stay with Gow’s patron the Duke of Atholl at Blair earlier arrangements; Weber duly obliged, and the songs were published to coincide with his visit Castle. The poet left a thumb-nail sketch of the violinist, ‘a short, stout-built, honest highland to England to conduct Oberon. By this time the indefatigable editor was also corresponding with figure’, but for details of the music which he heard Gow perform we depend on a report said to Hummel, the only one of his overseas contributors who had actually been to Scotland; from him he derive from Gow’s cellist Patrick Murray. ‘The first tune played was Loch Erroch Side, which received a further twenty songs between 1826 and 1831. greatly delighted the poet… At Burns’s request, Niel next gave them his pathetic Lament for For all these composers, Scottish music could not fail to evoke images of the wildness and Abercairney, and afterwards one of the best-known compositions in the Highlands, McIntosh’s romance that lay beyond the elegance of Georgian Edinburgh. Their efforts to adorn rugged airs in Lament… Tulloch Gorum, and other well-known native airs, were also duly honoured.’ (Alexander concert dress were not always happy, however; moreover they had to reckon with Thomson’s fussy G Murdoch, The Fiddle in Scotland, 1888) over-editing and his reluctance to send them the words of poems. (For this recording we have gone back wherever possible to the earliest sources of both words and music.) Some reputable critics George Thomson and the ‘Inimitable Songs’ of Burns have dismissed the Select Collection as a misguided monstrosity, but the ineptitude of its failures In 1792 George Thomson of Edinburgh, a clerk to the Trustees for the Encouragement of Art and should not be allowed to obscure the merits of its successes. And when a composer’s imagination Manufactures in Scotland, embarked on an ambitious project of ‘collecting all our best melodies was truly fired, as for instance Beethoven’s was by The lovely Lass o’ Inverness, Thomson’s and songs, and of obtaining accompaniments to them worthy of their merit.’ A Select Collection quixotic enterprise was capable of coming up with something uncommonly like a masterpiece. of Original Scottish Airs was to occupy him for the next fifty years. Burns gave generous support from an early stage, contributing such new songs as Auld Rob Morris and Duncan Gray (1792), © Christopher Field 6 7 CHAN 0581 BOOK.qxd 19/3/08 1:40 pm Page 8 Lieder für das Scots Musical Museum (1790–92) Förderung von Kunst und Handwerk in Schottland”, ein ehrgeiziges Projekt in Angriff, “die In den letzten neun Jahren seines Lebens (1787–1796) schuf Burns zahlreiche Beiträge zum Scots Sammlung aller unserer besten Melodien und Lieder sowie die Erstellung von würdigen Musical Museum, eine bis dahin einzigartige Sammlung schottischer Lieder, deren außerordentlich Begleitungen”.
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