Ricercar Consort Beethoven Irish Songs CD

Ricercar Consort includes an excellent selection of Beethoven's many settings of Irish folksongs, with imaginative new arrangements of his accompaniments, rescored for more traditional instruments than the original piano, violin and cello. His settings are interspersed with more conventional versions of Irish and Scottish folk tunes taken from other sources. These help to highlight his remarkable ingenuity, which preserves the original character of the folksongs while elevating them to a much higher level of interest.

1. Beethoven: The Pulse of An Irishman Woo 154 No.4 2. Beethoven: O Soothe Me, My Lyre Woo 153 No.7 3. Beethoven: The Morning Air Woo 152 No.4 4. Beethoven: My Bonny Laddie Has My Heart 5. Beethoven: en Midsommarafton 6. Beethoven: Lilla Carl Woo 158 No.17 7. Beethoven: Since Greybeards Inform Us Woo 153 No.4 8. Beethoven: Thy Ship Must Sail Woo 153 No.20 9. Beethoven: Open the Door Softly - I Would Rather Than Ireland 10. Beethoven: By the Side of the Shannon Woo 157 No.8 11. Beethoven: The Miller O' Drone - St. Kilda Wedding - Port-A-Beul 12. Beethoven: On the Massacre of Glencoe Woo 152 No.5 13. Beethoven: From Garyone Woo 154 No.7 14. Beethoven: The Elfin Fairies Woo 154 No.1 15. Beethoven: Gu Ma Maith Thig An CR?N Dha Tearlach (Well May Charlie Wear the Crown) 16. Beethoven: Di-Moladh An Uisge-Bheatha (In Dispraise of Whisky) 17. Beethoven: The Parting Glass