The Brilliant label, from the Netherlands, applies its budget-box-set modus operandi usefully to Haydn's Scottish songs, which do not have an abundance of competent recordings. They've issued them all in six volumes, of which this is the last even though the songs included here (and in the fifth volume) represent Haydn's first encounter with the successful business of setting Scottish folk songs. A vogue for such settings accompanied the flowering of Scottish literature in the late eighteenth century, and Robert Burns had a ...
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The Brilliant label, from the Netherlands, applies its budget-box-set modus operandi usefully to Haydn's Scottish songs, which do not have an abundance of competent recordings. They've issued them all in six volumes, of which this is the last even though the songs included here (and in the fifth volume) represent Haydn's first encounter with the successful business of setting Scottish folk songs. A vogue for such settings accompanied the flowering of Scottish literature in the late eighteenth century, and Robert Burns had a hand in issuing an ongoing anthology of Scottish music under the title The Scots Musical Museum. The melodies of the pieces here were drawn from that collection by publisher William Napier II and given to Haydn. For the later Haydn collections of folk song settings we know that he was given only the music, not the texts (which fit the music metrically), but it's not clear what the situation was with this one, and the little setting of Burns' The Slave's Lament (CD 1, track 3), with...
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