Beethoven: Folksong Settings [Arrangements de Chants Populaires]

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Beethoven: Folksong Settings [Arrangements de Chants Populaires] Reviews

Beethoven: Folksong Settings [Arrangements de Chants Populaires] Reviews

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11 of 12 people found the following review helpful: Song Settings Beethoven Took Seriously..., November 12, 2007 By  S�bastien Melmoth (H�tel d'Alsace, PARIS) - See all my reviews This review is from: Beethoven: Folksong Settings [Arrangements de Chants Populaires] (Audio CD) . Citing Dr. L. Lockwood: "Beethoven initiated an agreement [between 1809-20] with the ambitious Scottish publisher G. Thomson to compose settings of folk songs--Scottish, Irish, English, and, later, Continental songs in many languages, including German, Danish, Tyrolean [Austrian-dialect], Polish, Spanish, Russian, Hungarian, Italian, Portuguese, Swedish, and Swiss-dialect. These compositions add up to a very large body of works, and Beethoven took them much more seriously than later [critics] have realized. Many are of real musical interest. Most are for solo voice, either soprano or tenor, with full-scale accompaniments for piano trio. Filled with striking moments, these little pieces show Beethoven working with the special modal and regional inflections of folk song; conceivably, these inflections and odd tonal twists formed part of their attraction for him." . Help other customers find the most helpful reviews  Was this review helpful to you?  Report abuse | Permalink   Comments (2) 5 of 6 people found the following review helpful: a fantastic bargin, February 18, 2009 By  Dr. J. J. Kregarman (Denver, Colorado United States) - See all my reviews       Amazon Verified Purchase( What's this?) This review is from: Beethoven: Folksong Settings [Arrangements de Chants Populaires] (Audio CD) These disks won all kinds of awards when first issued. Elsewhere Amazon is selling the original CDs for $133. They are worth that price. At the price here they are a steal. If you like Beethoven and/or folk songs you will not go wrong. As Gramophone puts it, listening to these lifts the spirits. Help other customers find the most helpful reviews  Was this review helpful to you?  Report abuse | Permalink   Comments (2) 0 of 4 people found the following review helpful: Garbage in, garbage out, July 11, 2011 By  Frank Lynch "frank_lynch" (Brooklyn, NY USA) - See all my reviews    Amazon Verified Purchase( What's this?) This review is from: Beethoven: Folksong Settings [Arrangements de Chants Populaires] (Audio CD) I lead with "garbage in, garbage out" not to suggest that the folk songs which LvB arranged are garbage, but to remind you that source materials matter, a lot. (To the contrary regarding the original material, I like the kind of music he bothered to work with.) For all the effort which LvB put into these arrangements; for all the artistry he tried to apply; for all his pride in workmanship; these are essentially the kinds of songs you might hear someone like John McCormack sing. Think Stephen Foster. Not that there's anything wrong with Stephen Foster, but I bet that when you want to listen to LvB you want to listen to LvB, and when you want to listen to Stephen Foster, you want to listen to Stephen Foster. Or whoever... I'm just using him as an example, there's no Stephen Foster here. The performances are all fine on this set, but it's a curiosity. Just a curiosity. I wouldn't buy this unless you're a "completist" and really want everything LvB did. This is... Read more Help other customers find the most helpful reviews  Was this review helpful to you?  Report abuse | Permalink   Comment

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