JOSEPH HAYDN 1732-1809
1 Bannocks o´ barleymeal 3:27
2 Es weiden meine Schafe 3:52
3 Fließ leise mein Bächlein 4:28
4 O can you sew cushions 2:20
5 Green grow the rashes 2:09
6 Heimkehr 1:36
7 Johnie 2:33
8 Rose weiß Rose rot 2:55
9 Ständchen 2:40

HAYDN: Trio in d , Hob. XV:23
10 Molto Andante 5:43
11 Adagio ma non troppo 5:00
12 Finale: Vivace 4:40

LUDWIG VAN BEETHOVEN 1770-1827
13 To the Blackbird 2:13
14 The lovely lass of Inverness 3:23
15 Bonnie laddie highland laddie 1:32
16 The sweetest lad was Jamie 3:21
17 The Elfin Fairies 2:11
18 Since Greybeards inform us 1:42
19 La Gondoletta 2:06
20 Bolero 1:52
21 Tyroler: Der töpperte Hecht 3:02
22 Tyroler: Wenn I in der Früh aufsteh´ 2:13

Total time 64:58

Daniela Bechly, Soprano
Trio Kairos

Super Audio CD

The Enlightenment period set out to make all knowledge and power of the people
accessible to every citizen, against the resistance of the dictators. The years between
1730 and 1800 saw an emancipation of the people, which we have to thank for a
concentration of knowledge, reasoning, feelings and actions. We also have a lot to
be grateful, when it comes to the area of music, for this great production of collections.
Even in Scotland people were endeavouring to compile a wide collection of
the island’s folklore. At the time of the Scottish Enlightenment numerous publishers
and editors were competing against each other with their volumes of Scottish, Irish
and Welsh songs. The most profiled on amongst them became George Thomson
(1757-1851) from Edinburgh. He was the most industrious collector and for more
than 50 years the main supplier for collections of Scottish songs. He was successful
in engaging Haydn and later on Beethoven to support him in elaboration (and composing
new melodies on the basis of the folk melodies) of the collected material.
Some of the results of this work are presented here by Daniela Bechly, Hamburgian
by birth but domiciled in England since 1993 (from 1987 to 1993 she was engaged
at the Deutsche Oper Berlin) in combination with the Trio Kairos – three young
Hamburgian musicians who had a very successful debut on Musicaphon with their
recording of „Piano Trios of the 1920s“ (M 56872).