海頓: 蘇格蘭歌曲集
詹姆斯.葛拉漢 演唱
藤村昌子 豎琴
撲克牌俱樂部樂隊

在1791年到1804年之間, 海頓改編了近400首傳統歌曲在蘇格蘭與英格蘭出版. 這些歌曲幾乎都是蘇格蘭歌, 而最常見的安排是給聲樂與鋼琴的三重奏. 雖然已經有許多錄音專輯以這三重奏方式表演過這些改編歌曲, 但撲克牌俱樂部樂隊帶給聽眾的是非常不同的. 這樂隊的名稱來自於蘇格蘭啟蒙運動核心時期的愛丁堡酒吧, 由四位早期音樂專家和一位傳統音樂歌手組成. 他們保留海頓的小提琴與大提琴部分, 但鍵盤樂部分則是改編成豎琴和吉他, 這是根據有跡象顯示豎琴經常被用在蘇格蘭傳統曲目的現代表演中. 蓋爾語歌手詹姆斯.葛拉漢(James Graham)以他民俗的蘇格蘭音色和藤村昌子(Masako, Art, Fujimura)以在該時期的蘇格蘭使用的1809年單一式踏板豎琴(Single-action Pedal Harp)古樂器, 帶給我們近似於在1800年愛丁堡沙龍表演中聽到的聲音.

這些歌曲從一個女孩為了愛而結婚但注定要在丈夫的農場過著艱苦和骯髒工作生活的警世故事(The Mucking of Geordie’s Byer)到羅伯特·伯恩斯(Robert Burns)寫的愛情歌曲(愛之歌Oran Gaoil). 為了提供一些變化, 海頓原版的18世紀樂器演奏改編歌曲也包含在內. 此CD結尾的是蘇格蘭小提琴家尼爾.高(Niel Gow)廣為人知充滿氣氛的哀嘆曲(Lament).

Between 1791 and 1804, Joseph Haydn arranged some 400 traditional songs for publishers in Scotland and England. Almost all of the songs were Scottish and the most common setting was for voice and piano trio. There has been numerous recordings and performances of the arrangements by these forces, but on this disc The Poker Club Band offer their listeners something quite different. Taking its name from one of the Edinburgh clubs at the heart of the Scottish Enlightenment, the ensemble consists of four early music specialists and a traditional singer. They have retained Haydn’s violin and cello, but the keyboard part has been adapted for harp and guitar following indications that the harp was commonly used for contemporary performances of Scottish traditional repertoire. The Gaelic singer James Graham, with his idiomatic Scottish timbre, and the period instruments – of which Masako Art’s single-action pedal harp from 1809 is known to have been in Scotland around the time – brings us that much closer to what a performance in an Edinburgh salon might have sounded like around 1800. The songs themselves range from the cautionary tale of a girl who married for love and now is doomed to a life of hard and dirty work on her husband’s farm (The Mucking of Geordie’s Byer) to love songs such as Oran Gaoil, with a text by Robert Burns. Providing variety, some instrumental 18th century arrangements of Haydn originals are included while the disc ends with the well-known atmospheric Lament by the Scottish fiddler Niel Gow.