Various Artists - Wisps in the Dell [COMPACT DISCS] USA import

Olde Focus Recording

Various Artists - Wisps in the Dell [COMPACT DISCS]

Artist: Various Artists

Title: Wisps in the Dell

Condition: New

Format: COMPACT DISCS

Release Date: 2019

Label: Olde Focus Recording

UPC: 767223519978

Genre: Pop

In the late-classical era, an Edinburgh publisher commissioned the most famous composers in continental Europe to orchestrate traditional Scottish folk songs in their original English. A lush sampling of this music is performed here by Makaris, a new early-music super-group (made up of members of ACRONYM and New Vintage Baroque, among others), and headed by soprano Fiona Gillespie. Included are song arrangements by Haydn and Weber, the first recordings of arrangements by Pleyel and Hummel, the first English-language recording of a Scottish ballad by Schubert, instrumental variations by Kuhlau and Clementi, and never-before-heard alternate versions of songs by Beethoven, along with a world premiere by Makaris bassist Doug Balliett.