Scottish Songs
arr. by Ludwig van Beethoven
Melissa Barrett, violin
Angela Maleh, cello
Jean Shamo, piano
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Scottish Songs
- Again, my lyre (William Smyth)
- The sweetest lad was Jamie (William Smyth)
- The lovely lass of Inverness (Robert Burns)
- Oh! Sweet were the hours (William Smyth)

The trio is joined by soprano Laura Sutton Floyd in a performance of four Scottish Songs. With such descriptive titles as “The Lovely Lass of Inverness” and “The Sweetest Lad was Jamie,” they are among the dozens of Scottish, Irish, and Welsh folk songs Beethoven arranged for one and two voices with piano trio accompaniment. Like the trio, the songs are straight-forward but charming. They offer a view of the day-in-day-out composer whose works, when not monumental, were always genuine.