Beethoven's Irish Songs, Wo0 153 & 152, for voice and piano trio

Apollo Chamber Players presents Irish Songs Wo0 153 & 152 by L. von Beethoven. Performance as part of ‘Irish Odyssey’ season concert program, May 5, 2017, at Midtown Arts and Theater Center Houston (MATCH).
Irish Songs, WoO 154 (1812-13) Selections.................Ludwig van Beethoven
for voice and piano trio (1770-1827)
Sydney Anderson, soprano | Rameen Chaharbaghi, baritone | Anabel Ramirez Detrick, violin | Matthew Dudzik, cello | Tim Hester, piano
APOLLO CHAMBER PLAYERS
Anabel Ramirez Detrick, violin I | Matthew J. Detrick, violin II | Whitney Bullock, viola | Matthew Dudzik, cello
More at: apollochamberplayers.org
Videography: Ben Doyle, Runaway Productions
Audio: Ryan Edwards and Shannon Smith, Coincident Sound
Program Note:
In 1809 Ludwig van Beethoven composed more than 150 works for George Thomson, among them settings of melodies of Irish, Scottish, Welsh, and Gallic origin, as well as other collections of songs from “diverse nationalities”. Beethoven composed more folksong settings than he did works of any other genre, and he arranged more traditional airs from Ireland than from any other country. Beethoven did not set the texts of the Irish folksongs to his own music - he arranged the melodies sent to him by Mr. Thomson, who then retrospectively applied text to Beethoven’s arrangements.
George Thomson (1757-1851), a Scotsman, collected and published folk melodies of the British Isles, and commissioned well-known composers of the time, such as Pleyel and Haydn, to compose piano accompaniments for these melodies with optional violin and cello parts. He would then commission poets to provide texts for the melodies he had chosen. Thomson’s friend, Scottish poet Robert Burns, suggested that he should publish arrangements of Irish melodies and offered to supply the poetry for them. Thomson decided to ask Beethoven, the most famous composer at the time, to provide the arrangements (and Haydn’s health was failing). Thomson sent Beethoven the first group of Irish melodies in 1809 after much negotiation over the fee. (Unfortunately, Mr. Burns passed away and was not the source of the text of Beethoven’s settings).
Thomson published two volumes of these Beethovinian Irish songs in 1814 and in 1816. The folk songs in these collections were written to please the growing taste of the middle and upper middle classes for folk-like songs that would be easy for amateurs to perform and pleasing to listen to in a social setting. In this style of folk music arranging, the intent was to entertain rather than to educate or preserve a musical heritage; music and text were often blended with no sense at all of ethnomusicological authenticity. Renowned Beethoven scholar, Professor Barry Cooper, states that Beethoven’s folk settings have “a kind of sophisticated artlessness that no ordinary composer could achieve”.
Tonight’s selections encompass a broad spectrum of Irish sensibilities with a melancholy yearning for an absent love ("No riches from his scanty store"), merry celebration ("Paddy O'Rafferty") and of course, what would a set of Irish songs be without mention of "the Elfin Fairies”!
-Note by Apollo Chamber Players

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Desde Uruguay: excelente. Please put the names of the songs, and its lyrics. Thanks.