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Leos Janacek wrote only two works for cello and piano of which only Pohadka (Fairy Tale) became established in the concert repertoire. Although he completed the work the composer did not want to have it published. The history of the work’s composition is long and complicated. Janacek began writing the work before 1910 however the Pohadka (Fairy Tale) only received its final form after a series of corrections in 1923. The second composition the Presto is incomplete. Only a sketch exists which Janacek did not develop further. The original tempo marking of Allegro was changed by Janacek himself to Presto. The work has beendiscussed under this title in recent Janacek literature. In the supplement of this edition an early version of A Tale is included. The source to this version is a copy owned by Antonin Vana one of the first interpreters of the composition. The early version of A Tale offers a valuable and interesting alternative to today’s known version with its marked differences such as the considerably changed ending of the first movement and the original form of four movements. Urtext from the Janacek Complete Edition All available sources have been taken into consideration A detailed new foreword by Jiri Zahradka (Czech English German) “Again Bärenreiter sets the industry standard for scholarship clarity of type layout and paper qualitiy.”(Strings July 2009)

Par JANACEK LEOS. This Urtext edition of Janácek's works includes lesser-known piano pieces and miniatures from his late years. They complete our picture of Janácek the piano composer, best known for the cycles 'On an Overgrown Path” and 'In the Mists”. The late miniatures, entered in the album of Kamila Stösslová, reveal his compositional style at its most concise. The editor Ondrej Pivoda, the curator of the Moravian State Museum in Brno, has taken the autograph manuscripts as his principal sources while consulting other accessible sources, such as historical editions and copyist's manuscripts. This series of piano miniatures appears for the first time in a scholarly-critical edition./ Répertoire / Piano

Suite for Wind instruments-Leos Janácek's Mlád (Youth) Suite For Wind Instruments. Parts for Flute/Piccolo Oboe Clarinet (B flat) Horn (F) Bassoon Bass Clarinet (B flat).Leo? Janá ek composed his Suite forwind instruments Mlád (in English youth) in 1924 so when he was over 70. Numerous sources still survive for this work making it difficult to establish the definitive musical text. For our Urtext edition acooperation with Universal Edition Wien Ji Zahrádka from the Janá ek-Archiv in Brno succeeded in brilliantly surmounting this difficulty: he consults all of the handwritten sources for the edition for the first time and isthus able to give exact instructions for instance regarding the numerous tempo variants.

The composition ?1.X.1905 ? generally referred to as a ?sonata ? stems from the autumn of 1905 the peak of the riots between the Czech- and German-speaking populations in Janá ek?s hometown Brno. Reacting to the violent death of a Czech worker Janá ek wrote a three-part composition for Piano originally bearing the title ?From the Street on October 1 1905.? Dissatisfied with the work however Janá ek is said to have first burned the third movement in his fireplace and then thrown the remaining two movements into the Vltava even before its premiere. A copy of these first two movements on which thepublication of the first edition was later based is also missing today. For this reason the Urtext edition of G. Henle Publishers and Universal Edition is based solely on the first edition from 1924 which Janá ek expert Ji Zahrádka has carefully evaluated and annotated for this volume.

Janá ek?s 2nd String Quartet Intimate Letters is regarded as a highlight of the modern string quartet literature. It was written during the composer?s last year of life between 29 January and 19 February 1928 inspired by the ageing Janáèek?s exceptional love for Kamila Stösslová. The Moravian Quartet devoted themselves to this impressive work; Janá ek attended a total of three of their rehearsals in May and June 1928. This had several consequences including his abandoning his original idea of using a viola d?amore. After Janá ek?s unexpected death (12 August 1928) the uncertain genesis of the work became the greatest problem of the IntimateLetters : the surviving copies were not definitively authorised. The editors of this new edition have reverted to Janá ek?s autograph sketches as the main most reliable source and using these as a basis have reconstructed the work as it stood at the point of Janá ek?s death. The musical text taken from the Critical Complete Edition of the Works of Leo? Janá ek (Vol. E/4) therefore contains clear differences in comparison with older editions.