Op. 55-Dvorák’s song cycle Gypsy Songs Op.55 on words by the Czech poet Adolf Heyduk were written at the beginning of 1880 at the request of the Bohemian tenor Gustav Walter a member of the Vienna Court Opera and the work’s dedicatee. For this Urtext edition the editor Veronika Vejvodová has taken the original print as her main source. The edition appears in two volumes one for high voice and another for low voice. Third volume from the new five-volume Urtext edition of Dvorák’s complete songs One of the most popular and best-known song cycles of the romantic repertoire Extensive Foreword (Cz/Eng/Ger) andCritical Commentary (Eng) by the editor Vocal texts in three languages (Cz/Eng/Ger)

Britten's luminous setting of the anonymous sixteenth-century hymn. This edition is arranged for high voice with piano accompaniment in F. Duration: 2½ minutes. Difficulty Level: 3

For High Voice and Piano. With words based on a poem by Arthur Symons. In G Flat Major.