3 Janacek Pieces

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

for Tenor Alto Three Female Voices and Piano-Janácek?s intimate chamber-music drama about the passionate love of a simple farm boy for a beautiful gypsy girl is one of his great vocal masterpieces.This cycle of 22 songs for tenor (an alto and three female voices are added in three numbers) was composed on a setting of poems that were published anonymously. It was not until 80 years later that their author was identified as the regional poet and writer Ozef Kalda.The cycle also contains theatrical elements such as the alto entrance and exit cues and lighting effects. Composed in 1917-19 the ?Diary? was premièred in Brno in 1921 from a manuscript prepared by Gustav Homola.The same manuscriptserved as a basis for the first edition which was issued by the Brno publisher Oldrich Pazd rek in 1921 as well as for this current first Urtext edition.First Urtext edition with a detailed Foreword (Cz/Eng/Ger) and Critical Commentary (Eng) by the editorSinging translations in German (by Max Brod) and English (by Bernard Keefe)Numbers IX to XI which include the alto and three female voices also available online

Jean Hasse's Next Dance for Piano Quartet.Next Dance (1999) is a series of three short dance-like pieces each with melodies that are heard twice with some variation in the accompaniment. The last ‘dance’ was written first taken from a piano piece composed in October 1998 one of my Pocket Pieces. I called this ‘Tanec’ or ‘Czech Dance’ because I was influenced by some of Janacek’s sonorities. The first two ‘dances’ grew from this melody and accompaniment. - Jean Hasse

(2CD set) CDs only. (These orchestral recordings present the complete excerpt, and the specific instrument is not omitted.) For corresponding sheet music anthology see EP 8665 / Trombone