Following the publication of Dvorák s early set of love songs Cypresses , all his other songs with piano accompaniment are now appearing in Urtext editions. Songs II includes the mature works from Dvorák s late period. Besides the well-known cycle Love Songs and the less well-known cycle Three Modern Greek Songs , the volume also contains some entirely unknown and previously unpublished pieces: Lullaby and the posthumously published Song from The Smith of Le etín completed by Josef Suk. The songs are presented in chronological order in volumes for high and low voice. Each volume contains the vocal text underlaid in three languages (Cz/Eng/Ger). For the most part the translations have been taken from the first edition. Second volume of the new five-volume Urtext edition of the complete songs First Urtext edition with detailed Foreword (Cz/Eng/Ger) and Critical Commentary (Eng) by the editor Some songs appear for the first time in print Vocal texts in three languages (Cz/Eng/Ger)
SKU: BA.BA10431
ISBN 9790260107786. 30 x 23 cm inches. Text Language: Czech, English, German. Preface: Vejvodová, Veronika.
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.
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SKU: HL.50513790
SKU: HL.50513786