Baerenreiter Verlag Gypsy Songs op. 55 - Dvorak/Vejvodova - Low Voice/Piano - Book

Composer: Antonin Dvorak
Editor: Veronika Vejvodova
Format: Book, Urtext edition
Languages: Czech, English, German
Voicing: Low Voice and piano

Dvorak'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 Vejvodova 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 Dvorak's complete songs
• One of the most popular and best-known song cycles of the romantic repertoire
• Extensive Foreword (Cz/Eng/Ger) and Critical Commentary (Eng) by the editor
• Vocal texts in three languages (Cz/Eng/Ger)

Contents:

• Preface
• Song Texts
• I. Ma pisen zas mi laskou zni / Mein Lied ertont, ein Liebespsalm / I chant my lay, a hymn of love
• II. Aj! Kterak trojhranec muj / Ei! Ei, wie mein Triangel / Hark! Hark, how my triangle
• III. A les je tichy kolem kol / Rings ist der Wald so stumm und still / Silent and lone the woods around
• IV. Kdyz mne stara matka / Als die alte Mutter / Songs my mother taught me
• V. Struna naladena / Reingestimmt die Saiten / Tune thy strings, oh gypsy!
• VI. Siroke rukavy / In dem weiten, breiten / In his wide and ample
• VII. Dejte klec jestrabu / Darf des Falken Schwinge / Cloudy heights of Tatra
• Appendix:
  • III. Rings ist der Wald so stumm und still - First Version
  • III. Rings ist der Wald so stumm und still - Second Version
• Critical Report