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)

Aria Album for Bass from Handel's Operas Based on the Bärenreiter vocal scores these volumes contain some of Handel’s best-known arias for mezzo-soprano/contralto tenor and bass together with some less well-known numbers of equally high musical quality. The arias in these volumes contain works from Handel’s thirty-year period as an opera composer in London and give an impression of the variety of this extensive repertoire. The arias display various distinctive technical features and are mostly presented with the preceding recitative or in a few cases in the context of an entire scene. The arias appear in the chronological order of the operas. Theforewords by Donald Burrows contain detailed notes on Handel’s singers and on the context of the arias of the operas. Based on the Urtext vocal scores of the Halle Handel Edition Detailed forewords (Eng/Ger) by leading Handel expert Donald Burrows Text translations of the Italian arias (Eng/Ger) Recitatives and arias (for bass) from Ariodante Deidamia Ezio Giulio Cesare in Egitto Imeneo Lotario Orlando Radamisto Riccardo Primo Rodelinda Serse (Xerxes) Tolomeo