Erstfassung 1927. Par JANACEK LEOS. / Répertoire / Solistes, Chœur Mixte SATB, Orgue et Piano

Erstfassung 1927. Par JANACEK LEOS. / Répertoire / Solistes, Chœur Mixte SATB, Orgue et Orchestre

This study score is based on the Complete Critical Edition of the Works of Leo? Janá ek. The principal source is the first edition but the editor has also consulted the handwritten sources and extant proofs. The edition opens with a new Foreword by Ji Zahrádka.- 20th century repertoire piece now available in study score.- Based on the Complete Critical Edition of the Works of Leo? Janá ek vol. D/7.- New Foreword by Ji Zahrádka (Cz/Eng/Ger).The Barenreiter Urtext study scores are a prime example of how Barenreiter takes a musical text and transfers it into a practical format.The Barenreiter Urtext Study Scores format 16.5 x 22.5cm areideal for musical analysis rehearsal purposes and even conducting. The Study Scores are distinguished by high quality paper and binding as well as an excellent layout.In this way masterworks of musical history are made available as compact sized scores at extremely affordable prices!

Most of Czech composer Leo? Janá ek?s music for solo Piano was produced during the relatively short period between 1900 and 1912. This was a period in which Janá ek suffered the death of his second child and had to come to terms with multiple rejections from the Prague music scene which denied the composer and his distinctive musical language the opportunity to participate in international musical developments until 1916 when his work finally managed to gain international recognition.In the Mists was composed during this period of great difficulty and despair in a house in the garden of the Brno Organ School hidden from the eyes ofthe world with a broken self confidence and a mind in a state of melancholy.Influenced by Debussy?s impressionism In the Mists is one of the most remarkable works in 20th-century Piano literature said to be 20 years ahead of its time. In the Bärenreiter Urtext edition Janá ek?s cycle is presented in the form that can be found in the Complete Critical Edition of the Works of Leo? Janá ek. A preface by Ji Zahrádka is also included in Czech English and German.Because of the virtuoso nature of Janá ek?s work it is more challenging and less accessible but extremely rewarding when mastered.

Janácek's 2nd String Quartet Intimate Letters is regarded as a highlight of the modern string quartet literature. It was written during the composer?s last year of life between 29 January and 19 February 1928 inspired by the ageing Janáèek's exceptional love for Kamila Stösslová. The Moravian Quartet devoted themselves to this impressive work; Janácek attended a total of three of their rehearsals in May and June 1928. This had several consequences including his abandoning his original idea of using a viola d'amore. After Janácek's unexpected death (12 August 1928) the uncertain genesis of the work became the greatest problem of the IntimateLetters : the surviving copies were not definitively authorised. The editors of this new edition have reverted to Janácek's autograph sketches as the main most reliable source and using these as a basis have reconstructed the work as it stood at the point of Janácek's death. The musical text taken from the Critical Complete Edition of the Works of Leo? Janácek (Vol. E/4) therefore contains clear differences in comparison with older editions.

after the Sonata for Violin and Piano-Janá ek?s masterpiece in a convincing arrangement for Clarinet.Foreword by the arranger (Eng/Cz/Ger)This arrangement of the well-known Violin sonata is based on the volume of the Complete Critical Edition of the Works of Leo? Janá ek (Series E/1 2).The Israeli clarinetist Shirley Brill who teaches at the Hanns Eisler School of Music Berlin has arranged the work for her instrument with a sensitive ear for the sound quality of the original composition. Her version displays the specific potential of the Clarinet to good advantage; in a few passages it proved necessary to adapt the Piano accompaniment.The arrangement was commissionedfor the International Janá ek Competition 2014 in Brno (Czech republic).

for Piccolo and Piano-The little march composed in 1924 forms the nucleus of the suite for Wind Instruments Mlád (HN 1093/7093) in which the jaunty Flute theme weaves through the 3rd movement. Incidentally the ?bluebirds? do not refer tobirds but to the light blue robes worn by the choristers at the monastery in Brno which Janá ek entered at the age of eleven. Almost 60 years later during a visit to Potsdam he remembered the Prussian troops? invasion ofBrno and with this in mind wrote a chamber music miniature with a military element. This Janá ek edition by Ji Zahrádka a specialist on the life and work of the great Czech composer containstop-quality Urtext as well as detailed information on the work?s genesis and transmission.

Final version-Study score format 22 5 x 16 5 cm.?The Glagolitic Mass? a significant sacred work in Leo? Janácek?s output only appears towards the end of his life. Janácek composed this work for Soloists Chorus and Orchestra in Old Church Slavonic in the spa resort of Luhacovice in the summer and autumn 1926. He revised it at the end of 1927 after its first performance (Brno 5.12.1927). The score of the mass was only published after the composer?s death in 1929.The later revision known as the ?final authorised version? is contained in this study score edition. This is the significant version which is mostly used for performances. Itis richer in orchestration easier to learn and more stringent in some important passages.- Study score based on the ?Complete Critical Edition of the Works of Leo? Janácek? vol. B/5 I.- Detailed foreword and description of the sources by the editor (Cz/Eng/Ger).- Old Church Slavonic text in the version by Radoslav Vecerka.- Vocal score BA6862-90.- Performance material available for hire.