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)

Love and Time-Dring herself had perfect pitch and these songs make technical demands upon the singer to good effect.Twentieth century English composer singer and actress Madeleine Dring wrote songs that frequently employed jazz chords in their accompaniment which has been compared in the US to Gershwin. Here there are touches of artsong French chanson and some element that is Dring’s own idiomatic style.