Baerenreiter Verlag

Composer: Antonin Dvorak
Editor: Veronika Vejvodova
Format: Book, Urtext Edition
Voicing: Low Voice and Piano, Singing Score

• 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)

Following the publication of Dvorak'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 Dvorak'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and the less well-known cycle "Three Modern Greek Songs", the volume also contains some entirely unknown and previously unpublished pieces: "Lullaby" and the posthumously published "Song from The Smith of Lesetin" completed by Josef Suk.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.

Contents:

• Preface
• Song Texts
• Tri novorecke basne / Drei neugriechische Gedichte / Three Modern Greek Poems op. 50 B 84b:
  • I. Koljas (pisen kleftska / Kleftenlied / Klepht Song)
  • II. Nereidy (balada) / Nereiden (Ballade) / Nereids (Ballad)
  • III. Zalozpev Pargy (pisen hrdinna) / Pargas Klagenlied (Heldenlied) / Parga's Lament (Heroic Song)
• Pisne na slova Gustava Pflegra-Moravskeho / Lieder auf Worte von Gustav Pfleger-Moravsky / Songs to Words by Gustav Pfleger-Moravsky op. 2 B 123-124:
  • I. Vy, vrouci pisne, pejte / Ihr Lieder sollt' ertonen / Sing Fervent Songs
  • II. O, byl to krasny, zlaty sen / Es war der allerschonste Traum / Oh! What a Perfect Golden Dream
  • III. Me srdce casto v bolesti / Mein Herz ist traurig gramerfullt / Downcast am I
  • IV. Na horach ticho, v udoli ticho / Ruhe im Tale, Ruhe auf Bergen / Everything's Still in Valley and Mountain
• Dve pisne na lidove texty / Zwei Lieder auf Volkstexte / Two Songs on Folk Poems s. op. B 142:
  • I. Ukolebavka / Wiegenlied / Lullaby
  • II. Prekazka v poboznosti / Gestorte Andacht / A Hindrance to Devotion
• V narodnim tonu / Im Volkston / In Folk Tone op. 73 B 146:
  • I. Dobru noc (slovenska) / Gute Nacht (Slowakisch) / Good Night (Slovak)
  • II. Zalo dievca, zalo travu (slovenska) / Die Maherin (Slowakisch) / The Mower (Slovak)
  • III. Ach, neni tu (ceska) / Klage (Bohmisch) / Maiden's Lament (Czech)
  • IV. Ej, mam ja kona faku (slovenska) / Besitz und Verlust (Slowakisch) / Loved and Lost (Slovak)
• Ctyri pisne / Vier Lieder / Four Songs op. 82 B 157:
  • I. Kez duch muj sam / Lasst mich allein / Leave Me Alone
  • II. Pri vysivani / Die Stickerin / Over Her Embroidery
  • III. Jaro / Fruhling / Spring-tide
  • IV. U potoka / Am Bache / At the Brook
• Pisne milostne / Liebeslieder / Love Songs op. 83 B 160:
  • I. O, nasi lasce nekvete / Wird doch die Liebe nie zu frohem Ziel jemals uns leiten / Never Will Love Lead Us to that Glad Goal
  • II. V tak mnohem srdci mrtvo jest / Tot ist's in mancher Menschenbrust / Death Reigns in Many a Human Breast
  • III. Kol domu se ted potacim / Ich schleich' mich um jenes Haus herum / I Wander Oft Past Yonder House
  • IV. Ja vim, ze v sladke nadeji / Ich weiss, dass meiner Lieb' zu dir / I Know That on My Love to Thee
  • V. Nad krajem vevodi lehky spanek / Rings die Natur nun in Schlummer und Traumen / Nature Lies Peaceful in Slumber and Dreaming
  • VI. Zde v lese u potoka / Im tiefen Walde steh' ich / In the Deepest Forest Glade I Stand
  • VII. V te sladke moci oci tvych / Im sussen Bann von deinem Blick / When Thy Sweet Glances on Me Fall
  • VIII. O, duse draha, jedinka / Du einzig Teure / Thou Only, Dear One
• Ukolebavka / Wiegenlied / Lullaby s. op. B 194
• Zpev z Lesetinskeho kovare / Lied aus der Dichtung "Der Schmied von Leschetin" / Song from "The Smith of Lesetin" op. posth. B 204
• Pisne na slova Gustava Pflegra-Moravskeho / Lieder auf Worte von Gustav Pfleger-Moravsky / Songs to Words by Gustav Pfleger-Moravsky op. 2 B 123-124:
  • III. I Wander Oft Past Yonder House (First version of song No. 3 from "Love songs")
  • IV. Never Will Love Lead Us to that Glad Goal (First version of song No. 1 from "Love songs")
• Critical Report