The ?Tschechischen Tänze? are the last cycle and at the same moment the climax of Bedrich Smetanas´piano ouvre. Smetana´s motive for composing this work was most likely the series of the ?Slawischen Tänze? by Antonin Dvorak. Besides the four

Par SMETANA BEDRICH. Bedrich Smetana (1824-1884) only began to devote himself intensively to the project of an original opera in Czech at the age of 38. The libretto of 'The Bartered Bride”, the second of Smetana's nine operas, was written for Smetana by the poet and journalist Karel Sabina. The subject chosen for the comic opera was the story of a pair of lovers in the countryside whose relationship is disapproved of by their parents. It is set during the festival at a village church anniversary. The final form of the work, which soon came to be regarded as a national opera, was preceded by a relatively difficult genesis. The opera was written between 1863 and 1865 and was premiered on 30 May 1866 at the Provisional Theatre in Prague, where the composer's last version of the work was also performed in 1870. This vocal score contains the musical text of the critical edition of Smetana's own vocal score. The newly-set edition contains both Czech and German vocal texts - the German singing translation is by Kurt Honolka. The newly-set and revised performance material for the entire opera, based on the critical edition by Frantisek Bartos, is available on hire. The vocal score replaces the old edition AE 112. - Urtext based on the critical edition of Smetana's own vocal score - A key work of modern Czech opera - New foreword by Marta Ottlová (Cz/Eng/Ger) - Includes singing translation by Kurt Honolka (Ger)/ Répertoire / Chant et Piano

The first performance of ?Má vlast? as a six-part symphonic cycle took place on 5 November 1882. With the founding of the Czech Philharmonic in 1896 this work received a far greater reception. Since 1952 the music festival ?Prague Spring? has opened with this complete cycle.

This edition is based on the ?Study Edition of the Works of Bedrich Smetana?, vol. 14, supplemented by an up-to-date detailed foreword about the genesis and history of the work by Marta Ottlová.

Contents
Vy?ehrad / Vltava (The Moldau) / ?árka / Z Ceských luhu a háju (From Bohemia?s Woods and Fields) / Tábor / Blaník

? New foreword by Marta Ottlová (Cz/Eng/Ger)
? Urtext based on the ?Study Edition of the Works of Bedrich Smetana?

Detailed instrumentation: Piccolo flute, Flute (2), Oboe (2), Clarinet (in B-flat) (2), Bassoon (2), Horn (4), Trumpet (2), Trombone (3), Tuba, Kettledrum, Triangle, Cymbals, Concert drum, Harp (2), Violin (2), Viola, Violoncello, Double bass / Classique / Partition / Broché /

Libretto for Bedrich Smetana's comic Opera The Bartered Bride. This edition contains English only and was translated by Tony Harrison.

for the Concerto for Piano and Orchestra No. 3 c minor op. 37, 1. movement by Ludwig van Beethoven. Par BEETHOVEN LUDWIG VAN. The volume unites 11 cadenzas from 200 years of music history to form one of the most frequently performed concertos in the piano literature, including several first publications. Among them are not solely highly virtuoso and, sometimes, even romantic lyrical tributes to the genius of classical music, but also cadences with a humorous and ironic touch: Fazil Say's cadence imitated - a music box! With cadences by: Charles Henri Alkan - Ludwig van Beethoven - Gabriel Fauré - Franz Liszt - Ignaz Moscheles - Michael Rische - Fazil Say - Erwin Schulhoff - Clara Schumann - Bedrich Smetana - Viktor Ullmann/ Répertoire / Piano

Bedrich Smetana's The Bartered Bride dates from the happiest most musically fulfilling period in the composer's life and draws inspiration from Czech folk music. The action takes place to the backdrop of a visiting circus. Marenka and Jenik’s love for each other seems doomed as Marenka's father has brokered her in marriage to Vasek. Marenka meets Vasek who doesn't realize who she is and dissuades him from the marriage; meanwhile the marriage broker Kecal persuades Jenik to accept marriage to a wealthy girl; he agrees on condition that Marenka marry the son of Tobias Micha. Vasek forsakes the arranged marriage in pursuit of a circus dancer; Marenka remains scornful ofJenik's seeming betrayal. Jenik's plan becomes clear in the final scene when he is revealed to be Micha's long-lost elder son. All of the mismatched couples are sorted out and a family restored in a joyous finale.This is the Schirmer Edition of the Vocal Score with English text by Marian Farquhar.

Score and Parts-Magnificent work from Karel Husa written in honor of Bedrich Smetana. Demanding for all sections the work begins quietly and quickly builds to open a concert with intensity and grandeur. Grades 4-5.

When Smetana composed his Piano trio in the autumn of 1855 it was an act of catharsis to recover from the death of his four-year-old daughter Friederike. This highly emotional work was also his first large-scale piece of chambermusic. Its first public performance in December 1855 was regrettably not a great success and so Smetana embarked on a protracted process of reworking it. By the late 1850s it had reached its current form. Smetana always liked toperform it but only found a publisher for it in 1880 when one of his pupils invited the Hamburg publisher Hugo Pohle to a performance at short notice. Smetana specialist Milan Posp Å¡il has based this Henle Urtext edition on thefirst edition by Pohle but has also drawn upon the earlier sources. This has enabled him to iron out numerous inconsistencies found in the first edition.

String Quartet no. 1 in e minor-Quand Smetana en 1876 termine son Quatuor en mi mineur sous des couleurs tristes et sombres il est déjà atteint par la surdité. Quel musicien ne connaît pas ce passage fatidique du 4e mouvement où Smetana symbolise par une note ultra-aiguë au violon le début de sa maladie? Les mouvements précédents sont consacrés aux stations plus heureuses de sa vie- la préface de notre édition cite un passage détaillé d?une lettre consacré à ce sujet. Smetana qui à l?époque avait reçu de son éditeur des honoraires ridicules pour son quatuor ne pouvait pas prévoir que cette oeuvre compterait un jour au rang des quatuors à cordes les plus célèbres.?

Zwei Duette für Violine und Klavier - Two Duets for Violin and Piano-?They are in a light style intended more for use in the home than for concert performance?. Thus Smetana described these two duets in which he memorialised his Bohemian homeland. It is a fact though scarcelybelievable that Smetana had by this time already been deaf for two years. The pieces were popular from the outset: Smetana was able to demand a high price for them and even to play off several aspiringpublishers against each other. The duets are not technically over-demanding and attract by means of their joyful character and powerful melodies.

Aus Má Vlast (Mein Vaterland)-Composed in January–February 1875 Š?rka is the third symphonic poem in Smetana’s six-part cycle M? vlast (My Fatherland). He first published it in a version for piano-duet issued by publisher Urb?nek in 1880. The score of the first edition did not appear in print until 1888 four years after Smetana’s death.