Leos Janacek
MALE CHORUSES II

The Complete Critical Edition of the Works of Leoš Janáček, Series C / Vol. 2 

ed. by Leos Faltus and Petr Oliva

The second volume of Janacek’s Male Choruses, with the exception of the early Ave Maria from 1883, contains male choral works written after 1900. These include masterpieces of Janacek’s choral writing, in particular, compositions written to the texts of Bezruc’s Silesian Songs (Halfar the Schoolmaster, Marycka Magdonova /this volume contains two Janacek versions/, The Seventy Thousand) and the choral piece The Wandering Madman, written to the words of Indian poet Rabindranath Tagore. In addition, the volume includes pieces inspired by folklore The Wreath, Four Moravian Male-Voice Choruses and The Eiderdown, and the later patriotic works The Czech Legion, Our Flag and Chorus for Laying the Foundation Stone of Masaryk University in Brno; the last two choral works mentioned are published for the first time. The informed and comprehensive preface by Theodora Strakova was revised by Eva Drlikova (Leos Janacek Foundation). The volume is complemented with a critical commentary and a supplementary section containing the early versions of certain choral works and a fragment of the chorus To Retired Teachers. The sung texts are given in three languages (Cz/Eng/Ger).

H 7840 / BA 6858 full score, ISMN 979-0-2601-0360-3, 284 pages 
€ 293,00 regular price / € 234,00 subscription price   BUY 

Forthcoming:

september 2011 Glagolitic Mass