Ceské tance pro klavír
Czech Dances for Piano
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Edited by Jan Novotný
BA 9507 · € 17.95
Czech Dances for Piano are the last cycle, and at the same time, the high point in Bedrich Smetana’s works for piano. The impetus for the composition of this work for Smetana was probably the first series of Slavonic Dances by Antonín Dvorák.
The volume contains the four polkas composed in 1877, with which Smetana completed his stylisation of the polka in masterly fashion, together with ten folk dances from 1879, with titles such as Furiant, Slepicka (Little Chicken), Oves (Oats), Medvěd (Bear), Cibulicka (Little Onion), Dupák, Hulán (Ulan), Obkrocák (Callipers), Sousedská, Skocná (Spring Dance).
Behind these names are diverse, richly varied types of exuberant youths’ and lyrical girls’ dances. The cycle culminates in two group dances.
The new edition of the work includes an editorial commentary by the pianist Jan Novotný.
Also available:
Edvard Grieg: Easy Piano Pieces and Dances
BA 6575
Claude Debussy: Easy Piano Pieces and Dances
BA 6573
Leos Janacek: On an overgrown Path
BA 9502