A complicated history
The Glagolitic Mass, a great piece of church music in two scores and a piano reduction.
Janáček's Glagolitic Mass for soloists, choir and orchestra has a complex genesis. There are major differences between the version before the first performance in 1927 and the final printed version. Jirí Zahrádka, the editor of this new edition, solved the problem by also presenting two scores (the "September 1927" version as BA 6863; and the final version as BA 6862). The later version was taken into account as the version valid for performances. It is instrumentally richer, easier to study and shortened in some important passages.
The piano reduction presented here follows this later version. The Church Slavonic text was arranged by the Slavicist Radoslav Vecerka; the performance material is available on loan from Bärenreiterverlag.
Leoš Janáček: Mša glagolskaja, piano reduction after the Critical Complete Edition, edited by Martin Zehn, BA 6862-90, € 34.95, Bärenreiter, Kassel 2012
