Als die alte Mutter

Als die alte Mutter (Songs My Mother Taught Me) is the fourth of Antonín Dvo_ák’s Gypsy Songs (Opus 55), a cycle he composed in the year 1880. This moving song was written to a German poem by Adolf Heyduk, and in the course of time, it has been performed and recorded by great singers like Nellie Melba, Joan Sutherland and Renée Fleming. The appealing melody is known to a large public. In this edition, two versions have been combined: an instrumental adaptation of the song, and an adaptation for soprano with a concert band accompaniment - both made by Tohru Takahashi.