• First Urtext edition
• Based on The Bohuslav Martinu Complete Edition IV/4/1 (Chamber Music for 6–9 Instruments I)
• Preface of the editor Jitka Zichová (Cz/Eng/Ger)

Unusual instrumentations were by no means the exception in the chamber music works of Bohuslav Martinu, most notably the works he wrote in Paris in the 1920s and 1930s being characterised by his experimentation with sound and form. It is from this period that four short serenades also originate, of which the Serenade No. 1 wa...