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Zuzana Ruzickova Bach solo keyboard box - 20CDs

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Randy Lane

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Sep 1, 2016, 1:09:55 AM9/1/16
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Saw on HMV Japan this evening.

http://www.hmv.co.jp/news/article/1608240003/

Not sure if will be released internationally. Sure hope so.
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howie...@btinternet.com

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Sep 1, 2016, 8:03:26 AM9/1/16
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Anyone like what she did?

dk

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Sep 1, 2016, 1:10:29 PM9/1/16
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On Thursday, September 1, 2016 at 5:03:26 AM UTC-7, howie...@btinternet.com wrote:
> Anyone like what she did?

While not sure I understand your rather cryptic question,
Ruzickova's Bach performances on Supraphon rank very high.

dk

howie...@btinternet.com

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Sep 1, 2016, 2:13:22 PM9/1/16
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I played an extraordinary Supraphon one last week, Clavier Ubung 3, she shares the chorales with an organist. It's really unusual to hear any of this music played on a harpsichord. Anyway well worth catching for Ruzickova's performance, and the organist (whose name escapes me) is listenable and the organ good. Ruzickova uses a revival instrument there. I've also been listening to her second WTC, the one on the Ruckers, I don't think it's a Supraphon, it's fun, full of unexpected ear tickling colours and dynamic changes.

csembalo

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Sep 2, 2016, 2:58:24 AM9/2/16
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This should be available everywhere. Here's the Amazon link: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B01JQV81P4/

Those unfamiliar with Ruzickova's Bach can sample many of these recordings on youtube. Here are three examples:

Preludes and Fugues BWV 887-88: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qz53i970dX4
English Suite BWV 807: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nf7lO-DCwW4
Partita BWV 829: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z4swuiIcqgE

If you have an aversion to revival harpsichords (Ammer, Sperrhake and Neupert) you may want to stay away, but if you're looking for solid, old-school Bach performances of great integrity, this will be a set worth having. I especially love her WTC.

JohnGavin

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Sep 2, 2016, 9:44:39 AM9/2/16
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Could you estimate how many of the CDs are played on revivals?

I know that Richter used to attend Susanna Ruzickova's recitals.

graham

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Sep 2, 2016, 9:57:27 AM9/2/16
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I have the LP of her Goldbergs and it is excellent - if you like the
harpsichord.
Graham

csembalo

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Sep 2, 2016, 11:38:17 AM9/2/16
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On Friday, September 2, 2016 at 8:44:39 AM UTC-5, JohnGavin wrote:
> Could you estimate how many of the CDs are played on revivals?
>
> I know that Richter used to attend Susanna Ruzickova's recitals.

She plays two historic Hemsch harpsichords for the selections on Disc 14 in the Amazon listing, as well as the early suites included on Discs 6 and 15. Everything else is on revivals. The Goldbergs, French Suites, Inventions, Italian Concerto, Chromatic Fantasia and Fugue, Toccata BWV 911, and the violin sonatas with Suk are played on a Neupert. The English Suites and cello sonatas with Fournier are played on a Sperrhake. Everything else, including the WTC, Partitas, Aria variata, Fantasias and Fugues, Brandenburg 5, and the remaining Toccatas are played on an Ammer.

AB

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Sep 2, 2016, 12:18:37 PM9/2/16
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On Thursday, September 1, 2016 at 8:03:26 AM UTC-4, howie...@btinternet.com wrote:
> Anyone like what she did?

within the limitations of the instrument she plays very well. But after a while the lack of variety in the sound gets on my nerves. Individual notes in chords can't be voiced. Loud chords really grate.....
Wonder if others feel the same...

AB

Arno Schuh

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Sep 2, 2016, 3:39:00 PM9/2/16
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Randy Lane <randy...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Saw on HMV Japan this evening.
>
> http://www.hmv.co.jp/news/article/1608240003/
>

Thanks a lot for this announcement! I was looking for this reissue since
some month - and didn't expect, my hope come true so fast.

Now I hope, a complete set of Helmut Walcha's Bach on harpsichord also will
be reissued, too.

Yours sincerely

Arno

Raymond Hall

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Sep 2, 2016, 3:41:44 PM9/2/16
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She is a wonderful player, but I could stand no more than five minutes of serious listening due to the instrument which (1) is a harpsichord, and (2) the instrument is far too bright for me. A deeper more subdued instrument would be more to my taste, but such a shame she never recorded on a piano.

Ray Hall, Taree

rlbfour

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Sep 2, 2016, 4:21:16 PM9/2/16
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She had a fascinating life, in Nazi concentration camp,and forced labor ones and then a long and not very pleasant one in Czechoslovakia until the "Velvet" revolution

Arno Schuh

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Sep 2, 2016, 4:43:04 PM9/2/16
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And in addition after all waht she experienced in my country from my
people - shortly after WW2 she came to us, played concerts, teached etc.
What a great personality and honorable human character!

dk

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Sep 2, 2016, 5:38:43 PM9/2/16
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Sounds like you are craving a piano sound.
Your hearing has been corrupted by too much
listening to pianos! ;-)

dk

AB

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Sep 2, 2016, 8:19:27 PM9/2/16
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my hearing is corrupted by Trump's voice..

AB

Terry

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Sep 3, 2016, 9:51:22 AM9/3/16
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I haven't listened to her for years, but your comments seem to me to be pretty much on the button.

RiRiIII

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Sep 7, 2016, 3:12:10 AM9/7/16
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45 EUR at jpc.de

https://www.jpc.de/jpcng/classic/detail/-/art/johann-sebastian-bach-saemtliche-cembalowerke/hnum/4254756
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