Zuzana Růžičková (harpsichord) Henry Purcell, The complete works for harpsichord

[@Seinway]

Just realized that that Zuzana Ruzickova passed away 2017, I could have had the chance to visit her again, but as you always think , great artists never die, you lose contact because of trusting in their eternal life on earth. Unfortunately this is not the case , so R.I.P Zuzana Ruzickova, my scholarship in Prag was great , but hard too , you wanted a lot in all and all by heart ! Thanks for all I learned concerning Bach , Articulations, trills ( at about 100 versions and more ) and registration ! Also we had to learn the analysis of every baroque form ( especially the Fuge ) and of course Basso continuo only with the cello voice !

[@user-jn9bl6kt2n]

С детства меня завораживали звуки клавесина, эту любовь удалось пронести через долгие годы.Перселл один из любимых моих композиторов, как говорится-все сошлось воедино.❤️👏🙏

[@HarpsichordVinylGallery]

Я надеюсь, что вы можете это оценить.

[@charlesopels9676]

Ruzickova and Purcell a most beautiful duo and "mono-". I am hypnotized!

[@joeltome5519]

the fantastic music of the great English composer Henry Purcell.

[@HarpsichordVinylGallery]

Yes, he did not live long but the quality of his music is great, as was the performance by Zuzana.

[@johninman7545]

Don't you love the Scotch air? Delightful. Always loved it

[@ahsgdf1]

Zuzana Růžičková opened my ear to harpsichord music in my youth. I couln't get enough of her beautiful playing. Thank you so much, and R.I.P.

[@raulfarias9565]

I LOVE THE SOUND OF THE CEMBALO el ♾ 🚩

[@cioccolateriaveneziana]

The same with me. Especially her recordings of Bach.

[@CarmenReyes-em9np]

Están maravillosás las grabaciones de colección 🙏🎹🎼🎶. 😍🇮🇷

[@ALEJANDROARANDARICKERT]

Great music

[@Pony_ezpumi]

Bon voyage and thank you for the music, Zuzana.

[@HarpsichordVinylGallery]

*_The rest of the documentation_* Henry Purcell (1658-9? -1695) is respected in England as the composer who founded the tradition of music written in the English national spirit. He represents a significant phenomenon in the context of the European music development. He came from a well-known musician family and received excellent professional education. His compositions are distinguished for their perfect formal balance and often a rare and unusual harmony. Apart from other works Purcell wrote the first English opera Dido and Aeneas (1688 -1690) and raised considerably the standard of stage music compositions by his music to Shakespeare's dramas (e.g. Richard III, Midsummer Night's Dream, The Tempest, etc.). His sense of tension in drama and of drama contrast can be felt, however, also in his short compositions for the harpsichord. They show the composer's spontaneous inventiveness and vertical harmony, often presented in an unusual way, in the framework of uncomplicated designs of the form. Although Purcell was not destined to live a long life he left behind a work which is extensive and significant: still, there are not many compositions for the harpsichord. Nevertheless, they are attractive for the present listener and interpreter, and therefore the renowned Czech harpsichord player Zuzana Ruzickova has been dealing with the idea of recording a complete set of the harpsichord compositions by Purcell. She managed to realize her intention in 1975 with the Japanese firm Nippon Columbia for which she had made some recordings before. She attempted an unusual recording by using a true copy of the historical English instrument to record the characteristic and pure harpsichord works, i.e. 8 suites (the producer of the instrument Michael Thomas equipped it with condor quills whose maintenance and exchanging during the recording required the characteristic Japanese patience and perfection from the tuner). Playing these compositions, however, the interpreter was aware of the fact that a listener of our time has rather a different sound experience and that he has been brought up in a different music environment and traditions. She did not wish to achieve a historically true sound but a kind of sound with some impact today. Therefore, she chose to play the modern Neupert instrument, rich in registers, for rec>ording the resting 36 short compositions. She considers the modern colour aspect as especially purposeful in those compositions which had been copied from the original orchestra scores, as she meant to prove that it is well possible to play old music on a modern instrument without sacrificing anything of the style. Zuzana Ruzickova herself marked her attitude as "an experiment to discuss," but in view of the fact that this recording has won already the prize of Diapason d'or of the Paris journal Diapason, which specializes in gramophone records, it can be said that it was a creative step well thought over and perfectly realized. Played on the modern instrument were 13 pieces from part II of "Musick's Hand-Maid", 6 pieces from a selected collection of etudes and 14 pieces from various sources, plus 3 other pieces where the authorship still remains to be proven. In this recording Zuzana Ruzickova took advantage of the freedom and chance for almost improvising, which is provided by the music in the treatment of the ornaments and alike. This explains the fact that not even the repetition is carried out consequently, and it requires a creative approach to interpretation which would make the old music sound more topical and still keep its style and the convincing charge. MADE IN CZECHOSLOVAKIA

[@johninman7545]

Henry Purcell has always delighted me. His great humor and charm are matchless. I love his songs. I sang the Owl is abroad. Arise ye subterranean winds . Next Winter comes slowly. Where the bea sucks there suck I..he must have loved children and life. Wonderful silliness whilst adroit.

[@dejanstevanic5408]

Thank you.

[@antoninopirrone2541]

❤️💕💕💕

[@crazyorganist1609]

Beautiful renditions. My very favourite harpsichordist

[@CarmenReyes-em9np]

Ya las había escuchado la voy a guardar gracias 🤩

[@johninman7545]

Oh Z Purtis I just found it. Thanks

[@danielkis5992]

...my childhood with the "yellow record" and the fight with my brother: who will have the records in his own room, or when can we change the two discs between us ? but this music this interpretation is not about us....Is about the very MUSIC! One of the greatest cembalist of all times...!

[@HarpsichordVinylGallery]

Music is also association. I only heard it recently and it still is impressive. Robert Tifft was so kind to make it available.

[@johninman7545]

@@HarpsichordVinylGallery I just thought about The Fitzwilliam Virginal Book. Do you have any of it,please? Blanche Widogrine(SP) did one recording. I heard her perform at the Methodist Episcopalian Church on Vaness Ave in San Francisco in the 70s

[@HarpsichordVinylGallery]

@@johninman7545 That definitely was a long time ago. I have published that recording some years ago if I am correct.

[@alainbastien5593]

Le Baroque avant le Baroque 😊

[@ioannestritemius3791]

Some movements of this are beautiful. Can you get a hold of Robert Woolley's 2-LP-Purcell (Nonesuch)? Recorded just before CD, never released as such. He excelled in Purcell. Thereby hangs another wish: Růžičková in Martinů. Růžičková survived the same horrors in a concentration camp as did Alexis Weissenberg. Both survived by their music; thinking about it in 2019 will soon be a thing of the past, too. Lili Kraus was similarily „mis-positioned” at the time. - Exemplary transfer of the music-making of an in-between-musician - in between death and life.

[@HarpsichordVinylGallery]

OK I will try to find the Woolley recording. My collection is rather vast and chaotic. But when it is on the Hyperion label it can be a problem because that label don't allow that many old recordings on KZbin. They simply block it from the start. I really like these recordings by Z. R. made available by Robert Tifft.

[@ioannestritemius3791]

@@HarpsichordVinylGallery Woolley's was a short-lived Nonesuch fold-cover recording.

[@HarpsichordVinylGallery]

@@ioannestritemius3791 Sorry I was mixing things up. I have found the cover at Discogs but alas I cannot remember I have seen that picture before like this great Purcell recording, so it will not be part of my collection but I can ask around in my limited network. Keep it in mind anyway.

[@nataliyakavok9635]

как полет мотылька

[@ignaciofernandez5876]

sonido muy deficiente, imposible apreciar la música, una pena.

[@HarpsichordVinylGallery]

Intente mejorar la reproducción de sonido de su PC. Buena suerte.