Zuzana Růžičková, Václav Neumann, Prague Chamber Soloists - Johann Sebastian Bach: Harpsichord Concertos (2017)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 0,98 Gb | Total time: 130:47 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Supraphon | # SU 4222-2 | Recorded: 1966-1968
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 0,98 Gb | Total time: 130:47 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Supraphon | # SU 4222-2 | Recorded: 1966-1968
"Bach saved my life… You always feel in his music that God is present somehow." This is not empty declamation. It is a deep confession of harpsichord player Zuzana Růžičková, a survivor of the inconceivable horrors of the Nazi concentration camps of Terezín, Auschwitz and Bergen-Belsen. She always felt that Bach's music was one of the things that helped her survive. In a certain way this is also true the other way around: Zuzana Růžičková gave new life to Bach's music by persistently promoting the use of harpsichord (as opposed to commonly used piano) in performing Bach repertoire in concert. She was the very first person to initiate the gigantic project of recording the complete harpsichord concertos composed by Bach.