J.s. Bach: Harpsichord Concertos

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Label
Supraphon
Release Date
April 21, 2017
Format
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    Featuring ⌄
    • COMPOSER
      BACH, J.S.
    • PERFORMER
      Ruzickova, Klement, Klement, Prague Chamber Soloists, Neumann
    Product Details ⌄
    • RELEASE DATE
      April 21, 2017
    • UPC
      099925422226
    • CATALOG NUMBER
      SU4222-2
    • LABEL
      Supraphon
    • NUMBER OF DISCS
      2
    • GENRE
      Classical
    Works ⌄

    1. I. Allegro

      Composer: Johann Sebastian Bach

      Ensemble: Prague Chamber Soloists

      Performer: Zuzana Růžičková

      Conductor: Václav Neumann

    2. II. Adagio

      Composer: Johann Sebastian Bach

      Ensemble: Prague Chamber Soloists

      Performer: Zuzana Růžičková

      Conductor: Václav Neumann

    3. III. Allegro

      Composer: Johann Sebastian Bach

      Ensemble: Prague Chamber Soloists

      Performer: Zuzana Růžičková

      Conductor: Václav Neumann

    4. I. Allegro

      Composer: Johann Sebastian Bach

      Ensemble: Prague Chamber Soloists

      Performer: Zuzana Růžičková

      Conductor: Václav Neumann

    5. II. Siciliano

      Composer: Johann Sebastian Bach

      Ensemble: Prague Chamber Soloists

      Performer: Zuzana Růžičková

      Conductor: Václav Neumann

    6. III. Allegro

      Composer: Johann Sebastian Bach

      Ensemble: Prague Chamber Soloists

      Performer: Zuzana Růžičková

      Conductor: Václav Neumann

    7. I. [Allegro]

      Composer: Johann Sebastian Bach

      Ensemble: Prague Chamber Soloists

      Performer: Zuzana Růžičková

      Conductor: Václav Neumann

    8. II. Adagio e sempre piano

      Composer: Johann Sebastian Bach

      Ensemble: Prague Chamber Soloists

      Performer: Zuzana Růžičková

      Conductor: Václav Neumann

    9. III. Allegro

      Composer: Johann Sebastian Bach

      Ensemble: Prague Chamber Soloists

      Performer: Zuzana Růžičková

      Conductor: Václav Neumann

    10. I. Allegro moderato

      Composer: Johann Sebastian Bach

      Ensemble: Prague Chamber Soloists

      Performer: Zuzana Růžičková

      Conductor: Václav Neumann

    11. II. Larghetto

      Composer: Johann Sebastian Bach

      Ensemble: Prague Chamber Soloists

      Performer: Zuzana Růžičková

      Conductor: Václav Neumann

    12. III. Allegro ma non tanto

      Composer: Johann Sebastian Bach

      Ensemble: Prague Chamber Soloists

      Performer: Zuzana Růžičková

      Conductor: Václav Neumann

    13. I. Allegro moderato

      Composer: Johann Sebastian Bach

      Ensemble: Prague Chamber Soloists

      Performer: Zuzana Růžičková

      Conductor: Václav Neumann

    14. II. Largo

      Composer: Johann Sebastian Bach

      Ensemble: Prague Chamber Soloists

      Performer: Zuzana Růžičková

      Conductor: Václav Neumann

    15. III. Presto

      Composer: Johann Sebastian Bach

      Ensemble: Prague Chamber Soloists

      Performer: Zuzana Růžičková

      Conductor: Václav Neumann

    16. I. Allegro

      Composer: Johann Sebastian Bach

      Ensemble: Prague Chamber Soloists

      Performer: Zuzana Růžičková

      Conductor: Václav Neumann

    17. II. Andante

      Composer: Johann Sebastian Bach

      Ensemble: Prague Chamber Soloists

      Performer: Zuzana Růžičková

      Conductor: Václav Neumann

    18. III. Allegro assai

      Composer: Johann Sebastian Bach

      Ensemble: Prague Chamber Soloists

      Performer: Zuzana Růžičková

      Conductor: Václav Neumann

    19. I. (Allegro)

      Composer: Johann Sebastian Bach

      Ensemble: Prague Chamber Soloists

      Performer: Zuzana Růžičková

      Conductor: Václav Neumann

    20. II. Andante

      Composer: Johann Sebastian Bach

      Ensemble: Prague Chamber Soloists

      Performer: Zuzana Růžičková

      Conductor: Václav Neumann

    21. III. Allegro assai

      Composer: Johann Sebastian Bach

      Ensemble: Prague Chamber Soloists

      Performer: Zuzana Růžičková

      Conductor: Václav Neumann


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 her 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. This project included the Supraphon recording she made with conductor Václav Neumann and their ensemble at teh unsettled time of the Prague spring of 1968 and the subsequent invasion of the Soviet Army into Czechoslovakia. "The sessions had to be interrupted due to the occasional crack of gunfire or the rumble of tanks passing by the Rudolphinum." One thus might be tempted to label the recording "a historical document" and put in the archive drawers.