Handel: "The Harmonious Blacksmith" - Zuzana Ruzickova, harpsichord
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- Опубліковано 21 жов 2024
- G. F. Handel (1685-1759): "The Harmonious Blacksmith" (Air and Variations in E major, from Suite No. 5, Book I)
Zuzana Ruzickova, harpsichord
Recorded November 1972
Zuzana Ruzickova: www.jsebestyen....
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She was a wonderful person and her playing was impeccable. It's a shame that we don't have recordings of her playing a proper harpsichord.
This recording is amazing. The sheer amount of color and expression she gets out of that instrument is astounding.
At 3:41 some of the tones sound almost like an organ! Fantastic!
nádherná hudba a její interpretace - skláním se před uměním paní Zuzany Růžičkové.
Absolute, utterly, unbelievably wonderful
This is the best harpsichord playing I have heard.
I agree she's fantastic! Have you heard this one? ua-cam.com/video/CFuxYOPTd6Y/v-deo.html
I don't know if she's the best ever, but it's sounds a lot like Bach ! Amazing!🤩🎶
you have clearly never heard much harpsichord music.
What beautiful dynamics!!
So clear, clean and exquisite!
Niesamowite jestem oczarowna to mistrzyni klawesynu jak wspaniale gra a do tego ukochana muzyka Haendla wspaniale
Stumbled on to this recently when listening to some Landowska. I keep returning to it, amazed by some of the finest harpsichord playing I've heard.
You dont know a hoot about harpsichords nor harpsichord repertoire
absolutely stunning
Amazing ! Greetings from Republic of Taiwan.
You mean China?
@@HenkVeenstra666 😆 My chinese dictionary, under the character "湾" (wan), says the character used in "taiwan province".
I like all the performances on youtube but I think this and ken barkers are most solid and capture the main idea.
just stumbled on this after, for nostalgia's sake listened to Landowska-how I first heard the piece-but this is a really wonderful playing here-maybe a little too closely miked-but just turn the volume down
A truly wonderful interpretation.
Love the sound of the harpsichord. What a nice piece. Wish it was also video recorded.
Еще в шестидесятые годы купила пластинку фирмы Супрафон - Вивальди (клавесин) , исполнитель Сусанна Ружичкова . Потом было много разных " клавесинных" исполнителей и разной музыки. Но она запомнилась как первая и как лучшая.
Nádherné. Ďakujem.
Pani Ružičková mala pred rokmi nádherný koncert v Žiline, na ktorý rada spomínam.
Great Harpsichord Performance.
Is this suite called as Suite No.5 in your country?
In Japan, this suite called as Suite No. 7, actually.
The E major Suite (HWV 430) is Suite No. 5 from the set of Eight "Great Suites" (HWV 426-33) published by Handel himself in 1720. The Suite in G minor (HWV 432) from this same collection is generally referred to as Suite No. 7.
SENSACIONAL...
Wonderful.
it`a my favorite song of a handel
음악카게히도리 Heedori it's not a song
Me too
J like thema and variation one and two but after , for me not for everyone , variations are too fast , in N-4 variation has a beautifull melody too fast we can't listen it
perfect
RIP Zuzana Ruzickova
I must say,very, very. difficult to choose between miss Ruzichova, and Vincenzi
I really don't like the sound of this instrument, even if it is very well played.
Too fast
But she "handel" it:-)
absolutely not too fast. its baroque music .... not some slow bossa nova or something. usually baroque music is played way too slow. e.g. glen gould and his horrid interpretation of bach ... aka completely raping bachs masterpieces.
To me this is a terrible noise. What an awful instrument! Practically no one born after 1950 plays or listens to this type of harpsichord any more. No one makes them. But plainly some people like it. Do you think these 20th century creations added something and that it's a shame they've died out? I would like to hear Ruzickova playing a historical instrument or one of the superb modern copies available nowadays. Does anyone know of such a recording?
137Newton Ruzickova was born in 1927 and this recording was made in Japan in 1972, so the choice of instrument is not surprising. Later in her career she made several recordings on copies of historical instruments. Here's one example: ua-cam.com/video/rmWDJ3QjIwk/v-deo.html
cembaloestje Thank you. I'm glad she did so and I honour her for not sticking to the type of instrument she made her career on. Not all pioneers are so adaptable.
137Newton This type of harpsichord was used by Wanda Landowska for the robustness of its iron frame. She travelled a great deal and this instrument was better suited to constant movement without the need for a full re-tuning for each concert. Also, the sound of the iron framed harpsichord projected into an auditorium with more authority than the beautifully spoken but very quiet traditional harpsichord with its wooden frame and gut strings. These days, digital sound amplification is effective and discrete so that's no longer an issue; in Wanda Landowska's and Violet Gordon-Woodhouse's time, it was heavy, bulky and obtrusive. Example - the equipment used to record the organ of Liverpool Cathedral in 1927 (on UA-cam) weighed about 5 tons and took the best part of a day to install.
+137Newton I agree the playing is lovely but I cannot stand the sound of these "modern" harpsichords by such as Pleyel. I think though to be fair that these instruments came before hte "historically informed" movement led by people like Gustav Leonhardt and performers like this lady and Landowska did not have access to re-builds of of great original instruments.
+Colin Gantiglew I've watched a UA-cam video with Skip Sempe demonstrating Landowska's own harpsichord. He says it goes out of tune just as easily as historical replicas and has less carrying power, though it does have more sustaining power. He missed the opportunity to give us a comparison though. The weight of Landowska's harpsichord would have made it less suitable for travelling surely?
Traditional harpsichords don't have gut strings. They use iron and brass strings. There are "lute harpsichords" that use gut strings, but they're a rarity.