Zuzana: Music is Life - A story of Love, Tyranny and Triumph Edition

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Recalling a life of love, tyranny and triumph, Zuzana Ruzickova endured forty years of persecution in Czechoslovakia for her refusal to join the Communist Party, while becoming a legendary harpsichordist and interpreter of Bach around the world. ‘I thought this must be some kind of a joke,’ she says of Communists replacing Nazis in 1948. ‘I was so wrapped up in my music, I didn’t care about politics; which was a great mistake of course.’ Crediting Bach – and a hundred miracles – with surviving countless horrors in Terezin, Auschwitz and Bergen-Belsen, Zuzana describes a ‘higher order that makes sense of life’ in Bach’s fugues. In 1956 she won the top award at the Munich Music Festival, which launched a fifty-year international career. Despite constant surveillance, marginal employment and confiscation of foreign currency wages by the Czech Communist Party, Zuzana became the only person in the world to record all of Bach's keyboard works – which he composed exclusively for harpsichord.

1: Capriccio in B-flat Major, BWV992
2: Fantasia in C Minor, BWV906
3: Toccata in G Minor, BWV915
4: Toccata in F-sharp Minor, BWV910

Composer: Johann Sebastian Bach

Number of Discs: 2

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