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2024-01-26 08:41:00
Inspired by the example of Zuzana Ruzickova, one of the leading harpsichordists of the 20th century, the Ruzickova Composition Competition (founded by violinist Ada Witczyk) champions new music for period instruments. The fourth competition ran in 2023 with a judging panel that included Ada Witczyk, baroque violinist Simon Standage and festival manager Nick Hardisty.The winning pieces were performed live at Mercato Mayfair in October 2023 and recorded, Concerto in D minor by Klaus Miehling [see YouTube], Memories of Malacuesta by Isidro Albarreal Delgado [see YouTube], and Voices of Angels by An Vedi [see YouTube]. Isidro Albarreal Delgado's work also received the audience prize.Further information from Ada Witczyk's website.
2022-07-19 04:00:00
Mozart: Complete Piano Sonatas (Elżbieta Stefańska)
Mozart - Complete Piano Sonatas performed by Elżbieta Stefańska on a pianoforte WH-220 replica after Antonio Walter, Wien, ca 1795. Recorded and published in 1991 by Canyon Pony, Japan. Elżbieta Stefańska was born in Kraków, Poland, the daughter of the pianist Halina Czerny-Stefańska and piano professor Ludwik Stefański, her first teacher. She graduated from the National Music University, Kraków, in the harpsichord class of Hans Pischner, and in the following years participated in masterclasses in Siena and Weimar with Zuzana Růžičková, Ruggiero Gerlin, and others.She was awarded prizes in 1964 at the Łódź Early Music Competition in 1964 for her piano and harpsichord performance of baroque works. The following year she won the Principal Prize at the International Music Competition in Geneva, with the Henri Ghez award as the best harpsichord player.She is a professor at the National Music University of Kraków where she leads the harpsichord class and where, from 1981 […]
2020-04-13 08:35:00
No looking back...
Did you know that if you are a member of certain libraries you can read their stables of digital magazines online? I have a Westminster Libraries card, as it's my go-to resource for reference books, the music collection at Victoria and more, so nowadays when I have read every last word of The Guardian I can log in online and read The New Yorker instead. And I look at its font and imagine what life might have been like had I taken the other road of my Great 1997 Fork and moved over there for a job with a firm of music publicists. (I didn't. I stayed in London, got married and stuck with the writing. But I acknowledge that NY was a big dream and I didn't follow it.) COVID-19 lockdown is a strange place from which to contemplate the What-Ifs, which as ever are pointless. I had several […]
2019-09-12 19:13:20
In a memoir by Zuzana Ruzickova, the Czech harpsichordist who died in 2017, art persists through the