Borbála Dobozy's new album contains a varied selection of Johann Sebastian Bach's secular compositions for keyboard instruments.

'The instrument sounds heavenly and reveals a flexible, relaxed technique: the range of articulations and the sophistication of the agogics are remarkable, and the expression is always natural and pure', praised the reviewer Borbála Dobozy's previous Bach album in the French magazine Classica, which also granted its CHOC award to the recording.
After the Wohltemperiertes Klavier and the Little Preludes and Inventions, the harpsichordist has now compiled a selection of Bach's secular compositions for keyboard.
The second volume of Clavier-Übung (Keyboard Exercises) comprises two large-scale works: the Ouverture in B minor, a study of French musical style, which stands out among Bach's well-known English and French suites already with its sheer length, and the Italian Concerto, a transcription of an imaginary Italian concerto that brilliantly imitates the alternation of solos and orchestral passages typical of the genre on a single instrument.
The album continues with the Four Duets from the third volume of the Clavier-Übung, which can practically be described as a longer, more complex sequel to the two-part inventions, and the Chromatic Fantasia and Fugue, exerting an elemental effect on the listener with its romantic emotional exuberance and the extraordinary boldness of its harmonies even today.

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Track Listing

• French Overture - I. Ouverture
• French Overture - II. Courante
• French Overture - III. Gavotte I-II
• French Overture - IV. Passepied I-II
• French Overture - V. Sarabande
• French Overture - VI. Bourrée I-II
• French Overture - VII. Gigue
• French Overture - VIII. Echo
• Italian Concerto - I.
• Italian Concerto - II. Andante
• Italian Concerto - III. Presto
• Four Duets - I. Duet in E minor
• Four Duets - II. Duet in F Major
• Four Duets - III. Duet in G Major
• Four Duets - IV. Duet in A minor
• Chromatic Fantasia and Fugue - Fantasia
• Chromatic Fantasia and Fugue - Fugue

Additional Details

Label: BMC Records

Genre: Classical

Language: English

Run Time: 71:32 mins

Region: 0

Release Date: 10/10/25

UPC: 5998309303623