Borbála Dobozy - Clavier-übung Ii; Four Duets, Chromatic Fantasia And Fugue (CD)
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 altern