Gottlieb Muffat - Componimenti Musicali Per Il Cembalo (Complete) / Borbala Dobozy - harpsichord / Hungaroton 2x Audio CD 1992 Stereo / HCD31309-10

UPC 5991813130921

Tracklist:

CD 1   61:49
5 - 8.  Suite No.1 in C major R. 85—92   19:03
9 - 16. Suite No.2 in G minor R.93—100   19:47
17-24. Suite No.3 in D major R. 101—108   21:37

CD 2   71:44
1 - 9.  Suite No.4 in B flat major R. 109—117   23:48
10-17. Suite No.5 in D minor R. 118—125   16:46
18-26. Suite No.6 in G major R. 126—134   21:00
27.      Chaconne in G major R. 135   8:50
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• Harpsichord - Borbala Dobozy

BORBÁLA DOBOZY began higher education harpsichord studies with Zuzana Růžičková at the Academy of Music in Bratislava and then continued with her at the Prague Academy of Music. In the following years she studied historical performance practice: first at the Mozarteum in Salzburg under the guidance of Liselotte Brändle, Nikolaus Harnoncourt, and Johann Sonnleitner. She then studied for a year at the Zurich Academy of Music as a student of Johann Sonnleitner.

In 1983 she won a prize at the International Harpsichord Competition in Bruges, Belgium.

She has given courses in Hungary, Norway, Germany, Austria, Belarus, Slovenia and Serbia. From 2005 to 2013, she was a teacher at the “Brillamment baroque” course in early music, held annually in Thoiry, France. She has given concerts, and made recordings for radio and TV in most European countries and in the US. Borbála Dobozy’s artistic work focuses on the oeuvre of Johann Sebastian Bach: she has played almost all of his compositions for the harpsichord, including all the orchestral and chamber works. In 2010, her recording of the Goldberg Variations released in the Czech Republic earned high praise. The Czech music journal Hudební rozhledy wrote: “… Not only is the artist technically skilled, and thus able to play even the hardest variations with marvellous ease, but she also has a perfect feel for Bach’s music. Her thoughtful interpretation is based on the way she handles time, the tempo of each variation, and a detailed working out of articulation, which gives even more impetus to the pieces... it represents the highest standards of performance.”

Her repertoire encompasses almost the entire harpsichord literature, including twentieth-century and contemporary music. Several Hungarian composers (György Arányi-Aschner, Árpád Balázs, and Frigyes Hidas) have composed works for her, and consequently many premieres are linked to her name.

She is an associate professor at the Liszt Ferenc Academy of Music in Budapest, and head of the harpsichord class there. Her album of works by Gottlieb Muffat (Componimenti musicali per il cembalo) won the German Record Critics’ Prize in 1992.

In 2011 she received the Ferenc Liszt Prize. In 2013 she obtained a DLA degree. Her dissertation “Georg Anton Benda and his Harpsichord Sonatas” was published in book form in Hungarian and Czech (Magyar Kultúra Kiadó, 2014 and 2016) Since June 2017, she has been a corresponding member of the Music Section of the Hungarian Academy of Arts.