Through this third album for Artalinna, François Dumont invites us to take a second promenade at the heart of J.S. Bach’s keyboard works. Some of the Cantor of Leipzig’s famous works, either as originally written or subsequently transcribed by the Romantics (Prelude and Fugue in A minor, Chaconne for solo violin), offer a complete panorama of the composer’s style from his very early youth (Capriccio) to his full musical maturity (Italian Concerto). Here, as in his fi rst Bach volume, François Dumont offers a revitalized vision of polyphony and an astonishing diversity of expressions.

Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750)
Capriccio sopra la lontananza del suo fratello dilettissimo in B-flat Major, BWV 992
Italian Concerto in F Major, BWV 971
Prelude & Fugue in A Minor, BWV 543 (arr. Liszt, S. 462/1)
English Suite No. 3 in G Minor, BWV 808
Chaconne for Solo Violine, from Violin Partita No. 2 in D Minor BWV 1004 (trans. Busoni)

Recorded at Historischer Reitstadel, Neumarkt in der Oberpfalz (Bayern, Germany), 4 September 2016
A 24bit/96,0kHz recording by Frédéric Briant
Texts in English, German and French
Release date : January 2017, 16th
An album from the « Paesine » series