"•The ‘Italian’ Concerto and ‘French’ Overture included on this disc together make up the second part of Bach’s Clavier-Übung.
• The ‘Italian’ Concerto is full of allusions to the Italian orchestral concerto style, but the idiomatic keyboard writing shows the work’s conception as a virtuoso keyboard piece.
• The ‘French’ Overture’s opening movement is Bach's longest single keyboard movement. Steven Devine plays a double-manual harpsichord by Colin Booth (2000) after Fleischer (1710)."