Richard Goode, piano soloist, Bach’s 6th English Suite in D Minor, 1st Movement

“My scores are often worksheets, filled with memoranda of hours spent evolving ideas about a piece. Bach’s keyboard music has very few phrasing, articulation, or dynamic signs, and so it is an endless challenge for the performer (or at least this performer) to find satisfying slurrings, groupings, stresses, and nuances (plus fingerings) that bring the music fully to life. Plus, what works one day or week may soon be superseded by a better idea. The resultant page is, frankly, a mess—or you could call it ‘the description of a struggle”.
– Richard Goode­­

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