Very nice and very fast. I'm actually learning the same thing. It is so fun to play. I'm let's say to three quarters of the work to play it without mistakes (don't know how many hours it took me, ten ? fifteen ?) but I can hear that there is a lot of musical potential in this score and I'm really looking forward to play it fluidly, so that I can focus on the sound... I think that you're at a more progressed level in this piece than I actually am, but at the same time I'm quite sure we have a different approach to it. The first thing, and this is no critique, even if I would be "through" it now, I would play it slower, vivace, but slower. Lots of interesting effects get lost in playing it that fast. There are still a lot of 'slips and mistakes' in it, didn't count them but I think it could be easily like 6 or more. That should for me be a sign that I'm still distant from a good interpretation... It is in general slovenly. A wrong note is always a pity, but, I don't know if you feel the same way about that, a mistake in Bach sounds always so terribly striking. And certainly these smaller works (Goldberg Var., or preludes and fugues) have to be played totally faultless. I also make a clearer cut between the two 'bigger parts', not a stop, but just a little more distance. And then I can hear at least six inner sections in this variations, I also approach each of them differently, they have all their inner dynamics, their moods, that doesn't really come out in your rendition. For me a different music starts at bar 5, at bar 8 at bar 13, at bar 17, 20, 23 etcetera. And there is even a difference in mood between bar 14 and 15 etcetera... A prefer also a more cristal, mineral, copper-brass sound to it, and I certainly don't mean overdoing staccato. To end (you have African roots ?) there is a lot of let's call it 'funk' in this variations. For instance, that bass in the left hand in bar 9... There lots of funny ways to play that line... This variation really rocks.
I'll now do some ironing and than I'll get back to study.
Thanks for posting this, Kard, I love this music and I really enjoyed listening to you.