Piano Forum

There's a thing called academic license in music. For the sake of braving thru the notes Presto first M can be played staccato L.H. 5-11 can be played staccato but the corresponding rh of this same measure is a mis of short legato/staccato. The speed disallows the hand to comply with the staccato treatment. Glenn Gould interestingly reads his music differently in a slight manner specially with treatment of chords in LH in broken style. Particularly too, the second movement of transcribed Oboe Concerto for piano D Minor has some nuances in the Adagio part, II M. Care to listen for it. While there is no stone inscribed rule on interpreting the embelisshments, the sound is just as majestic as Bach would have wanted to be.

Clearly, most of his pieces sound better in the piano the the harsh tones of harpsichords of their time. Given the change of development of the instrument, I'm sure most composers would have been delighted with the progress. In instrument and interpretation unless one is so eccentric to rule the day with strict following of written notes.

Much is to be discussed in the theory of this (embellishments) in music classrooms.

Curiously, there is phlethora of ways to play the second M, a haunting one.