I believe one significant difference between playing Baroque and Romantic era pieces is that baroque works were not actually written for the piano, but romantic era pieces were very much written for it.
I think that IS a significant difference, even if it isn't quite always true. Only last week I was watching one of those videos pianostreet advertises at the top-the one on Andras Schiff and Bach.
Mr. Schiff spoke about how some of the music from the WTC simply HAD to be written with the piano in mind...as some of the written-out appoggiaturas would sound extremely unmusical on the harpsichord.
A few days after that, I was teaching a pupil who was studying a short Baroque work-Telemann, I think, was the composer. Something very similar came up.... something that we can make sound wonderful on the piano that would have been pretty clunky on harpsichord no matter how you did it.
At any rate, Baroque keyboard music was usually written just for 'keyboard'.
How is this in and of itself a difference? Musically, I mean, or philosophically, if you will....
What would we do differently, technically, or musically, as a result of something not being originally written for our modern instrument?
What could we do differently?
How would what we could do differ from what we would do?
