VIDEOS: Bach and Ginastera

[cadenceiiv7i]

Any comments/suggestions are GREAATLY appreciated!!  

[j_menz]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a5ZVi3g4_Bw

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7F5Yj6Kjcs8

For the technically challenged.

Not familiar with the Ginastera, so will restrict my comments to the Bach.

You're at the slower end of tempi, but you make it work. I liked the Prelude very much.  My only suggestion would be that if you play it at this speed, the ornaments don't really work - they're too thin and break rather than enhance the flow. Play them more slowly, and consider whether doubling them, or substituting more complex ones, wouldn't achieve a better result.

In the fugue, I don't think the pace was quite as convincing - either a little faster or a little slower would work better IMO; given the Prelude, I'd probably choose a little faster for contrast, but tastes vary on this. I thought the pedalling was done more for support than effect, and at c 5:25 the pulse suddenly went out the window and didn't confidently re-establish itself for half a minute or more. Not disastrously, but it rather spoilt the flow for me. The rit. at the end started too early for my taste, and the contrast between the last written filigree and the trill was to great. Don't feel the need to rush that trill. IMO is should be in semiquavers.

Nice job, and the above quibbles are very minor only.