Piano Forum

Beautifully played. Admirable control, clarity, balance and musicality (this last quality was always apparent in your earlier samples). I also like the piano, which doesn't display any of the unpleasant defects that I often hear in many new instruments and recordings (a personal prejudice, I suppose).

I sense a considerable technical improvement since the last time you posted any of the Goldbergs but my conclusion may be influenced by other factors, for example, your speedier tempo in the first variation, so well handled.

However, if I remember rightly, the previous post included some original ornamentation that you've since eliminated. Perhaps it's too difficult to include such things at the new tempo? Were they improvised during the first recording? For myself, I don't think I could reliably throw in spontaneous ornaments in much of the Goldbergs because of the tendency for such things to disrupt the fingering, although certainly it would be easier to do so in the slower variations.

I was wondering how you chose these segments to post? Do they represent those which you've studied first, instead of working through the piece in a linear fashion? Just curious.

Anyway, keep up the good work and I'll look forward to hearing more as you go along.