"Modern performers seem to regard their performances as texts rather than acts, and to prepare for them with the same goal as present-day textual editors: to clear away accretions. This performance would come from October of 2010. It sounds very busy, but there's quite a lot of clarity in this performance. This 5-voice fugue was quite difficult to learn, but I'm rather happy with how it sounds. Tap along to the quarter note, and it isn't a speedy beat! If I encountered any resistance, I maintained that it wasn't really 'faster', my performance, it was just in the proper meter. Anyone who was very familiar with the piece clearly noticed the difference. I played it this way in a couple competitions, as well as for other teachers in studio classes, lessons, and a few commented on it, a few didn't. My teacher wanted certain harmonic tensions and resolutions in place but he was willing to go along with it. Then the picardy third that follows isn't so much a ray of sunshine as it is a sarcastic "well, whatever", still angry. The piece drives forward, barely relenting, until you reach the climactic diminished 7th chord right around 0:58.
And so as I adjusted my performance to align to a quarter-note pulse, the piece changed from the brooding, introspective piece to a very angry, agitated one.
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