claudiadm73 I hope you are doing well and I hope you are well enough to participate! 

Maria Thank you so much, Maria💕🌟🙏🏻.

claudiadm73 I do hope you feel well enough to participate! Take good care.

Fionna Zhang Ooh, nice! Looking forward to it.

chuck levin That Allemande is my favorite of all his Allemandes. The lyricism of that piece is off the charts. I remember when I learned it decades ago, back when I was a lad dreaming of becoming a harpsichordist. I once played it at night with the una corda. Nobody woke up! In the morning, my dad said he dreamt of being invited to a palace by a musician who played that piece. Probably my most cherished musical memory.

Noel Nguyen Wow, that's a great memory! I don't have anything close to your history with this, but your experience will motivate me to do a deeper dive with this.  I really like this Allemande a lot, so that helps.  Did you play the whole Partita on harpsichord? 

Noel Nguyen Have you ever played a harpsichord? 
 

chuck levin Maria Even though harpsichord music was my first piano-related passion, I sadly didn't have access to a harpsichord until some 10 years later, by which time I had moved on to my next passion, the typical piano virtuoso repertoire (romantic and late romantic). But when I finally got to try a harpsichord, I played quite a few of Bach's partita dances, including the aforementioned Allemande, with the most kitschy ornaments one could imagine, trilling every long note, delaying every right hand downbeat after the left, "notes-inégales'ing" every diatonic passage (mostly inappropriate in Bach, I know now), all the harpsichord clichés. And I loved it. But not to the point of abandoning the piano😅. Perhaps if I had had access at an earlier stage, when I still had the desire and courage to learn the true stylistic elements of baroque harpsichord playing instead of resorting to caricature, perhaps there would be a magnificent replica of a harpsichord where there dwells my beloved Baldwin concert grand now? Perhaps!

chuck levin Fantastic!