Tonebase Bach Stage

Katrina Wei Katrina you are worrying too much about mistakes! I have some familiarity with this fugue, having once got it to the point where I could play it somewhat fluently at a very slow tempo. In my first couple of listenings here, nothing jumped out at me as a "noticeable mistake"! I was instead so impressed by how you are keeping the voices so distinct from each other yet also integrated.  Especially the subject; each time it enters, it is singing through everything else that's going on. And at the same time those overlapping countersubjects are also distinct and clearly articulated.

So then I got out my trusty Henle Studien -edition and read along while you played, hunting for the alleged mistakes.  I THINK I spotted a couple of wrong notes, but it was not easy!  My point being that this is a really good performance and would be received as such by an audience of experienced musicians and even more so by the general public!   

I am the same way about my own mistakes (as undoubtedly most of us here are). In trying to produce a recording I will sometimes do dozens and dozens of takes, trying to weed out all the little errors and infelicities, and in the process devolve into a veritable mad man, cursing and fuming at myself, ready to throw the piano out the window if only I could lift it!.  Then later, I might be listening to some of these takes , such as while driving or on my walks, and I find myself thinking "now WHERE are those mistakes??" or "what exactly was it that I found so unacceptable here??"  With some distance and perspective, I'm often better able to hear them in the same way that I tend to listen to others' performances on this platform:  hearing the expression, the flow of emotion, and the muscical content, rather than focusing on the technical features.

So, bottom line, keep up the good work!