Bach Prelude & Fugue in A major BWV864

WTK I PROJECT - 10 This was by far the hardest time I had with a single prelude & fugue. Up until last night I still hadn't got it memorised; and that was because I had only managed to scrape past the last page. I was pretty blown over by Gulda's rendition of this fugue - he has an unmatched evenness in the semiquaver runs that (obviously) I fall far short of. The prelude here is contrapuntally conceived: Busoni calls it a Fughetta a tre soggetti ed a tre voci, a fughetta in three subjects and three voices. Which is an accurate description, though the subjects all begin at the same time and there is a lot of variation in the other two such that they seem more like subsidiary countersubjects instead. The fugue I took to be a pair of foreshortenings: one quiet and one rapid section each later treated in diminution. Those runs...those are the stuff of nightmares. Some pretty intense stuff right there. in the left hand. I will probably upload another recording of this, once the whole series is over: I have earmarked this as one I will re-practise.