Fuge, Es Dur

Last week I uploaded Richter's Prelude in E flat major. Here's the fugue that goes with it.

The fugue goes well enough now. The prelude as well. It's playing them together in one go, without too many errors that is my challenge now. When played together they take almost 9 minutes. And playing 9 minutes without error is still beyond me. I have no idea how concert organists do that. Probably they have a better way of practising then I have. The frustrating part is that errors in my playing are random. It is not tied to difficult places. Those I can practise till they go smoothly. Playing a whole piece, however, I always make random mistakes in random places. Making recordings like this one, I just have to hope for a take where the mistakes are not too noticeable. And the longer the piece, the smaller the chances of that happening.

Well, I have the whole Sunday to try... :-)