Hi Miss Hewitt,
Thanks for your great music making, in concert and on records. With your busy schedule I doubt that you will have the time to answer my question, but I'll ask it anyway: based on your now vast experience of playing Bach and teaching Bach-playing, if you had to summarize, what would you say is the greatest difficulty in playing Bach? Is it choices of tempo, is it keeping a sense of dance in the dance-inspired movements, is it articulation (staccato vs legato and the many shades of staccato and legato), or has it to do with voicing and bringing out clearly the different strands of his contrapuntal writing?
I know it's a difficult one and it is probably impossible to synthesize in a few words such complex issues, but I'll be happy and honored to share your thoughts.
Best wishes
ER