Rockpeter, thanks for listening. You know, I'd have to go to the piano to be sure, but I think I play that RH trill thumb-3. (and if it's not that, then I'm playing thumb and 2) And I think I play the LH trill (the multi-measure one that comes up a few measures later) with thumb-2. Wow, it's funny how I can't really remember that unless I'm at the keyboard. I'll double-check later.

Mel, thanks for listening! The urtext doesn't have any tempo indications, but I reference the chart from the Palmer edition where he lists several tempo indictions from different editions and also the tempos as played by famous pianists. For example, for this invention, both Glenn Gould and Czerny choose MM=72 for the dotted quarter. The fastest tempo listed is 84, and the slowest is 52. It's been a while since I played this with a metronome, but I was up to around maye 58-62 at my fastest. However, I get really sloppy at that tempo, mistakes are frequent and trills are mushy! So I slowed it down in the few days before I recorded it, to bring it under control.

I also like to do comparative listening before I start work on an invention, and IIRC the one I liked the best was a recording by Schiff, he plays it at about MM=76. I prefer a slightly faster tempo for my own playing of this invention, butit's just not within my grasp yet.

SHIRO:[/b] good recording , Those inventions are really hard to play too. I tried to play one of Bachs' inventions several years ago but I gave up, it required too much brain coordination for me! :p

I'm certainly no expert. But, as a casual listener, I thought it was very nice and sounded like a rather technical piece which required quite a bit of work. Keep it up.

Arias, Tigers, thanks for listening!

Rockpeter, I played this Invention just now, and I do thumb-3 for thr RH trills and thumb-2 for the LH trills. Also, I wanted to point out that for the trill starting in measure 19, I start on the note above (D, was it?) and trill down, so to speak. For in the LH trills, I start on the note, and trill up. If that makes sense. For Bach, it's more "correct" to start trills on the note above, but for that LH trill my teacher and I decided it would be ok for me to break the rules a bit.