I've been told that someone asked Yo-Yo Ma, the great cellist, how he felt about playing six Bach unaccompanied suites for cello for a knowledgeable audience, as he just had that day. Didn't it make for stagefright?

"No. I've got something to share, and nothing to prove."

Although the questioner asked with reference to stagefright, it seems to me that his answer implicitly applies to the question that underlies this thread.

Dave Oesterreich