He really is the greatest organist in the World. Perhaps the greatest ever. Thank you Cameron for allowing the rest of us, green with envy, to witness such great talent...
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This guy is spell-binding in his work. Highly recommend if you like organ music and the demonstration of extreme talent one could only dream about having.
So many people seem to love to grip about Cameron and I have not loved all of his arrangements but this was really nice. Fun to watch because you can really see what he’s doing. Not everybody can operate a beast like that, he’s pretty good. He is playing three keyboards at least three keyboards at the same time.
CC obviously has complete awareness about the choices he makes. I am always impressed that he is able to deliver clarity of the score through the way he orchestrates the passages. Obviously his mastery of the pieces he plays is undeniable. However I think sometimes this overzealous penchant to constantly play the presets as well as the music gets in the way of the music, and he probably is aware of this anyway. I‘m not as familiar with this piece as some other Bach organ pieces, so I can‘t really criticize on that level, but he adds notes in other pieces which is amazing enough on its own, that to me clutter things up a bit, and it sometimes tends towards a sideshow of sorts rather than drives forward with the relentless nature of Bach‘s music, which is more like a metal band than a carnival to me. But, as I said, CC makes his choices with full awareness, he knows what he is doing, and is quite capable of performing everything he plays in all manner of ways, that is why I absolutely love what he does. He is an explorer of possibilities as much as he is a master of music and he is not afraid to explore them with the public.
Love how we can really hear all the dfferent voices, because of the timbres he uses. It may not be so grandious as we used to when listening listening to from a pipe organ but i like it. Strangely good
As a musician who plays pianos keys and guitar I must give Cameron my blessing one of the best organist on earth and this is coming from a Jamaican music producer
This is outstanding. I mean the piece itself is obv unimpeachable, that interpretation is truly imaginative and exciting and that performance has to be the result of countless hours of meticulous practice combined with amazing talent. 10/10
He is a consummate musician and performer.. these videos don’t really capture the true Sonics of this instrument. I offered to record his performance in immersive 12.1 Surround last year in LA. I still regret that it did not work out. A VR of him would be extraordinary.🎶🎹
Went to concert of his in Burlington Canada April 2018: Loved it. I'm as conservative as it gets but his freedom to improvise on Bach of all people is amazing. How anyone could write negatively here is beyond my understanding. Bravo to you & your GENIUS!
with all respect, his "freedom" comes, not from him, but from the "rules" of the baroque era itself. interpretation was LEFT TO THE PERFORMER. that said, no one hesitates to deride virgil fox for doing the SAME THING.
If we drop the some expression and leave a terrific phrasings , we are got a very interesting Bachs reading . For Me as a proponent of classical perception, his articulation is very close to me. Thanks Carpenter!
He is the most impressive player i've heard, I could watch and listen all day. His talent blows my mind and if he is to ever come to Arizona i'll be there!
I think live recordings on an electronic digital organ like this have too many hybrid sounds that are more annoying than most of us are ready for. Furthermore, I think they detract from the genius that you are. A Rogers with midi capabilities might show off your true intentions even better. Regardless, I think you are shaking the world and breathing new life into the whole world of music. Bless you on your way into the creation of 'that' perfect instrument your soul already hears and knows... that shall be. Sincerely. CVD
Charles Davis, the organ sounds like it does because he designed it to sound and perform as it does! The experimental pipe sounds, some which had not been thought of until Cameron thought of them first had never been executed until now. After stuck playing organs by Rodgers, Allen, Johannus and several other digital builders, he was wasn't satisfied until he had his own instrument reflecting his tonal ideals.
I have a lot of respect for J. S. - Bach🙏 That guy was, I don't know how to subscribe. Bach had completely different view. Really complex and so many dimensions. It is also so organic and flows in a peaceful way. Thank You Cameron🙏😊
Did any of you critics actually attend one of Cameron's performances? If not, I would suggest that you do so, because you are missing not only a great musical performance, but also one of the best ambassadors for classical music that I've seen in a long, long time. One may argue with Cameron's "impure" style of play and his heretical organ. But having attended baroque music performances for about 40 years, I would say his performance and the ITO was absolutely fantastic. And his extemporaneous talk was remarkable. Equally important was the diversity of the crowd. If one attends a Bach Festival anywhere, you will likely see me... and the same bunch of old white people with walkers (my peers). I saw Cameron at both Stanford and SF Jazz and the audience was full of all kinds and ages of people, fully engaged and enthralled-- hence the standing ovations. Every young person he introduces to Bach or Scriabin (yes... on the organ), is a new convert to both classical music and the joys of the organ. I will see him and the ITO every chance I get. I encourage you to do the same.
joseph graif a fugue as guiltily self-indulgent as that perhaps warrants some artistic wandering, or perhaps, I suppose, he could just be... no there’s no way he could a HUMAN BEING with physical limitations, sentience and irrational yet sincere emotions.
Carpenter's music is one of the very few I absolutely can't listen to on RUclips. The first time I heard him was live in Berlin, and compared to that the sound quality on RUclips is just awful. Despite this particular video having a very high quality on the YT scale, there is still too much missing.
Thirianna I agree....it sounds stilted and affected. There is simply no need to jump around changing sounds.....Bach is continuum...trance like in its ascendant quality. This interpretation is more about showing off than expressing Bach’s heart and soul.
GradeAoverA I have just listened to the opening bars of Toccata & Fugue by Maestro Biggs and I cannot quite understand why his playing has breaths and staccato notes when Bach didn’t not indicate that. I play this piece myself on the organ and to me it needs to be completely legato, seamless in it’s linking to bring out and carry the emotion on a wave that is the beautiful musical journey Bach created!
GradeAoverA well, the whole point of composing for organ is to invoke a deep vast emotional palette (as opposed to harpsichord which invokes something other.) Bach might be open to interpretation but once you p,at him you get the feeling that it should be a seamless flow of legato....as much as is humanly possible without ‘smudging’ notes. It recoil from staccato and superfluous tempo changes ....I.e. trying to overly emote when the music does it for you if played evenly with the required dynamics. So, you’ve made me think Mr. Grade A!! Isn’t it hard to comprehend his productive output, his massive body of work.....in the days pre-printer, pre-auto transport, pre-internet....all the challenges of writing and notating in damp barely-lit churches!?!! Happy Easter!
Saw C.C. twice in Houston TX. The church organ IN CHRIST CHURCH CATHEDRAL and his mobile instrument!. Carpenter has become a touchstone to the classical for me.
We're certainly all entitled to our opinion, but no one can argue with this man's talent, intellect, or with the fact he derives the most out of the instrument. People may disagree on musical style, or choice of registration, etc. But these issues are a matter of subjective opinion. No one ever made a monument to a critic. The main purpose of music will always be to move and inspire the soul. This man's music accomplishes this for many people, inspiring many who would usually never give the organ the time of day. As a professional musician, my personal style and preference in music tends to be much more conservative, but it is easy for me to recognize and appreciate this man's contributions. Well done, Cameron.
'No one ever made a monument to a critic.' - Guess you've never heard of Immanuel Kant, or any other famous critic then. Far more famous than this idiot will ever be. Also you're projecting his stilted speech into being intellectual. He is not an intellectual, he is a sociopath / psychopath, the stilted speech is symptomatic of it. Listen to his mother speak (he's obviously a child of a single mother, look at him, so father is out of the question) and then listen to him. Note a difference? Wonder why? Stilted speech.
I think Bach would of been enchanted with what Camron has done with this piece.... to those detractors.... (if you can do better then Camron then I suggest you put forth a challenge to him.... Im sure he would be glad accept the challenge) Thank You Camron for sharing your talents... You are a God sent in a day and age of pessimism...
This is insane and I love it, but he missed switching on the big pipes for the pedal entry at 11:02, you can see the quick way he recovers it, but even .5 seconds is too late for this kind of music and these entries. This is the point in the composition where the descending sequence of notes that Bach has picked out of the main fugue begins to infuse the rest of the work and drives it to the stunning climax.
For me, this guy is about 40 years too late, as fellow countryman (Carlo Curley) was touring the UK in the late 70's with his Allen Digital Touring Organ which cost around £50,000 back then. He would regularly fill the Alexandra Palace Great Hall with an audience of 4000 people on a Sunday afternoon, whilst also introducing other amazing artists to play at the same time such as Jane Parker Smith, Nicholas Kynaston and Pierre Cochereau to name but three! And if you want to go back even further then Virgil Fox who was Carlo's teacher was doing the very same thing a generation before that
hi guy,,,,,, wonderful once again,,, i love your playing so much. In the past i've not been nice to you with comments,,, sorry. Only reason why, is because i'm jealous, Hope all is well.
I still like real baroque instruments. You can sample till the cows come home but never duplicate real instruments. I'm not complaining because this guy is good on his instrument and will listen to all his recordings on youtube. It's guys like this that can bring classical music back into the mainstream. You go Cameron Carpenter! We will be watching.
@@ronb6182 and what modern instrumentalists are playing "real baroque" instruments? not joshua bell or evgeny kissin. why is the organ held to a different standard? please explain...
Well he is right this is a "different" performance from anything I have ever heard. Of course I have heard him play this work live at the Cathedral in Biltmore NC when he was about 16 and that was a bit more traditional.
Mix Claire Coci's fashionable transparent organ bench and snobery plus Anthony Newman's "unequal notes" and Virgil Fox's verve or nerve and you get Cameron Carpenter!
@@embott1 it's not " liberty with the actual text", it's really a memory lapse but he tried to fix it with a small improvised part. And he did the best what he could do in this situation.
Same here. I thought why not. After I've heard it, it's simply: why... It's painfully bad. (And now I understand why I've never heard his name before here, in Europe.)
Tbh I'm glad h3h3 lead me here. His compositions are pretty good. I mean the vid h3h3 showed may have had him look like a bowie wanna be douche but his playing and writing is pretty darn well arranged
@@sureevennot3418 i dont see how it is a bad thing, he took early baroque and medieval and made them three times more advanced so it wasnt understood until hundreds of years later, you probably dont know what you are talking about, mainstream baroque music was boring and extremely repetitive outside of a few composers like Bach
Difficult to find a performance of 544 online that's up to speed; everyone seems to be struggling with it, even Ton Koopman (here), the king of the Bach trill. ruclips.net/video/Db9DR-bmb2A/видео.html Mr Carpenter is right about one thing: this fugue, like many another of Bach's, proceeds toward a wonderful crescendo. I just prefer the composer's straightforward approach (if you will,) not anyone's romantic pastiche of same.
He is the musician and can have his own interpretation of bach or other composers. I don't necessarily know where I stand because this is all new to me.
Based. If you like his tempo and attitude towards Bach you'll love Anthony Newman too, he is a bit more conservative but not enaugh to miss the kind of criticism that targets Carpenter too.
I have heard keyboard purists say the pipe organ is too mechanical to express real emotion, that piano only allows for true expression because while also mechanical, it allows nuances the pipe organ cannot. Well this instrument and Cameron's genius lay that argument to rest, buried too deep to be used again by honest purists. This piece demonstrates this perfectly and gloriously. One hasn't lived until the sound of a fully opened pipe organ rattles your sternum and the sound waves emanating from the pipes feel like your very cells are being rearranged. This organ does that magnificently!
Hm, that organ...... I here thousand times more preferred the Cavaillé Coll in st ouen than that plastic sound box. It might be a very expensive sampling box, but I'm not confidented about that.
Tbh I think it is mostly the power of the sound that is missing especially in this recording of the organ. As far as digital recordings you can only go so far since the sound of an organ is most pronounced with the 3d separation of the sounds. In his album work, it sounds so much better in headphones than this recording or any other recordings of organs' sound.
in reviewing all the comments, what is lost is the fact that the organ is in DIRE need of an advocate that can bring the instrument to the general public, like joshua bell does with the violin. cameron carpenter is NOT that person...
@@josephgraif2588 You'd be surprised how many Millennials and Gen Zs have subscribed to my channel so far. It's rather encouraging that there's still those in the younger age bracket that loves the organ.
josephgraif, quote: «virgil fox did this over 50 years ago…» No, he didn’t. In this fugue, sometimes Cameron play the soprano, alto and tenor part on three different manuals! And Cameron’s virtuoso pedal is lightyears abowe Fox’s.
I've never seen an organist play with a hand spanning 2 different manuals. Of course, my Mom played an organ with only 2 manuals. This was very expressive and harmonically pleasant.
Yep, there's one video of Wanamakers where you see Peter Richard Conte playing a big Wagner transcription, with his hands at one point on manuals 2 and 5, thumbing down to 1 and 4 AND fingering up to 3 and 6...
YES, CAMERON, YOU ARE CERTAINLY BRILLIANT, BUT, THE B MINOR FUGUE IS ONE OF BACHS GREAT WORKS AND YOUR VOICING WITH VARIOUS UGLY STOPS ETC. HAS DONE ALL BUT TO RUIN THIS PIECE WHICH OTHERWISE I LOVE. HERE I DIDN´T I JUST WONDER WHY TO DO SOMETHING SO BIZARRE WHEN YOU WELL KNOW BETTER THAN. THIS YOU ARE PLLAYING BACH AND NOT CAMERON. MAKES ME SAD TO SEE SUCH TALENT SPOILED IN THIS WAY.
He has become my favorite organist on RUclips, The first time I heard him perform was Bach's Toccata and Fugue in D Minor, one of the standard works for accomplished organists. I had never heard it played the way he performed it, and I have heard it at least 50 times, not including the numerous times I myself performed it. I found myself giving him a "dislike", something I rarely ever do. Ten minutes later I changed it to a "Like", and have never looked back. Mr. Carpenter is a tremendous artist and his virtuosity at the organ cannot be questioned, even by those purists who think that a performer should mechanically play the notes on the sheet music. I am never disappointed in his artistry and am somewhat disappointed that there are those like Thirianna who cannot appreciate the talent of this man. Oh well, her loss.
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He really is the greatest organist in the World. Perhaps the greatest ever. Thank you Cameron for allowing the rest of us, green with envy, to witness such great talent...
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Thanks, Sir Elton, for directing me to this sublime artist. Love you Elton!
This guy is spell-binding in his work. Highly recommend if you like organ music and the demonstration of extreme talent one could only dream about having.
yes - but in a NIGHTMARE
So many people seem to love to grip about Cameron and I have not loved all of his arrangements but this was really nice. Fun to watch because you can really see what he’s doing. Not everybody can operate a beast like that, he’s pretty good. He is playing three keyboards at least three keyboards at the same time.
playing 3 manuals and the pedals all whilst operating various presets and stops on the fly.
@@jhonwask thats pretty normal for an organist
My favorite organist!!!I have never heard Bach so emotional like this before!Thank you CC.We hope you visit Nigeria someday soon
please find some performances by virgil fox and compare...
CC obviously has complete awareness about the choices he makes. I am always impressed that he is able to deliver clarity of the score through the way he orchestrates the passages. Obviously his mastery of the pieces he plays is undeniable. However I think sometimes this overzealous penchant to constantly play the presets as well as the music gets in the way of the music, and he probably is aware of this anyway. I‘m not as familiar with this piece as some other Bach organ pieces, so I can‘t really criticize on that level, but he adds notes in other pieces which is amazing enough on its own, that to me clutter things up a bit, and it sometimes tends towards a sideshow of sorts rather than drives forward with the relentless nature of Bach‘s music, which is more like a metal band than a carnival to me. But, as I said, CC makes his choices with full awareness, he knows what he is doing, and is quite capable of performing everything he plays in all manner of ways, that is why I absolutely love what he does. He is an explorer of possibilities as much as he is a master of music and he is not afraid to explore them with the public.
You are being way to kind. This miscreant is completely deranged and is PLAYING US.
Love how we can really hear all the dfferent voices, because of the timbres he uses. It may not be so grandious as we used to when listening listening to from a pipe organ but i like it. Strangely good
As a musician who plays pianos keys and guitar I must give Cameron my blessing one of the best organist on earth and this is coming from a Jamaican music producer
This is outstanding. I mean the piece itself is obv unimpeachable, that interpretation is truly imaginative and exciting and that performance has to be the result of countless hours of meticulous practice combined with amazing talent. 10/10
DERANGED
Cameron is a badass. IDGAF what u say
Say what you want - he is an artist
Love what u do, esp bcoz its radically different. Not conservative. Bravo
isn't bach as conservative as it gets? lol
He is a consummate musician and performer.. these videos don’t really capture the true Sonics of this instrument. I offered to record his performance in immersive 12.1 Surround last year in LA. I still regret that it did not work out. A VR of him would be extraordinary.🎶🎹
Sir Elton John brought me here, who speaks very highly of Carpenter. Sir John compares Carpenter to the likes of JS Bach and Virgil Fox.
the ultimate interpretation. Die letztendlichen Auslegung! 😊
Went to concert of his in Burlington Canada April 2018: Loved it. I'm as conservative as it gets but his freedom to improvise on Bach of all people is amazing. How anyone could write negatively here is beyond my understanding. Bravo to you & your GENIUS!
with all respect, his "freedom" comes, not from him, but from the "rules" of the baroque era itself. interpretation was LEFT TO THE PERFORMER. that said, no one hesitates to deride virgil fox for doing the SAME THING.
@@josephgraif2588 your profile picture looks fake.
Agreed!
you are not conservative, my friend
Eine Reklame ist ein Barbarismus! Unmőglich!
If we drop the some expression and leave a terrific phrasings , we are got a very interesting Bachs reading . For Me as a proponent of classical perception, his articulation is very close to me. Thanks Carpenter!
I can't believe how tame the applause is at the end.
It might be shock
ganz grosse Klasse. Herr Carpenter ist sicher einer oder der bedeutendste Organist der Jetzt-Zeit!!
still sounds incredible despite what people may say honestly.
I was at that concert! Just wonderful!
He is the most impressive player i've heard, I could watch and listen all day. His talent blows my mind and if he is to ever come to Arizona i'll be there!
I have always loved Bach's organ works. I could only imagine would he could do with a modern pipe organ.
virgil fox proposed the same over 50 years ago and nobody supported him. why support this fraud now?
I came here not expecting to hear such talent! Good job mate
I think live recordings on an electronic digital organ like this have too many hybrid sounds that are more annoying than most of us are ready for. Furthermore, I think they detract from the genius that you are. A Rogers with midi capabilities might show off your true intentions even better. Regardless, I think you are shaking the world and breathing new life into the whole world of music. Bless you on your way into the creation of 'that' perfect instrument your soul already hears and knows... that shall be. Sincerely. CVD
Charles Davis, the organ sounds like it does because he designed it to sound and perform as it does! The experimental pipe sounds, some which had not been thought of until Cameron thought of them first had never been executed until now. After stuck playing organs by Rodgers, Allen, Johannus and several other digital builders, he was wasn't satisfied until he had his own instrument reflecting his tonal ideals.
absolutely mindblowing talent!
and so why does he fail, continually, to represent the organ to the general public as joshua bell does the violin?
Thank you for your performance with the Minnesota orchestra on April 20, 2018. It was awesome!
I have a lot of respect for J. S. - Bach🙏 That guy was, I don't know how to subscribe. Bach had completely different view. Really complex and so many dimensions. It is also so organic and flows in a peaceful way.
Thank You Cameron🙏😊
Vous êtes formidable, merci, quel plaisir
Beautiful! 🌹
Did any of you critics actually attend one of Cameron's performances? If not, I would suggest that you do so, because you are missing not only a great musical performance, but also one of the best ambassadors for classical music that I've seen in a long, long time. One may argue with Cameron's "impure" style of play and his heretical organ. But having attended baroque music performances for about 40 years, I would say his performance and the ITO was absolutely fantastic. And his extemporaneous talk was remarkable. Equally important was the diversity of the crowd. If one attends a Bach Festival anywhere, you will likely see me... and the same bunch of old white people with walkers (my peers). I saw Cameron at both Stanford and SF Jazz and the audience was full of all kinds and ages of people, fully engaged and enthralled-- hence the standing ovations. Every young person he introduces to Bach or Scriabin (yes... on the organ), is a new convert to both classical music and the joys of the organ. I will see him and the ITO every chance I get. I encourage you to do the same.
Why would I want to pay good money to hear him mangle Bach like this?!
yes... i watched him become "lost" in the d major fugue and repeat a 16-bar sequence three times, wearing his shredded t-shirt and cowboy boots.
No one here is saying he isn't talented, or isn't an ambassador. Just that he's pretentious af.
joseph graif a fugue as guiltily self-indulgent as that perhaps warrants some artistic wandering, or perhaps, I suppose, he could just be... no there’s no way he could a HUMAN BEING with physical limitations, sentience and irrational yet sincere emotions.
Fantastic
Carpenter's music is one of the very few I absolutely can't listen to on RUclips. The first time I heard him was live in Berlin, and compared to that the sound quality on RUclips is just awful. Despite this particular video having a very high quality on the YT scale, there is still too much missing.
Thirianna I agree....it sounds stilted and affected. There is simply no need to jump around changing sounds.....Bach is continuum...trance like in its ascendant quality. This interpretation is more about showing off than expressing Bach’s heart and soul.
You completely misinterpreted what OP was saying, Melissa.
GradeAoverA Thank you. I’m not alone with my critical ear then?!
GradeAoverA I have just listened to the opening bars of Toccata & Fugue by Maestro Biggs and I cannot quite understand why his playing has breaths and staccato notes when Bach didn’t not indicate that. I play this piece myself on the organ and to me it needs to be completely legato, seamless in it’s linking to bring out and carry the emotion on a wave that is the beautiful musical journey Bach created!
GradeAoverA well, the whole point of composing for organ is to invoke a deep vast emotional palette (as opposed to harpsichord which invokes something other.) Bach might be open to interpretation but once you p,at him you get the feeling that it should be a seamless flow of legato....as much as is humanly possible without ‘smudging’ notes. It recoil from staccato and superfluous tempo changes ....I.e. trying to overly emote when the music does it for you if played evenly with the required dynamics. So, you’ve made me think Mr. Grade A!! Isn’t it hard to comprehend his productive output, his massive body of work.....in the days pre-printer, pre-auto transport, pre-internet....all the challenges of writing and notating in damp barely-lit churches!?!! Happy Easter!
Saw C.C. twice in Houston TX. The church organ IN CHRIST CHURCH CATHEDRAL and his mobile instrument!. Carpenter has
become a touchstone to the classical for me.
We're certainly all entitled to our opinion, but no one can argue with this man's talent, intellect, or with the fact he derives the most out of the instrument. People may disagree on musical style, or choice of registration, etc. But these issues are a matter of subjective opinion. No one ever made a monument to a critic. The main purpose of music will always be to move and inspire the soul. This man's music accomplishes this for many people, inspiring many who would usually never give the organ the time of day. As a professional musician, my personal style and preference in music tends to be much more conservative, but it is easy for me to recognize and appreciate this man's contributions. Well done, Cameron.
well said. i can see how it's really easy to hate on the dude (see h3h3's react vid) but you can't deny the guy has a lot of talent.
'No one ever made a monument to a critic.' - Guess you've never heard of Immanuel Kant, or any other famous critic then. Far more famous than this idiot will ever be. Also you're projecting his stilted speech into being intellectual. He is not an intellectual, he is a sociopath / psychopath, the stilted speech is symptomatic of it. Listen to his mother speak (he's obviously a child of a single mother, look at him, so father is out of the question) and then listen to him. Note a difference? Wonder why? Stilted speech.
He's a twat, but a talented twat. He ain't gonna change jack shit.
I'm arguing with his talent and intellect. He's a pretentious twat without an ounce of musicality.
musically tho it sucks , it sounds like it has been played by car horns harmonizing in traffic
I think Bach would of been enchanted with what Camron has done with this piece.... to those detractors.... (if you can do better then Camron then I suggest you put forth a challenge to him.... Im sure he would be glad accept the challenge) Thank You Camron for sharing your talents... You are a God sent in a day and age of pessimism...
This is insane and I love it, but he missed switching on the big pipes for the pedal entry at 11:02, you can see the quick way he recovers it, but even .5 seconds is too late for this kind of music and these entries. This is the point in the composition where the descending sequence of notes that Bach has picked out of the main fugue begins to infuse the rest of the work and drives it to the stunning climax.
For me, this guy is about 40 years too late, as fellow countryman (Carlo Curley) was touring the UK in the late 70's with his Allen Digital Touring Organ which cost around £50,000 back then. He would regularly fill the Alexandra Palace Great Hall with an audience of 4000 people on a Sunday afternoon, whilst also introducing other amazing artists to play at the same time such as Jane Parker Smith, Nicholas Kynaston and Pierre Cochereau to name but three! And if you want to go back even further then Virgil Fox who was Carlo's teacher was doing the very same thing a generation before that
Pretty amazing!
I love BACH so much that even the changes to me wonderful and I think the great man would have enjoyed the performance
hi guy,,,,,, wonderful once again,,, i love your playing so much. In the past i've not been nice to you with comments,,, sorry. Only reason why, is because i'm jealous, Hope all is well.
Always such inspiration performances by Cameron Carpenter. :)
Bach was from a different universe. A gift from the heavens. Much like Einstein.
agreed! timeless music, that continues to be re-imagined.
Makes me wonder what Bach would be able to do with a modern organ.
Or with an Electric guitar. Or a synthesizer. Maybe even just modern grand pianos
I still like real baroque instruments. You can sample till the cows come home but never duplicate real instruments. I'm not complaining because this guy is good on his instrument and will listen to all his recordings on youtube. It's guys like this that can bring classical music back into the mainstream. You go Cameron Carpenter! We will be watching.
Much more than this. :D
Lurker1979 Exactly!!
@@ronb6182 and what modern instrumentalists are playing "real baroque" instruments? not joshua bell or evgeny kissin. why is the organ held to a different standard? please explain...
Some of the stops he's playing reminds me of the sound of the grand organ of the Basilica of sts. Peter and Paul.
Well he is right this is a "different" performance from anything I have ever heard. Of course I have heard him play this work live at the Cathedral in Biltmore NC when he was about 16 and that was a bit more traditional.
Cameron Carpenter...O Melhor do Mundo....
This is amazing! I don't know anything about music but it sounds like there's an entire orchestra playing
Sir Elton John brought me here from his interview on Classic FM
OMG me too!
Same lol
Mix Claire Coci's fashionable transparent organ bench and snobery plus Anthony Newman's "unequal notes" and Virgil Fox's verve or nerve and you get Cameron Carpenter!
but it is a prelude and fugue, not only fugue
bwv 544 for those who wonder
I was at your private concert today for zansville schools
It looks like he has a memory lapse and improvises a major part of the end of the fugue...
YES! This isn't Bach's text. WTF
Yeah. He’s done that before. He takes some liberty with the actual text.
@@embott1 it's not " liberty with the actual text", it's really a memory lapse but he tried to fix it with a small improvised part. And he did the best what he could do in this situation.
Very funny.
Bogdan Reincke His problem happened because of a registration glitch,
Hello Cameron,I really love your style of play, especially with the pedals! Anyways, could I make a special request?
He may seem a little insane but he’s obv very good.
He's absolutely brilliant 😊
Genius. Nuff said. Genius
the h3h3 video bought me here
Jason Leonard lol me too and the guy is pretentious as fuck but I’m actually digging this....
Jason Leonard Papa bless...
Same here. I thought why not. After I've heard it, it's simply: why... It's painfully bad. (And now I understand why I've never heard his name before here, in Europe.)
@@vecseisz1365 he's compositions are pretty good... But then again. Not everyone appreciate organs because of their sound. I don't blame you
Tbh I'm glad h3h3 lead me here. His compositions are pretty good. I mean the vid h3h3 showed may have had him look like a bowie wanna be douche but his playing and writing is pretty darn well arranged
Loved every second🌹
Hated every single note 🤮
@@sureevennot3418 someone has no knowledge about musical harmony
@@IceKrabik Someone has no idea what Bach's music is. He made a lampoon of baroque music.
@@sureevennot3418 i dont see how it is a bad thing, he took early baroque and medieval and made them three times more advanced so it wasnt understood until hundreds of years later, you probably dont know what you are talking about, mainstream baroque music was boring and extremely repetitive outside of a few composers like Bach
It's Prélude and Fugue in B minor actually
Difficult to find a performance of 544 online that's up to speed; everyone seems to be struggling with it, even Ton Koopman (here), the king of the Bach trill. ruclips.net/video/Db9DR-bmb2A/видео.html
Mr Carpenter is right about one thing: this fugue, like many another of Bach's, proceeds toward a wonderful crescendo. I just prefer the composer's straightforward approach (if you will,) not anyone's romantic pastiche of same.
He is the musician and can have his own interpretation of bach or other composers. I don't necessarily know where I stand because this is all new to me.
Based.
If you like his tempo and attitude towards Bach you'll love Anthony Newman too, he is a bit more conservative but not enaugh to miss the kind of criticism that targets Carpenter too.
there's no doubt this guy is extremely talented, but this definitely sounds like it's straight out of the stardew valley soundtrack
good taste brought me here - super
It s like hearing angels singing. So beautiful. Amazing.
I hope I will play organ ones.
Johann Sebastian Bach - Prelude and Fugue in B minor BWV 544 (1731)
I have heard keyboard purists say the pipe organ is too mechanical to express real emotion, that piano only allows for true expression because while also mechanical, it allows nuances the pipe organ
cannot. Well this instrument and Cameron's genius lay that argument to rest, buried too deep to be used again by honest purists.
This piece demonstrates this perfectly and gloriously. One hasn't lived until the sound of a fully opened pipe organ rattles your sternum and the sound waves emanating from the pipes feel like your very cells are being rearranged. This organ does that
magnificently!
I thought the row of keys lowest are only for decoration till he tapped them.
Amaaazing. Is he also playing from memory??
The guy just missed his first order as a youth and buyed 888 keys piano, so he just learnt to play this way
Que maravilla de hombre
Call me ignorant, though this performance is not too bad at all. I don't get what's with the hate going on in the comments. 😕
Hm, that organ...... I here thousand times more preferred the Cavaillé Coll in st ouen than that plastic sound box. It might be a very expensive sampling box, but I'm not confidented about that.
Tbh I think it is mostly the power of the sound that is missing especially in this recording of the organ. As far as digital recordings you can only go so far since the sound of an organ is most pronounced with the 3d separation of the sounds. In his album work, it sounds so much better in headphones than this recording or any other recordings of organs' sound.
in reviewing all the comments, what is lost is the fact that the organ is in DIRE need of an advocate that can bring the instrument to the general public, like joshua bell does with the violin. cameron carpenter is NOT that person...
If there were a demand for the instrument, it wouldnt need an advocate.
@@Mad_Axe_Man125 and why is there no demand? please offer a considered explanation.
@@josephgraif2588 You'd be surprised how many Millennials and Gen Zs have subscribed to my channel so far. It's rather encouraging that there's still those in the younger age bracket that loves the organ.
josephgraif, quote: «virgil fox did this over 50 years ago…» No, he didn’t. In this fugue, sometimes Cameron play the soprano, alto and tenor part on three different manuals! And Cameron’s virtuoso pedal is lightyears abowe Fox’s.
which fugue is this? In B minor? Not the one from well-tempered klavier, so which one is this? Any help appreciated.
It’s BWV 544
@@Engineer9736 thanks
I like him a genius, without partituur hi can it and is also another fachionista I'm there fan of it's also a magic organ
virgil fox did this over 50 years ago...
That was amazing.
Ouch @11:12
Wow
よーし！ 良かったぞ、良かったぞ。多くのエクスプレションもある。
I've never seen an organist play with a hand spanning 2 different manuals. Of course, my Mom played an organ with only 2 manuals. This was very expressive and harmonically pleasant.
Cross-manualing is a pretty standard playing technique.
Yep, there's one video of Wanamakers where you see Peter Richard Conte playing a big Wagner transcription, with his hands at one point on manuals 2 and 5, thumbing down to 1 and 4 AND fingering up to 3 and 6...
Libera interpretazione del preludio e fuga in Si m.
YES, CAMERON, YOU ARE CERTAINLY BRILLIANT, BUT, THE B MINOR FUGUE IS ONE OF BACHS GREAT WORKS AND YOUR VOICING WITH VARIOUS UGLY STOPS ETC. HAS DONE ALL BUT TO RUIN THIS PIECE WHICH OTHERWISE I LOVE. HERE I DIDN´T I JUST WONDER WHY TO DO SOMETHING SO BIZARRE WHEN YOU WELL KNOW BETTER THAN. THIS YOU ARE PLLAYING BACH AND NOT CAMERON. MAKES ME SAD TO SEE SUCH TALENT SPOILED IN THIS WAY.
what has this improvisation to do in that fugue? If it was a memory black out, very well done, if not, its just insanely obsolete
*Top 10 anime consoles*
Cameron Carpenter is to music what Ann Coulter is to journalism.
That's either the best of compliments or the worst of insults.
Papa bless
bhaha nice shoes
You can count the living artists on one or two hands who need at least three cameramen.
I always like listening to him talk about music. Just so knowledgeable:)
top 10 in the world, gotta be
Absolutely outstanding. Great stuf Cameron :-D
Is there anyone who would say this is his/her favourite version of this piece?
Willi Hansen That hair got me
Same here. Fuck that hair man
This sounds like a song from a DOS game
@Karol Mizewa it's playing through a surround sound stereo. Maybe these organs ain't my thing
Nee, danke.
Ah yes, Carpenter Carpenter, my favorite 21st century organist
@fuckoff hater
He has become my favorite organist on RUclips, The first time I heard him perform was Bach's Toccata and Fugue in D Minor, one of the standard works for accomplished organists. I had never heard it played the way he performed it, and I have heard it at least 50 times, not including the numerous times I myself performed it. I found myself giving him a "dislike", something I rarely ever do. Ten minutes later I changed it to a "Like", and have never looked back. Mr. Carpenter is a tremendous artist and his virtuosity at the organ cannot be questioned, even by those purists who think that a performer should mechanically play the notes on the sheet music. I am never disappointed in his artistry and am somewhat disappointed that there are those like Thirianna who cannot appreciate the talent of this man. Oh well, her loss.
Can’t hear it
Don't even wanna know how much that thing weighs
Per anum ad glorium 👎