Cameron Carpenter "The Great Fugue in G Minor" Live on Q2 Music in The Greene Space
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- Cameron Carpenter performs J. S. Bach's "The Great Fugue in G Minor" live on Q2 Music in The Greene Space.
4/20/2012
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The virtuosic composer-organist Cameron Carpenter joins host Terrance McKnight for a kaleidoscopic tour through the beautiful and diverse repertoire for organ, from legendary works by Johann Sebastian Bach to adaptations of Charles Ives and Percy Grainger to Carpenter's original compositions and arrangements of songs by George Gershwin and Leonard Cohen.
In his exclusive New York recital this season, Carpenter provides a high-octane embarrassment of riches, all performed on a new cutting-edge digital organ by a commanding musician dubbed a "force of nature" by Alex Ross of The New Yorker and an "ambitious radical who plays with unrelenting scope, vigor and imagination" by The Advocate.
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If only Cameron Carpenter could play more Bach like this.
I know it's not 'fashionable' to play beautiful music well but this is what Carpenter should be doing more of.
+jagara1 Hi Dear; I can't wait until he starts composing and performing some of his own master works. God... help us all. CVD
A perfect player does not necessarily make a good composer... I think these are 2 differents gifts.
For sheer virtuosity and dazzling joie de vivre, this man is the greatest organ player in the world at the moment. You may or may not like what he does, but there is no-one, NO-ONE who can jump around the complexities of the organ like him! NO-ONE!
Alexander Brown except everyone who does.
The greatest? hahahaha
maestro Ton Koopman is the best.
He's from Outer Space, wired differently than us.
Cameron is never less than captivating in terms of his choices and mastery of the instrument. Like it or not, you can’t say it’s ever boring.
There were people who thought Art Tatum was boring. "Too many notes" they said.
The same was said of Mozart after one of his operas, which he refuted, rightly so.
Those ornaments/trills are insane. He does it so perfect even in this dry environment with little to no acoustic at all.
This is wonderful. I particularly appreciate the registration, phrasing and interpretation. For me, this performance is iconic.
I can hear the brilliant sparkle of the weaving parts, clearly. I never could hear this structure until I was obliged to play it. Then I heard it, and I hear the sparkle, like a diamond in this performance.
+Norman Peters Dear Norm; Human beings shall stand in awe that a human being, a genius (Bach) actually composed such a work. Which is a lot like saying, "Don't cast your pearls before swine." But he did.
The organ Cameron is playing in not only second rate but the whole performance was recorded poorly... and yet, the truth stands out like a full moon on a winter's night in December. Cameron is our child, our student and our teacher. Personally, I can't wait to hear his compositions played upon Earth. After all he is... our child... our student and our teacher. May he live... to love... a very, very long time. Thank you dear Cameron for being ours!!!! CVD
This guy's a genius! Not a note of music in front of him either. I can't even play the first few bars of this prelude and fugue, so he's got my vote any day! I bet Bach would be chuckling in his grave listening to his interpretation. Way to go Cameron!
J.S. Bach has been waiting more than 250 years for this guy!
Bach himself was a famous virtuoso at his organ as Carpenter is!
If you people want to hear every piece played exactly the same way every time, just run off and listen to what you prefer. I like hearing how different performers play it. I loved the extra ornamentation he threw in, making this a lively dance movement rather than a stodgy chorale (which I also like).
Agree! Agree or disagree w the interpretation, it's what makes bach fun and interesting to right brained musicians
Carpenter: brilliant technical virtuosity. But this registration sounds like Bach trapped in a Nintendo video game.
It's, because Cameron likes dry acoustics, or better no acoustic. But in the real world, you can't install a real organ of the Size of that electronic thing in a small closet. With zero acoustic, an organ sounds not very well. I mean the organ and a matching room is a undividable thing.
I think he chose these for their fast attack
Yeah, Cameron doesn't consider really himself to be one who is obedient to the traditions of organ playing, as you probably gathered...
@@GiovanniTancrediChan compare: th-cam.com/video/7qHWdlkgosQ/w-d-xo.html
Did anyone not notice this is not in a hall but a small studio? The acoustics are completely different.
A breath of fresh air in this interpretation and lightness of playing.
Se J.S.Bach potesse ascoltare questo brano cosi suonato e interpretato ritornerebbe sconvolto nella sua tomba! Si coglie un movente diverso da come il brano fu pensato e scritto! Un brano che è pietra miliare della letteratura organistica suonato con animo diverso e se mi è consentito cosi suonato più in un circo che in una cattedrale !!
Infatti è una clamorosa americanata. Ma c'è più di qualcuno a cui piace.
A me personalmente no.
I admire this master; praying for his success and peace.
ABSOLUTELY LOVEEE!!! WAY TO GO!!
BRAVO Cameron Carpenter, a native PA young man with so much talent.
Keep up the great work
PA is proud of You
marvellous !!! this is wonderful musicality. Bravo dear Sir. Bach, no less ! Wow !!!!!
Flawless musicianship and interpretation--beyond superb!
Amazing ... thanks for upload!
Wow, such an incredible expression of what the pipe organ is. I'm sure Bach himself would stand and applaud this performance. Bravo!
Thanks for Uploading!!!!
Superb --- again. (Or still.) Thank You!
Absolutely beautiful.
Thank you so much for this stunning recording!
The way you played it with all the carefully added extra ornamentation makes this so refreshing.
THIS ''CAMERON CARPENTER BOY'' IS REALLY SOMETING ELSE.. WOW!!!! BRAVO!!!!!!
I love this guy wish I had his memory to play Bach so well. I also own 2 Rogers Organs 1 Classical and 1 Theater Organs I like them both.
Hope He comes to Arkansas soon. thanks Cameron.
He's playing this all from memory.
Lovely musical performance !
I have not seen so much hate in a comment box, even with this kind of content, which normally has a very calm and relaxed viewers. I can't believe that such "magnificent" musicians have the nerve to criticize a style only because they don't like it. I'm no musician, but I consider myself an artist, and this guy have art in him. Art varies in all of us, and all of us has his unique style. Denying it only denote prejudices. What a pitty...
If you do not like the way C.C. play then you do not have to listen. I am miles away from his standard and I tend to play as all you purists would like, but I admire his ability and his guts in playing in his own style. Keep up the good work C.C.
And I like the electronic organ. Incidentally - how many of you heard Bach play and are justified in criticising someone far better than you?
I enjoyed ths a lot. He gives a young feel to it.
why are people disliking this? he's unreal
People who dislike the video are just experimented musician or experimented music lovers... they know that performance never did quality ! I didn't know this guy until today, and what he does isn't good... It's modern, very modern, but you can't play Bach like that. You can play arrangements of Bach music, but you have to mention it, not like him... =/
when you learn to write English properly then maybe you can criticize this master organ player...
***** I'm french, that's why i do some mistakes when i speak english. So please inquire you about who you want to insult ! But i don't care about my english because you understood what i wanted to say !
And last point : he is a modern artist, not a master ! Michel Chapuis, Marie-Claire Alain, Daniel Roth or Olivier Latry are organ masters, and i can list others ; but Cameron Carpenter is not.
I respect his work, but I respect even more Bach and his music that none has the right to distort.
actually, I didn't understand your last response because it made no sense whatsoever. as for this comment... "he is a modern artist, not a master!" you do realize it is possible to be both those things, don't you? the word modern isn't bad just because you say so...
*****
The issue, though, is that we don't really know exactly how Bach performed his work, do we? Which hands went where, how it was set-up? In my opinion, Bach would be very unhappy if performers several hundred years later tried only to do what they believe he would do, and not make music, including old music, flow in slightly different ways.
By any standards this is a remarkable and enjoyable take on the old warhorse: it is tricky enough without all the added clever stuff! Mercifully the thought police are unlikely to worry this man. Great stuff
I’ve never seen an organist play one manual and stretch their thumbs towards the manual below it. That’s so amazing!! 😱😍
CC is absolutely Amazing
My only problem is that sometimes the trills that he adds make the piece sound......ticklish. That's not the feeling I was going for when I wrote it :D
But I love how articulate his playing is.
Name checks out.
Bach ¿Are you high?
Go home, Bach, you're dead.
@@oliviu-dorianconstantinesc288 Bach is alive as long as we have the capacity to play music. The God given talent of J.S. Bach shall live for ever.
😂
This guy has a Brain that works faster than any computer- GENIUS!
Awesome...Cameron Carpenter ....Bach's son.
This should be called "Pimp my Bach"! You either love his interpretation or you hate it. I think it's wonderful and refreshingly different but I still prefer something more traditional. This was purely done for showmanship
Damn good! :)
Great Cameron
Purists stay away... Me? I absolutely LOVE IT!!!!
God I love it! So unorthodox.
Ya gotta love any musician that makes people think...and talk. Interesting registrations and interpretations to say the least. I don't know too much about him but he would make a great ambassador of the organ to young people.
The truth is: he is a damn good organist! His interpretation is his cup of tea, not yours! The way how he plays it is the way how he feels it, why not? If he likes it like this, he should play it like this! If you don’t like this, try to learn it yourself, so you can play it the way you like. I learned it amd it was really difficult so why should I learn it if I can not decide how to play it?
Cameron is my idol. Very talent organist. Cool rockin organrebel ...
(I have such MIXED emotions with this young man...) BUT I"m STILL a HUGE FAN... NO matter what I may say!
Congratulations! The organ sounds a computer, and de organist performes beautifully like a IA!
I think this is new way to play organ and it sound very good.
by far my favorite version!go cameron!
nunca se conoció en toda la historia un organista tan virtuoso como él.
Pude escuchar al joven Gert van Hoef y ya me dirá!
Gert van Hoef toca bien, pero Cameron es como Paganini, las cosas que hace con el órgano no las hace nadie.
Remarkable!
Excellent}}}}}}}}}}}
Het orgel klinkt nogal ielig, voor de rest is het uiteraard geniaal wat hier gebeurt !
Astounding
I wish I could play the organ. I think it is my favorite instrument.
Jesse Lawson It's never too late to start
Cameron carpenter is the most and best organ player in the world. I like it when he plays Bach.
+Jesse Lawson Bach would jump into his grave if he watches what CC do to his music
As Virgil fox once said in his Wannamaker organ at the great mall interview on Fox TV , playing the organ takes many hands, feet, & many brains. Having played organ, I believe it. It is an incredible king of instrument that requires a king to play it right. Sadly, I don't........but I tried, lol !
Whoops. Virgil does not own the 15 story wannamaker organ withe the 44.000 pipes. I meant to say. Meant to say in the Wann.....
Wspaniałe!!!! 😊😊😊😊
Brilliant! I think Bach would have loved this performance! :-)
👍👍👍👍👍🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏merci
Works for me! :)
Ridicolous! A very fast "sveltina musicale"... Also Bach would say "Bleahhh!!!"
He would say "leave my music alone"!!!!!
speechless...
not sure about the gems on the shoes but Christ who the hell is that guy,?,
man has he mastered that instument,,,,unbelievable technique
This is the first comment section I've seen people hate this guy for a genuine reason, not because someone watched the h3h3 vid.
This trips along. A depth of interpritation of this Bach piece. Possibly a tad fast, but I thibk it adds to the interpritation.
Papa bless. h3h3 brought me here. Tbh. This is actually pretty rad. Kudos to you Carpenter. Best of luck. I still cringe at the promo vid though. But still, can't deny the fact you have talent.
Ornementation and phrasing are A+, and perfectly in style. Superior performance. I don't always agree with what he does generally, but this time he nailed it.
I am a fun of this organist. Genius
In my opinion, fantastic.
This is really well done!
He knows which buttons to push.
the greatest
virgil was the greatest.
Superbe et époustouflant !!! D.BABEL
To say anything 'bad' about such an amazing performance is the sign of a small brain. Small brains need a 'type-writer' style organist to 'enjoy' Bach. Most people are too stupid to comprehend a Fugue, never mind a Bach fugue played with this sort of speed and ingenuity. Never mind that he plays all Bach by memory. I mean, come on. That alone is amazing.
The imperfections can easily be laid to rest as soon as anyone else does it better.
MAGLIFIC
Talk about 'relentless'!
An entertaining performance.
Puts me in mind of Walter Carlos - Switched on Bach. Anyone else remember epic recording? This is a bit more interesting for other reasons.
I believe you meant _Wendy_ Carlos...
*wendy Carlos
It seems a bit ridiculous to first praise her and then not even show that basic level of respect...
Hallucinant!
What an incredible performance! I agree with the comments regarding the instrument and it's better to play on an organ equal to that of its day. CAMERON is a virtuoso wizard, and I bet he's glad he practiced his scales and arpeggios! Wonderful.
Quit whining that he doesn't play it in the style you like if there's already plenty of recordings in that style. I, for one, think this is a very clear interpretation, where you can hear all the notes just as they're written, which is the first prerequisite when it comes to complex polyphonic baroque music like this. If, on top of that, a performer manages to make it more musically interesting without sacrificing that clarity, that's great, and there's no need for everybody to try to do that in the exact same way.
I totally agree!
Damn this is intense
He can do whatever the hell he wants when he can play like that.
Would any new comer to this truly great music be turned ON by this performance? Sure, he's young and he SHOULD push the boundaries. But where does he think this is going with this?
He is truly genius
Super :)
Non si può commentare, è roba da baraccone!
What’s sad. I can almost follow him.🎶🎶
As usual....he wakes up Bach...! Awesome
I enjoyed hearing this piece played so quickly. There are many different ways of playing it, and each brings out a different facet. It does go on and on when played at the usual tempo. Bravo, Cameron.
Une articulation absolument remarquable, je suis "soufflé" ce que j'appelle un jeu aéré, Bravo ! D.BABEL
Rien à retenir , trop rapide pas d'âme ...c'est une honte!
An excellent example of why organs are installed in (and voice for) large spaces where the room itself is the "sounding board" of the instrument. An unusually "dry" recording of an organ (whether pipe or electric). Like listening to a trumpet in a phone booth.
I'd rather hear him play this on... the real thing... TALENTED... NO question...!!!
YES
OMG!! Some folk like the sound of their own voices, in print as it were! As was Liberace to the piano, so is Nigel Kennedy to the violin and Cameron Carpenter to the organ. Let's celebrate and appreciate the different interpretations and flamboyant presentations rather than nit pick over unimportant trivia. Anything I might not particularly like about Cam's playing here doesn't matter a sausage because he has more music in his dexter pinkie than I have in my whole body, so, good on him!
Absolutely outstanding!
SPLENDIDO !!!!!!
Those that can, do. Those that can't criticize on Facebook..... The guy can play and he seems to bring joy to a lot of people's ears. Perfect? Maybe not. Traditional? Nope. But he and other non traditionalists keep this instrument from being a museum piece enjoyed by just a select few.
Utter BS. Organ performances are everywhere. You just didn't know about them. Go to some. They are not for the "select few."
just the fact that he has memorized that song.
I play the piano and the organ, memorizing songs takes almost no effort. If I can play it, I remember it. I'm sure it's the same for him
Benjamin W. For most people it would take great effort.
Benjamin W. true memorization of a polyphonic piece requires being able to sing each voice beginning to end... it's not necessary to play it from memory obviously, but if you put in this extra work it really pays off
Benjamin W. Memorizing a piece of music is difficult if not impossible for the majority of organists. To memorize that particular piece is no easy matter.
Offshoreorganbuilder I know quite a few people like myself to whom memorizing a piece comes hand in hand with being able to play a piece. I guess we are just lucky to have good muscle memory. Often times I'll make a mistake in the middle of a long piece, have to stop, and have no idea where I just was or where to start from if I don't have the music in front of me.
He is to classical music what jazz is to popular music!