I doubt Chopin would have been "ill" over this. He'd probably have thought it was the coolest thing he'd ever seen and wanted to write more stuff for it. People who WRITE this sort of music are a bit more freer in the mind than the people who try to reproduce it note for note. Besides, the piano rep has more than its share of pieces developed from the rep of other instruments. Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini anyone? :-) And nearly none of the past greats used anything like a modern piano.
@ragtime1000 he's playing them (the last 4 chords) with his feet. if you watch his feet they are turned sideways. each foot can play 2 notes if they are close enough. one with the toe and one with the heel
@ragtime1000 actually if you can find the other trinity performance of Cameron playing this piece live in concert. you can better see his feet playing the last 4 chords. it should be in my favorites
Wow! Look at all of those comments that are negative. In all of my years of composing and in the music business I have seen and heard everthing from one side of the world to the other. Music is dynamic, she breathes and gives birth to creativity and to virtuosos! I makes no diffrence to who he is compared to in the past and present he is not to be compared but to be added to ranks of virtuosos. Take it for what his music making is. Compare him not to anyone else, he is what he is, a master!
I'd be the first to admit I don't care for Carpenter's style (dress and playing), it's shamelessly flashy and lacking depth... but one cannot help but respect him for his stupendous technique and the way he brings music to life. However, I'd dare to suggest that Nathan Laube is a better all-rounder... and, for virtuosity combined with profundity, the four recordings of Michel Chapuis at St Ouen, Rouen that are on YouTube take some beating.
@wljmrbill - yeah, but Bish is a rubbish player, poor technique, playing simplified versions of the organ 'pops' and often leaving out big sections because they're too difficult... Carpenter is in a different league.
Check out Cameron playing the Bach 540. It's the best version of the 540 that I've ever heard in my life. It's on his last album "Cameron Live!" played on a real pipe organ from Saint Mary's in NY.
@achim56nrw Don't you like Liberace? He's always seemed to me an extension of the ability and flamboyance of Liszt but the with popularity of a popular musician (tautology?), of course at the cost of some of the 'pureness' of his interpretations, and his liking of jazz etc, but he produced some good, interesting and technically demanding interpretations.
@TomatoPro Sorry, you seem to have misunderstood, I didn't mean superior ability to Liszt, but a temporal extension, I admit I was somewhat vague. Of course Liberace was nowhere as good a pianist as Liszt, or Alkan, or Cziffra or Hamelin. Apologies.
I was in a Liberace concert in Palm Beach/Florida in 1985. He has been playing well, but it was more show than art. His eccentric appearance with long fur I found ridiculous. Liberace was not a classical pianist, but an entertainer. That's what I meant when I wrote that Carpenter should not enter into Liberace's footsteps.
27 people have no taste...the purpose of people putting these videos out here on youtube is not for people to criticize how the organist looks, but for the great beauty of the music that we want to hear...If you really don't like looking at the organist, turn off your monitor...
@AllenJBlodgettJrmota Sorry Allen, but i don't care for this performance, and my opinion is not based on Cameron's outfit. I'll certainly give him credit for being extremely talented. This, however just seems to be a display of technical ability, not musicianship or artistry. He is cast in the mold of Virgil Fox, who was also extremely talented but chose to be superficial and flashy instead of an artist.
@chen0466 Virgil Fox not an artist??? Wow, you must have some pretty high standards there, chen0466. I admit Mr. Fox was quite the showman (saw him SEVERAL times live, including at the Wannamaker AND Longwood Gardens). But to say he was not an artist is an insult to his legacy and shows you know very little about organ masters. Even E.Power Biggs shows off once in awhile. I suppose you don't think he is and artist either?
@technocrash09 High standards spawn excellence; you've interpreted mine as snootiness. To me, the rubric for organ performance is registration, technical, and artistic ability. Nobody matched Fox's 'Tu Es Petra' (Mulet), but his 'Westminster Carillon' (Vierne) on the same Wanamaker album? Terrible! He often sacrificed artistry and registration to show off his technical ability-I believe for selfish reasons. Hence, he was less an artist in my view. Bigss was more of an artist.
@chen0466 To each their own, I suppose. We'll have to agree to disagree. To watch Fox on the Longwood organ was to watch, not just an artist, but a master. And to me (with limited ability on a keyboard) mastery equals artistry. There are those who would argue that a Van Gogh = excellence, while others would say he ignored the typical "rubrics" for painters (expression, interpretation, et al) and just painted self-righteous crap. *just sayin*
@technocrash09 You are certainly entitled to your preferences. I don't deny Fox was masterful - again his Tu Es Petra at Wanamaker's seems unbeatable. But, humor me. Compare his recording of the Westminster Carillon at Wanamaker's vs. Ben Van Oosten at St. Ouen, Rouen. Try it. Perhaps you'll see where I'm coming from, not that you have to agree with it.
Amazing, incredible! Many organists can be jealous for his great playing. It doesn't matter how he is dressed, it matters what and how he does. How long takes to play like that? The whole life! If Bach or Reger would know him, there would be works that are not playable for everybody. Thanks for sharing.
@correpetitor I think Cameron Charpenter is not a good organist, he is just a good transcriptor ( translator we say in english? ) and he has so much technical
This interpretation is amazing, but when he plays a organ sheet, it is not really good, listen to the toccata and fugue in d minor...
I have been playing organ on and off for 20 years and I am amazed at Mr. Carpenters talent. Hes got more talent in his left foot than I have in my entire body!
Why criticize his choice of clothing? He chooses to wear these bodysuits to enable him to do the acrobatic moves necessary to play like he does. That being said, something in a solid flat black or white would look really blah. Cameron is a showman, pure and simple. Only he is one with an immense amount of talent. When he dresses like Liberace, THEN I will say he has gone too far.
Yes, he creates all his glitzy outfits, and even glues expensive Swarovski crystals (all by hand), himself. He's even designed a portable Organ so that he can tour with it, instead of having to use the organs in whatever churches or venues he happens
to be performing in. It's going to be 'A Glitzy Affair', to be sure! Cameron is a STAR!
I just discovered Cameron while watching CBS News - Sunday Morning.
WHAT A GEM!
Amazing, beautiful, handsome, talented, inspirational, creative as all get out, original, bright light, intelligent, sparkling, brave, sexy, intriguing, and SO MUCH MORE! It's a beautiful day when I stumble onto a new discovery that touches & ignites so many of my senses!
So glad 23 people took a break from pulling the wings off butterflies to register their dislike...hey, look, some little kids, quick go give them the real deal about Santa Claus. Cameron RULES!
Who could be cooler than Carpenter? A black Belt in keyboard (and pedalboard) technique, unafraid to express himself and his sexuality (Unlike the closet-bound Virgil Fox) and Cameron plays the Theater Organ.
We NEED more performers like this talented young man. MUSIC needs more people like him.
Every establishment instrument some day finds a maestro who turns its cliche completely upside down.
I am still waiting that a concert harp playing bodybuilder with naked chest and golden pants will thrill the audience with unheard artistic performances... ;-)
This guy is truly AMAZING!!! anyone that does not think so is such a purist that they will only follow what is the paper...move on!...I deal with them infrequently and get them out of my life asap...why negative comments about shoes, dress etc...with talent like this you can do what you want with whom and where you want to...if Ella and Frank followed what was on the paper we would have never known who they were!!! Negative comments are based on jealousy about talent, age and looks!
Okay, admittedly this would probably make Chopin feel rather ill, but then I think most of us organists can secretly admit to ourselves that if we had Carpenter's pedal technique we'd quite happily murder the entire piano repertoire in order to show it off, and who could blame us...
@Brideshead09 No I don't think the entire piano repertoire would fall to his amazing foot work. But most of it. You can't get as much emotion from an organ as you could a piano.
After coming across this by accident and reading most of the comments, it's fair to say that no matter how good the performance, there will always be someone saying such and such does it better.
My personal take is that he seems to be an incredible player - though I'm a guitarist with no KB skills - doing a good job on the piece. I don't care for his outfit and - thanks to the"pwnerofnoobs" I learned that you can actually buy organ shoes!!
@SteveGad I'll tell you someone who does it better than this. Cameron out-did this by a fair margin at a live performance at the Bridgewater Hall, Manchester - he played Chopin's C# minor etude from the Op. 10...utterly jaw dropping!!!
The pedals were always my favorite part of the organ...gives it this kick-ass sound no other instrument has. So it's no wonder why I love this video. I don't really care about the critics...they have a right to their opinion, but that's all it is. Meanwhile, every time I hear this, I get goosebumps. All those critics ever give anyone is heartburn.
That´s wrong ... ofcourse he is an Professional Organist... he is playing and givin conzerts nearly everywhere ... he has been in Germany, France, Netherlands, Spain, England, USA ... and much more !! HE IS professional ;)
If someone does not like Carpenter and his style then why watch the videos? Searching out videos to criticise seems fruitless to me. There are certain people I do not like and I certainly would not watch their videos. Youtube have a HUGE selection to please all tastes.
@silverstartrucker Couldn't agree more. There are few things as irritating as the over-judgmental comments left on every brilliant musical video on this site.
@silverstartrucker - I have seen comments where people criticise Cameron's style of dress and the fact that he's gay. What the hell has that got to do with it. One of the worst is organman52. If ever there were a bigot it's him...
Bach would win. Bach even improvised fugues on a subject that Frederick the Great designed to be difficult to write in a fugue, all the way up until 6 voices were requested. Cameron doesn't come close to that.
True true, but Johnny Bach was FAR too fat to play pedal passages like Cameron does. Fireplug-like Bach had thunder thighs of stupendous proportions, so the fancy leg crossings Cameron executes were not really possible with Big Bad J. Seb..
Besides, Bach hated sequins - he was more into brocaded silk waistcoats and skintight white stockings. With or without white makeup, lipstick, a wig and a fake beauty mark.
Awww... sheesh. Was it the Big John Bach comment? Or that Jonny HATED HATED HATED sequins? Perhaps he just loathed them. :) In any case Cameron is the King of the Pedals with the added bonus that he sort of talks like Sheldon on the Big Bang Theory! I would love to see a vid of Cameron telling a joke :)
On a tracker organ? No way my man. No possible way you can play that fast on a tracker pedal board. The mechanical works could never return in time for his passage work, and besides, it would take an incredible amount of physical strength to open those remote bass pipes at that tempo. Bach was very good, but by the time he composed the Musical Offering to which you eluded, he was a very old man and incapable of performing complex pedal work. See Spitta, LIfe of Bach, V II
Just imagine the skill and coordination anyone would need to pull off something like this. That's what's most astounding of all. I bet only a very few people could do this. Congratulations Cameron.
Asgoodasgod, I agree completely! I was thinking something similar, like "if you can't do it then STFU" All these armchair critics who can't criticise his musicianship, so they make fun of his outfit and his sexuality. Proof positive how bankrupt their arguments are.
If you ever needed some definition on what is grotesque, there you have it! A genuine master-piece! Imressive is how much time M. Carpenter must have spent on regulating his nervous system so completely, and perfectly, in order to achieve that accoustical tutti frutti. Some institution should grant him an award, don't you think?
I bought this CD/DVD in NYC after Cameron's recital at the Middle Collegiate Church (where he is organist) to promote the release of ths album. He was very kind and spent time talking to me and signed the new album. Truly great talent...his approach to the organ is quite different then most.
Regardless of where Chopin literature is played, if it exposes a new audience to the composer, and possibly a new audience to the organ, then a great feat has been accomplished here. Organ and classic music circles have been dwindling for years...Cameron has opted for a new approach, and reached out to audiences beyond the 'concert set'...for this, I applaud him.
I am speechless! This is at once amazing, tremendous and at the same time a terrible thing to do to Chopin. Still, he must be able to romp through the organ repertoire.
Evening ladies, and I thought trumpet players could get a bit tetchy.... Fabulous to hear and see such virtuosity. At the end of the day, it is always the sound that matters, just looked this up 'cos I heard him on The Culture Show at the Royal Albert Hall - he played it slower, but 'cos of the sound of that mighty beast, it was even more impressive to my humble, brass addled ears.
I personally think the pieces Chopin wrote for piano should never be played on the organ... it just doesn't sound right... you have to admit though Cameron's skill is superb.
I totally agree with you, these pieces should not be played on the organ. What Cameron has done here is used them as the prime specimen for his 'show business', whilst its undeniably true he has a strong pedal point, but I don't appreciate the impression this brings on the public that "faster is better".
Its obvious he can play it perfectly on the organ but in no way does it mean its going to sound nearly as good as the original.
I'm sorry, but I thought we were commenting on this guy's talents at the console, not your new President. You need to ignore what the guy is wearing and appreciate sheer talent. Long may you continue Cameron. Regards from the UK.
TERRIFYING FOOTSTEPS..... HIIIIHIIIIII
new1cyclone 1 week ago
I doubt Chopin would have been "ill" over this. He'd probably have thought it was the coolest thing he'd ever seen and wanted to write more stuff for it. People who WRITE this sort of music are a bit more freer in the mind than the people who try to reproduce it note for note. Besides, the piano rep has more than its share of pieces developed from the rep of other instruments. Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini anyone? :-) And nearly none of the past greats used anything like a modern piano.
janiscortese 1 month ago
Cameron, How are you able to play the last 4 cords of the Revolutionary with both hands resting on the bench?
ragtime1000 2 months ago
@ragtime1000 he's playing them (the last 4 chords) with his feet. if you watch his feet they are turned sideways. each foot can play 2 notes if they are close enough. one with the toe and one with the heel
BigOrganPipes 3 weeks ago
@ragtime1000 actually if you can find the other trinity performance of Cameron playing this piece live in concert. you can better see his feet playing the last 4 chords. it should be in my favorites
BigOrganPipes 3 weeks ago
A: Cameron Carpenter.
Q: What do get when you cross figure-skating with the pipe organ?
FlametopFred 3 months ago
How could ANYONE thumb this down? Beautiful.
scizotts 3 months ago
man what a work out!!
westsfynest 3 months ago
Wow! Look at all of those comments that are negative. In all of my years of composing and in the music business I have seen and heard everthing from one side of the world to the other. Music is dynamic, she breathes and gives birth to creativity and to virtuosos! I makes no diffrence to who he is compared to in the past and present he is not to be compared but to be added to ranks of virtuosos. Take it for what his music making is. Compare him not to anyone else, he is what he is, a master!
selaromyar 4 months ago
Maestro!
xxxElegatorxxx 5 months ago
Well......Kind of sloppy....but...COOL!
How could I complain....I'm the sloppiest player in the universe!!!
And I don't care!
Thumbs up!
IstvanHernek 5 months ago
I'd be the first to admit I don't care for Carpenter's style (dress and playing), it's shamelessly flashy and lacking depth... but one cannot help but respect him for his stupendous technique and the way he brings music to life. However, I'd dare to suggest that Nathan Laube is a better all-rounder... and, for virtuosity combined with profundity, the four recordings of Michel Chapuis at St Ouen, Rouen that are on YouTube take some beating.
EccentricRichard 6 months ago
After playing many mnay years..I only wish I could approach this technique...and you all thopught my friend Miss Bish plays fast.
wljmrbill 6 months ago
@wljmrbill - yeah, but Bish is a rubbish player, poor technique, playing simplified versions of the organ 'pops' and often leaving out big sections because they're too difficult... Carpenter is in a different league.
EccentricRichard 6 months ago
"David Bowie the Dumuzid has appeared.
It's the killer!
Do not die."
sompret 6 months ago
NO COMMENT :-)))))))))))
BUDNIKOV06 7 months ago
I challenge this man to a dual in DDR.
Aang1 7 months ago
Wow, I didn't expect a single part of that! Those runs are hard enough with the left hand, let alone the feet. Mad props.
Kitsua 7 months ago
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Check out Cameron playing the Bach 540. It's the best version of the 540 that I've ever heard in my life. It's on his last album "Cameron Live!" played on a real pipe organ from Saint Mary's in NY.
VD54K 7 months ago
I LOVE THIS GUY!!!! OMGGG!
VONHIMMELBACH 8 months ago
What an excellent and masterly player. He will follow in the footsteps of Widor and Messiaen. But please: Do not follow the footsteps of Liberace ;-)
achim56nrw 8 months ago 11
@achim56nrw... I'm not sure this is "sound" advice. Liberace made a lot more money and was far more famous.
buzzbaybear 4 months ago
@buzzbaybear
Many years ago I was in Palm Beach Florida in a concert with Liberace. He was reach but not a very good pianist.
achim56nrw 4 months ago
@achim56nrw Don't you like Liberace? He's always seemed to me an extension of the ability and flamboyance of Liszt but the with popularity of a popular musician (tautology?), of course at the cost of some of the 'pureness' of his interpretations, and his liking of jazz etc, but he produced some good, interesting and technically demanding interpretations.
VayDooble 3 months ago
@VayDooble Liberace was a good pianist....in what way do you think he had greater pianistic ability than Liszt?
TomatoPro 3 months ago
@TomatoPro Sorry, you seem to have misunderstood, I didn't mean superior ability to Liszt, but a temporal extension, I admit I was somewhat vague. Of course Liberace was nowhere as good a pianist as Liszt, or Alkan, or Cziffra or Hamelin. Apologies.
VayDooble 3 months ago
@achim56nrw Might I inquire what was so wrong with Liberace's footsteps?
wjw9075 1 month ago
@wjw9075
I was in a Liberace concert in Palm Beach/Florida in 1985. He has been playing well, but it was more show than art. His eccentric appearance with long fur I found ridiculous. Liberace was not a classical pianist, but an entertainer. That's what I meant when I wrote that Carpenter should not enter into Liberace's footsteps.
achim56nrw 1 month ago
@achim56nrw You are so right, I could not agree with you more! Thanks for clarifying!
wjw9075 1 month ago
27 people have no taste...the purpose of people putting these videos out here on youtube is not for people to criticize how the organist looks, but for the great beauty of the music that we want to hear...If you really don't like looking at the organist, turn off your monitor...
AllenJBlodgettJrmota 10 months ago
@AllenJBlodgettJrmota Sorry Allen, but i don't care for this performance, and my opinion is not based on Cameron's outfit. I'll certainly give him credit for being extremely talented. This, however just seems to be a display of technical ability, not musicianship or artistry. He is cast in the mold of Virgil Fox, who was also extremely talented but chose to be superficial and flashy instead of an artist.
chen0466 9 months ago
@chen0466 Virgil Fox not an artist??? Wow, you must have some pretty high standards there, chen0466. I admit Mr. Fox was quite the showman (saw him SEVERAL times live, including at the Wannamaker AND Longwood Gardens). But to say he was not an artist is an insult to his legacy and shows you know very little about organ masters. Even E.Power Biggs shows off once in awhile. I suppose you don't think he is and artist either?
peace
technocrash09 6 months ago
@technocrash09 High standards spawn excellence; you've interpreted mine as snootiness. To me, the rubric for organ performance is registration, technical, and artistic ability. Nobody matched Fox's 'Tu Es Petra' (Mulet), but his 'Westminster Carillon' (Vierne) on the same Wanamaker album? Terrible! He often sacrificed artistry and registration to show off his technical ability-I believe for selfish reasons. Hence, he was less an artist in my view. Bigss was more of an artist.
chen0466 5 months ago
@chen0466 To each their own, I suppose. We'll have to agree to disagree. To watch Fox on the Longwood organ was to watch, not just an artist, but a master. And to me (with limited ability on a keyboard) mastery equals artistry. There are those who would argue that a Van Gogh = excellence, while others would say he ignored the typical "rubrics" for painters (expression, interpretation, et al) and just painted self-righteous crap. *just sayin*
Play on, Cameron!!!
RIP Mr. Fox
peace
technocrash09 5 months ago
@technocrash09 You are certainly entitled to your preferences. I don't deny Fox was masterful - again his Tu Es Petra at Wanamaker's seems unbeatable. But, humor me. Compare his recording of the Westminster Carillon at Wanamaker's vs. Ben Van Oosten at St. Ouen, Rouen. Try it. Perhaps you'll see where I'm coming from, not that you have to agree with it.
chen0466 3 months ago
HE IS FANTASTIC! BUT WHAT'S WITH THE SHOES?
MrSalsavaje 10 months ago
Amazing, incredible! Many organists can be jealous for his great playing. It doesn't matter how he is dressed, it matters what and how he does. How long takes to play like that? The whole life! If Bach or Reger would know him, there would be works that are not playable for everybody. Thanks for sharing.
correpetitor 10 months ago
@correpetitor I think Cameron Charpenter is not a good organist, he is just a good transcriptor ( translator we say in english? ) and he has so much technical
This interpretation is amazing, but when he plays a organ sheet, it is not really good, listen to the toccata and fugue in d minor...
loorloop 9 months ago
Strepitoso !
5musico8 10 months ago
Very impressive! Great piece!
GeoffJacobs 10 months ago
Cameron lives near me. I see him walking around sometimes. Someday I have got to meet this genius!!
Roblex11 11 months ago
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Sweet Jesus! You are a god!
owenhsalome 11 months ago
Sweet Jesus! You are a god!
owenhsalome 11 months ago
I should have played the Organ!
RagtimeIrvin 1 year ago 3
Pity the ending doesn't show his shoes doing the chords. Another video does.
thinsmek 1 year ago
O H M Y G O D ! I see it, and I hear it, but I don't believe it! How can any one person have that much talent in their body?!?
Towncarguy52 1 year ago
holy shiz his feet
explodingpotato7 1 year ago
amazing! ;o
MsRedcatty 1 year ago
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Cameron "Spasser" Carpenter beskadiger nok én orgel.
rossdoektu 1 year ago
Cameron 'Spasser' Carpenter beskadiger nok én orgel.
rossdoektu 1 year ago
inspirational (both Cam and his musical style)
Televersity 1 year ago
I have been playing organ on and off for 20 years and I am amazed at Mr. Carpenters talent. Hes got more talent in his left foot than I have in my entire body!
compukenny 1 year ago
You gotta hand it to Cameron, he's putting organ back on the map.
OzzieJohnFerguson 1 year ago
The flashing clothing isn't necessary, but neither are body piercings, yet people do it anyways.
FANTASTIC PERFORMANCE!
mfortee 1 year ago
spectacular!!!
maulee2008 1 year ago
Wonderful performance. I can't say I like the "sparkle sparkle" of this guy's cloths, but it's good nevertheless.
Zylstra555 1 year ago
Why criticize his choice of clothing? He chooses to wear these bodysuits to enable him to do the acrobatic moves necessary to play like he does. That being said, something in a solid flat black or white would look really blah. Cameron is a showman, pure and simple. Only he is one with an immense amount of talent. When he dresses like Liberace, THEN I will say he has gone too far.
MrRicksStudio 1 year ago
"happy feet"
Guitarist2098 1 year ago
ohhhhhhh he should make foot fetish vids
Guitarist2098 1 year ago
@Guitarist2098 lol...this IS a foot fetish vid if your an organist !
Televersity 1 year ago
@Televersity lol :)!
Guitarist2098 1 year ago
LOL ELTHON JOHNNNNNNN
Hanchwood 1 year ago
Yes, he creates all his glitzy outfits, and even glues expensive Swarovski crystals (all by hand), himself. He's even designed a portable Organ so that he can tour with it, instead of having to use the organs in whatever churches or venues he happens
to be performing in. It's going to be 'A Glitzy Affair', to be sure! Cameron is a STAR!
MomChinea 1 year ago
I just discovered Cameron while watching CBS News - Sunday Morning.
WHAT A GEM!
Amazing, beautiful, handsome, talented, inspirational, creative as all get out, original, bright light, intelligent, sparkling, brave, sexy, intriguing, and SO MUCH MORE! It's a beautiful day when I stumble onto a new discovery that touches & ignites so many of my senses!
artchixx 1 year ago
So glad 23 people took a break from pulling the wings off butterflies to register their dislike...hey, look, some little kids, quick go give them the real deal about Santa Claus. Cameron RULES!
TheRecyclist 1 year ago
sparkly diamond man plays piano well
LickandNuke 1 year ago
Beautiful! I wonder if his shoes are special made for easy heel-toe pedaling?
MsMaestro00 1 year ago
Who could be cooler than Carpenter? A black Belt in keyboard (and pedalboard) technique, unafraid to express himself and his sexuality (Unlike the closet-bound Virgil Fox) and Cameron plays the Theater Organ.
We NEED more performers like this talented young man. MUSIC needs more people like him.
sina4 1 year ago 2
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What a great and bizarre virtuoso...!
Every establishment instrument some day finds a maestro who turns its cliche completely upside down.
I am still waiting that a concert harp playing bodybuilder with naked chest and golden pants will thrill the audience with unheard artistic performances... ;-)
AerialTheShamen 1 year ago
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AerialTheShamen 1 year ago
please dont compare BACH to this guy and his faggy shirt
thenamesfrancisco 1 year ago
This guy is truly AMAZING!!! anyone that does not think so is such a purist that they will only follow what is the paper...move on!...I deal with them infrequently and get them out of my life asap...why negative comments about shoes, dress etc...with talent like this you can do what you want with whom and where you want to...if Ella and Frank followed what was on the paper we would have never known who they were!!! Negative comments are based on jealousy about talent, age and looks!
TheMercguy 1 year ago
@TheMercguy I totally agree with you Merc! Cameron has an amazing talent and that's all that matters. If people don't like watching him, move on!
dennyboy2776 1 year ago
22 people aren't gay
burmppootbarpmeep 1 year ago
Okay, admittedly this would probably make Chopin feel rather ill, but then I think most of us organists can secretly admit to ourselves that if we had Carpenter's pedal technique we'd quite happily murder the entire piano repertoire in order to show it off, and who could blame us...
Brideshead09 1 year ago 18
@Brideshead09 No I don't think the entire piano repertoire would fall to his amazing foot work. But most of it. You can't get as much emotion from an organ as you could a piano.
RagtimeIrvin 5 months ago
@Brideshead09 when it comes to pedal work Carpenter has picked up where Virgil Fox left off
bubbajoe1925 4 months ago
I agree with silverstartrucker. Once must be VERY jealous to seek out such talent just to belittle it for their own satisfaction.
mwhall8282 1 year ago
He must have quite the abs.
ykaiilah 1 year ago
There's something about him that I don't quite like, but at the same time, he's SO GOOD that I can't stop watching!!
rileylendrum 1 year ago
@rileylendrum Come on, is it the shirt :) I think he just walked in from tap dancing.
ykaiilah 1 year ago
Can he use his TOES?
Sisiyingying 1 year ago
Amazing!
WalrusHN 1 year ago
hard enough to play with just hands lol. Hes donig with FEET!
ph4nt0mf1ng3rs 1 year ago
Beautiful ...beautiful ...organist Cameron. God bless you !!
adrianmusic2009 1 year ago
Bet he can do the Middelshulte's "Moto Perpetual for pedals" with no problems ...
DSM1G90 1 year ago
OH. MY. GEEZUS.
His shoes are..... FABULOUS!!!!
Where can I order those kind of organ shoes!?!?! lol
brettmusicfanatic 1 year ago
After coming across this by accident and reading most of the comments, it's fair to say that no matter how good the performance, there will always be someone saying such and such does it better.
My personal take is that he seems to be an incredible player - though I'm a guitarist with no KB skills - doing a good job on the piece. I don't care for his outfit and - thanks to the"pwnerofnoobs" I learned that you can actually buy organ shoes!!
So I learned something AND got entertained too!
SteveGad 1 year ago 2
@SteveGad I'll tell you someone who does it better than this. Cameron out-did this by a fair margin at a live performance at the Bridgewater Hall, Manchester - he played Chopin's C# minor etude from the Op. 10...utterly jaw dropping!!!
Lopear27 1 year ago
I wonder what he would do to Chopin's minute waltz if ever he dared to play it !
morchards1 1 year ago
@morchards1 he could probably do flight of the bumblebee with his butt cheeks... ;)
bckm54 1 year ago
@morchards1 it would smoke!
Lopear27 1 year ago
AMAZING!!!
TheLordRoman 1 year ago
i hate those white organ shoes...
thepwnnerofnoobs 1 year ago
The pedals were always my favorite part of the organ...gives it this kick-ass sound no other instrument has. So it's no wonder why I love this video. I don't really care about the critics...they have a right to their opinion, but that's all it is. Meanwhile, every time I hear this, I get goosebumps. All those critics ever give anyone is heartburn.
bckm54 1 year ago
Incredible! I would simply love to hear him play Trois Danses by Jehan Alain! He would be great at it!
VladtheEmailer 1 year ago
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tds301 1 year ago
What a DINAMISM! ..like always:)
kisskatus 1 year ago
pretty damn amazing.
thedotmatrixproject 1 year ago
unreal.
Azninvazn89 2 years ago
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gay fag is gay
Mhtsaras007 2 years ago
@Mhtsaras007 - He sho nuff do be, and what's the problem with that? Heterosexual organists are virtually non-existent, Mary. Get used to it.
MrRicksStudio 1 year ago
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that guy has no balls
otherwise they'd be bigger than grapefruits from all the rubbing...manhood FAIL
kostikas2002 2 years ago
WOW! Amazing! It's too bad the articulation in the feet is off. It should be like a string of pearls - connected, but still separated.
Sad, it could be incredible if it were done correctly.
tds301 2 years ago
@tds301 everywhere there's a know-it-all. here, you ssem to be one of them. I doubt you could do what he does...
bckm54 1 year ago
That´s wrong ... ofcourse he is an Professional Organist... he is playing and givin conzerts nearly everywhere ... he has been in Germany, France, Netherlands, Spain, England, USA ... and much more !! HE IS professional ;)
take09mehome 2 years ago
Impressive and mind-blowing yes, but so is a white guy in a glittery jumpsuit. But does either actually serve a legit purpose?
dw154515 2 years ago
@dw154515 same question to any other entertainers
hamzah22 2 years ago
@hamzah22 exactly.... "entertainer". NOT professional concert organist or musician.
dw154515 2 years ago
SIIIIIIIIIIIICK YO :D
DennisGorshteyn 2 years ago
Is this humour? Vainly virtuosic, this music suits the organ so much, than for a ballerina the gumboots:(((
valerio1961 2 years ago
Great work cam! Keep on going!
Ignore the haters. They're jealous and besides, soon they'll all be dead.
bobbymak880 2 years ago
wow...amazing feet....i can only play that with my hands....lol. Its kinda funny how the last 4 chords he uses only his feet.....lol
insanedrummerx27 2 years ago
If someone does not like Carpenter and his style then why watch the videos? Searching out videos to criticise seems fruitless to me. There are certain people I do not like and I certainly would not watch their videos. Youtube have a HUGE selection to please all tastes.
silverstartrucker 2 years ago 35
@silverstartrucker Couldn't agree more. There are few things as irritating as the over-judgmental comments left on every brilliant musical video on this site.
TMusic5 1 year ago
@silverstartrucker Their just jelious off his crazy skills
standtall468 10 months ago
@silverstartrucker - I have seen comments where people criticise Cameron's style of dress and the fact that he's gay. What the hell has that got to do with it. One of the worst is organman52. If ever there were a bigot it's him...
silverstartrucker 10 months ago
I had to do it for a project. You dont know the motives of some people. I do agree they dont need to comment though.
mrhockey1298 9 months ago
This guy would rock at DDR.
GoombaThingMan 2 years ago
CC is God!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
VD54K 2 years ago
And now: IT`s SHOWTIME! ........ haha
anonymusum 2 years ago
WOW This is unbelievable, its nearly impossible to play this on piano for me
on a side note Michael Jackson would have loved that shirt!
mymusicvideos1991 2 years ago
OMG...this is amazing! I'm currently struggling with good footwork and this is very inspiring!
ashleyohtori 2 years ago
AWESOME and BRILLIANT..*****STARS*****
Waynetoven 2 years ago
I'm going to see him in Buffalo in October , so excited
PicturesOfDavid 2 years ago 2
I would love to see an organ duel between Bach and this fellow.
tacetviola 2 years ago
Bach would win. Bach even improvised fugues on a subject that Frederick the Great designed to be difficult to write in a fugue, all the way up until 6 voices were requested. Cameron doesn't come close to that.
menschmaschine5 2 years ago
Exactly..
advisorC101 2 years ago
True true, but Johnny Bach was FAR too fat to play pedal passages like Cameron does. Fireplug-like Bach had thunder thighs of stupendous proportions, so the fancy leg crossings Cameron executes were not really possible with Big Bad J. Seb..
Besides, Bach hated sequins - he was more into brocaded silk waistcoats and skintight white stockings. With or without white makeup, lipstick, a wig and a fake beauty mark.
sina4 2 years ago 19
pedalboards were also different and much harder to play back then.
And whether or not one likes sequins does not dictate how well they play the organ.
menschmaschine5 2 years ago
@sina4 - Sorry, you are nit picking :-)
silverstartrucker 1 year ago
@silverstartrucker
Awww... sheesh. Was it the Big John Bach comment? Or that Jonny HATED HATED HATED sequins? Perhaps he just loathed them. :) In any case Cameron is the King of the Pedals with the added bonus that he sort of talks like Sheldon on the Big Bang Theory! I would love to see a vid of Cameron telling a joke :)
sina4 1 year ago
@menschmaschine5
On a tracker organ? No way my man. No possible way you can play that fast on a tracker pedal board. The mechanical works could never return in time for his passage work, and besides, it would take an incredible amount of physical strength to open those remote bass pipes at that tempo. Bach was very good, but by the time he composed the Musical Offering to which you eluded, he was a very old man and incapable of performing complex pedal work. See Spitta, LIfe of Bach, V II
sina4 1 year ago
I cannot even imagine playing Chopin with my feet!
metavoia 2 years ago
A 21st century Fox.
JustinHEMI05 2 years ago
This is amazing I love the way his a*se moves at 3.14 and on... this piece is such a turn on!
CJCappella 2 years ago 4
The revolutionary Dance
Ursulocrow 2 years ago
FANTASTIC!!!! I'm without words!!!!!!
marcosfeitosa1 2 years ago
Ecco come distruggere la professionalità della musica e del musicista.
Werckstarck 2 years ago
I went to his concert to promote the release of this CD/DVD. Very kool of him to sign it
bombarde1701 2 years ago
I wanna be his stress relief after the recital.
StevenGSR 2 years ago
WOW! I wonder what Virgil Fox is thinking as he looks down from heaven and sees Cameron fly away at the keyboards?
bikdav 2 years ago
Cameron called all his internet haters "maggots" last night in a radio interview
how true
VD54K 2 years ago 3
Just imagine the skill and coordination anyone would need to pull off something like this. That's what's most astounding of all. I bet only a very few people could do this. Congratulations Cameron.
Asgoodasgod 2 years ago 4
Asgoodasgod, I agree completely! I was thinking something similar, like "if you can't do it then STFU" All these armchair critics who can't criticise his musicianship, so they make fun of his outfit and his sexuality. Proof positive how bankrupt their arguments are.
bckm54 2 years ago
His get up is pretty ridiculous. I don't need to be able play like he does to critized his clothing, since the two are not even related.
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bckm54 2 years ago
If you ever needed some definition on what is grotesque, there you have it! A genuine master-piece! Imressive is how much time M. Carpenter must have spent on regulating his nervous system so completely, and perfectly, in order to achieve that accoustical tutti frutti. Some institution should grant him an award, don't you think?
PHILIPPEFRITSCH 2 years ago
The only tutti-frutti on here is you, dumbass
ny1news 2 years ago
So the nuthouse allows their clients to acces the internet eh philippefritsch??
Sesquiltera 2 years ago
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bckm54 2 years ago
I bought this CD/DVD in NYC after Cameron's recital at the Middle Collegiate Church (where he is organist) to promote the release of ths album. He was very kind and spent time talking to me and signed the new album. Truly great talent...his approach to the organ is quite different then most.
bombarde1701 2 years ago
Oh you attended? I really wonder how he does hymn accompanying.
Sesquiltera 2 years ago
Regardless of where Chopin literature is played, if it exposes a new audience to the composer, and possibly a new audience to the organ, then a great feat has been accomplished here. Organ and classic music circles have been dwindling for years...Cameron has opted for a new approach, and reached out to audiences beyond the 'concert set'...for this, I applaud him.
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bckm54 2 years ago
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This down right a mutilation of Chopin's beloved Etude. What the Devil!. No! This is not meant to be played on Org.
username1p 3 years ago
Just say to Glenn Gould that Bach's harpsichord pieces are not supposed to be played on a piano username1p. He'll laaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaugh!!!
Sesquiltera 2 years ago
I am speechless! This is at once amazing, tremendous and at the same time a terrible thing to do to Chopin. Still, he must be able to romp through the organ repertoire.
Gapregistration 3 years ago
I don't think that there enough rhinestones and sparkles in this video... lol...
Fozzymaple 3 years ago
Evening ladies, and I thought trumpet players could get a bit tetchy.... Fabulous to hear and see such virtuosity. At the end of the day, it is always the sound that matters, just looked this up 'cos I heard him on The Culture Show at the Royal Albert Hall - he played it slower, but 'cos of the sound of that mighty beast, it was even more impressive to my humble, brass addled ears.
mattdoubleday 3 years ago
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You're so gay.
Abschaumgrinder 3 years ago
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You're gay.
matze235 3 years ago
Great. Chopin as a circus act.
BlueCougar 3 years ago
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your mother was in the circus
she fucked a shit shoveler which is how you came about
VD54K 3 years ago
VD54K, there is no need to insult all the shit shovelers of the world... :)
bckm54 2 years ago
I personally think the pieces Chopin wrote for piano should never be played on the organ... it just doesn't sound right... you have to admit though Cameron's skill is superb.
codeman2008 3 years ago 3
@codeman2008
I totally agree with you, these pieces should not be played on the organ. What Cameron has done here is used them as the prime specimen for his 'show business', whilst its undeniably true he has a strong pedal point, but I don't appreciate the impression this brings on the public that "faster is better".
Its obvious he can play it perfectly on the organ but in no way does it mean its going to sound nearly as good as the original.
Thanks for your honest input.
advisorC101 2 years ago
Great. Internet nerdo timekillers acting as music critics.
Sesquiltera 2 years ago
Fantastico! Amazing technique, control and athleticism. And mostly with the toes, rarely uses heels. A phenomenon in the organ world for sure.
firesong75 3 years ago 2
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his erieeee version is so fucking kool as jesus shit @@@ this is awesome!!! if only he were hetero and sexually frustrated might it sound better XD
xollyeux 3 years ago
I'm sorry, but I thought we were commenting on this guy's talents at the console, not your new President. You need to ignore what the guy is wearing and appreciate sheer talent. Long may you continue Cameron. Regards from the UK.
haveagoheros 3 years ago