Bach Toccata and Fugue in D minor, BWV 565, Cameron Carpenter

Bach Toccata and Fugue in D minor, BWV 565, Cameron Carpenter

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• BWV 565
• Cameron Carpenter

[andreanoce85]

Why add notes to this piece in itself perfect?​? I do not understand! Poor Bach!

[BigOrganPipes]

@andreanoce85 i do not understand why people who only like hearing this piece played one certain way continue to listen to others play it. you have your favorite CD i'm assuming. so go listen to it and be happy

[BigOrganPipes]

i love watching his hands on the last chord at 8:31

[randycooke]

To be a critic is a pathetic attempt to rise above the talent in extremous that the person has just been exposed to. Come hear for yourself Friday April 1, 8:00 PM Princeton University Chapel.

[BigOrganPipes]

@randycooke Princeton University Chapel this Friday April 1st at 8pm

i already got my tickets !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

i was there Thursday, concert for organ & cello. i didn't get to hear the full power of the organ because the pieces were selected for cello & organ but I'm sure Cameron will open that baby up

we wont be able to watch him play, the front of the organ console faces the audience but there will be 2 giant projection screens with cameras on his hands and feet

see you there !!!

[BigOrganPipes]

@loorloop maybe you should record yourself playing it and show us what Bach intended

[VD54K]

I go to organ concerts. There's hardly ever 15 people there and that's if the retirement home bus shows up. Cameron is selling out Cathedrals around the world!

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.

[andreanoce85]

@monautremoi In Italy we say "the world is beautiful because it's different" ... I do not think there's anything wrong with thinking differently. However, I never wrote that Carpenter sounds bad, I would never!

[monautremoi]

@andreanoce85 You say "Poor Bach", I say I "I love this interpretation".

[andreanoce85]

@monautremoi I was again misunderstood. I do not understand why you can not accept my opinion on the respect of the musical text. I have already written what I think the previous comment. No need for me to repeat it. PS: I know the music of the Baroque period, both the "style fantasticus" of pre-Bach composers and I know how the uses which were at that time. With Bach, things changes. Even in pieces that seem more "improvised" Bach chose every single note he wrote.

[monautremoi]

You obviously know nothing about baroque music, this style was and is open to interpretation, like jazz for example, a lot is expected from the performer.

[andreanoce85]

@misilen24 (...) For example, from 6:34 to 6:48, begins a time of suspension of speech that could be likened to a great moment of silence, almost a "black hole" that sucks for a while the music. For this reason I wrote that there is no reason to add additional notes to this as the other pieces by Bach. I have not criticized at all the running or the Organist, because, I repeat, I think Carpenter is a great virtuoso. This is my opinion.

[andreanoce85]

@misilen24 Undoubtedly Bach was one of the greatest improvisers of all time, but compared to the musicians of his time when he put on paper the music he had thought or improvised, he wrote everything right to avoid the added ornaments or any other thing. That said, there is another issue that I think is important: Bach, in my opinion, is our contemporary composer, was one that looked forward and this thing is out of the relationship he had with silence (...)

[misilen24]

@andreanoce85

I think Bach would have loved - after all Bach was a master at improvising. He probably turned his own pieces upside down and inside out when he played them.

[JustinHEMI05]

@andreanoce85 Open your mind, if you're capable. You'll be a happier person and you'll understand what he is doing.

[JustinHEMI05]

@BigOrganPipes Couldn't agree more.