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Topic Started: Oct 8 2012, 02:28 AM (217 Views)
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Cameron Carpenter

playing Bach's incomparable Tocatta and Fugue in D Minor.

I wrote him a letter and he wrote back!!!!("Keep practicing - Cameron!")

I love how he slides between keyboards.

is he the greatest living organist? i think so.
it behooves me to behold
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mrenaud
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I'm not that a big fan of Carpenter, he's got a brilliant technique, certainly, but I think he's the organist counterpart to Lang Lang. My personal shortlist would rather include organists like Olivier Latry, Jean Guillou, Zsigmond Szathmary and Hans-Ola Ericsson amongst others. Latry recorded a brilliant Messiaen box, and Szathmary's rendering of Ligeti's Volumina is probably the recording to have (having the composer's seal of approval and all that). Carpenter, like Lang Lang, is quite the showman, and I think the music, being reduced to a vehicle to display his virtuosity, suffers a lot in the process.
Edited by mrenaud, Oct 8 2012, 12:02 PM.
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kenny
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I wish they would record organs outside, where there can be no reflected sound.
IMHO, almost every organ recording I've heard sounds muddy and blurred with echo/reverb.
Articulation is lost.
In fast passages notes and chords blend with lingering previously-played notes.
This produces beating and dissonance.

I'm sure most people feel it's "supposed" to sound that way, (organs usually being in churches) but it just sounds to me like the notes are all drowning in each other.

Funny, it didn't bother me that much before I learned to tune pianos.
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RosemaryTwo
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HOLY CARP!!!
Good point kenny boy.
"Perhaps the thing to do is just to let stupid run its course." Aqua
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interesting Kenny - i love how pipe organs produce reverberation.
it behooves me to behold
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