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Organ concerts => Other Keyboard concerts by Young Musicians => Topic started by: dragonser on December 06, 2010, 01:41:35 AM

Title: video clip of Cameron Carpenter on CBS
Post by: dragonser on December 06, 2010, 01:41:35 AM
Hi,
I saw this posted on one of the pipe organ music lists and thought I would post here.

http://www.cbsnews.com/video/watch/?id=7119938n

regards Peter B
Title: Re: video clip of Cameron Carpenter on CBS
Post by: David Pinnegar on December 06, 2010, 03:52:22 AM
Hi!

Like him or . . . . he is certainly _succeeding_ in putting the organ on the map. I just hope that other organists don't feel they have to follow his style. . . . !

Best wishes

David P
Title: Re: video clip of Cameron Carpenter on CBS
Post by: NonPlayingAnorak on December 06, 2010, 04:47:26 AM
[Prejudicial comments deleted]


[Please note that opinions expressed here are the opinions of the writer and not necessarily those of others]

If you're looking for just the right balance between virtuosity and sheer, staggering, totally modest artistry, I suggest you look up Nathan Laube. He could play Cameron Carpenter off the map - and, in fact, he owes to CC only one thing, the fact that CC cancelled his UK tour two years ago at only six weeks' notice and the then 19-year-old Laube took it over with even less notice than that, and wowed everyone. I heard him at St Michael's Cornhill last week and was stunned by his playing... his own transcription of the Overture from Die Fledermaus, played from memory, then Franck's A Minor Choral, then Reubke's 94th Psalm Sonata (the latter two, forgivably, played from scores). His website and YouTube are both worth a look to get an idea of his playing, and transcribing skill.