Listening to this in 2024. No words. My favourite version of this piece.

If anyone can massacre Bach beautifully and get away with it, it is Cameron Carpenter.

S kann man dieses großartige Werk auch verhunzen. 😢

OK, I can live with a a little freakish wildness now and then, all topped with a Mohawk. Bravo! ( but just don't tell Bach).

Except that the guy's name is Cameron and not Ameron: If this Toccata by Bach were a woman, she would accuse him (Cameron) of rape.

All about Cameron C, not JSB. CC is very talented, but making fun of a real composer does him no favours.

As oddly fasting as this piece is, it is certainly not Bach's Toccata and Fugue in D minor.

Not for the purists. But I think Bach would appreciate that his music is still being celebrated more than 250 years after his death.

A bit stiff and ponderous compared to Karl Richter's performance....as seen on KZbin.

melody at 8:44 in upper pedals is awesome...is that in the original music?

Hört sich doch etwas nach Drehorgel an ...

Beurk ! Affreux, à la poubelle. Pouah ! Bach à l'américaine ça n'a jamais été une réussite...Toute l'âme de l'oeuvre anéantie par tant de superficialité ! Aucune profondeur, aucune émotion, juste un peu de dextérité pour en mettre plein la vue (plein les oreilles ) Ah j'ai souffert !

What the fuck is that haircut

Awesome!

Sounds like the Phantom of the opera show .

too theatrical . No Disneyland style .

Sounds like a Calliope on Acid!

Terrible!😢 That's not Bach- it's Carpenter's show!

Alright organists, it's mashup time: 1 cup of Claire Coci, the greatest woman organist who ever lived and her transparent organ bench; Add 2 cups of Anthony Newman's fast fingered "notes inegales" and, finally, 3 cups of the verve and nerve of Virgil Fox with his rhinestone cowboy organ shoes, and, and what do you get? Cameron Carpenter!

Das Original ist der Orgasmus ❤

Funny, silly and virtuosic - I wonder what Bach would think of this?

CC is the Salvadore Dali of Bach ....

The worst performance. Good thing Bach doesn't hear it.

👏👏👏👏👏❤️

The ending D major chord with the Trumpet En Chamade!! 😭😭😭😭 So beautiful . . . .

The ghost of Virgil Fox.

No, no, no.

BRAVO

Personalissima interpretazione.

Damn, what an absolutely horrible sound from this electronic abomination that dares to call itself an organ. I hope it's the recording and not the actual sound it makes in real live. But fitting for an absolutely horrible interpretation I suppose.

There are many organists who play the Toccata and Fugue in D minor. But only Cameron Carpenter brings the masterpiece to life. Bach would enjoy it. 🙂🙏❤

Homeopathically spoken: STRAMONIUM

AT WHAT POINT DOES ECCENTRICITY FOR GIMMICK´S SAKE CROSS OVER INTO JUST BEING QUEER?

I can't believe some of the negative comments. Sounds thin? Well how was this recorded - outdoors and probably on a cell phone. Lost tempo? That's called playing with you soul. I could go on.

I agree. Not the way I like to hear Bach. He knows better.

Fantastic. What a genius is this man!

bellissima musica!

Carpenter, And Some Commentators On Here Are Obviously Unfamiliar With BACH'S OWN WORDS - "There's Nothing Remarkable About It. All One Has To Do Is Hit The Right Keys At The Right Time And The Instrument Plays Itself.”

Refreshing to hear CC's unique interpretation.

I have to vomit like that...

This just trivialized a masterpiece. All of the actually musicians behind him (who bring life to Bach THROUGH Bach, not by changing Bach) don't seem impressed. Besides, the first thing he did was play a wrong note (A Ab A, instead of A G A and then some "splap" of an accidental keystroke). If you take off the sparkly shoes and shave his mohawk you have a bald second-rate organist.

Just after the people walk out, watch the asides amongst the orchestra..!! The leavers obviously felt that they were standing by a town square barrel organ too.

*Sounds like poor Bach was having kidney stones, cat allergies and high fever while playing the Mighty Hockey Rink Wurlitzer after drinking way too much schnapps. Lucky some rich tacky gfriends could “invest” in Carpenter’s monstrous pseudo organ for their golden haired boi. Disappointed he didn’t use cannon stop anywhere. Very talented kitsch indeed, replete with sloppy but definitely overworked fingers enjoying note errors. Carpenter: true Liberace of the twenty-first century Wurlitzer. Little does the Boitoy realize that His version of Bach will rise as vampire Dracula from the grave and bite his genitals with slow acting but incurable lethal snake venom. So Carpenter can be endlessly be worshipped by troll fans in whatever haunt he chooses for his after afterlife. Free drinks, boys?*

nice sounds, but nop

BRAVO ! BRAVO !

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Carpenter's playful version can never replace the original, of course. It's a bit like "variations on" but more like "fiddling around with". Just don't think of it as a serious interpretation.

A+ for showing off. C- for musicality.

He definitely Cameronized this Bach piece but that is why we are fascinated and love to hear and see him perform!