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About LinkBacksi.e. Carpenter...looking past the appearance I do like his playing..even if quite the showman.. terrific pedal work in my opinon.
i.e. Carpenter...looking past the appearance I do like his playing..even if quite the showman.. terrific pedal work in my opinon.
" The essance of reproduction,to feel and re-create that which was felt and impared by the creater,does not exclude- within natural limitations-the assertion of creative power" - Dr. Hugo Goldschmidt.
I wish you the Best for each day, now and always.
Bill
Mr Bill - here I shall beg to differ. That school of musician ship where speed and dexterity are the hallmarks of greatness is anathema to me. When you compare Nigel Kennedy (who I detest for his showman ship) with the equally virtuosic Hillary Hahn (who has a gloriously considered and perfect style), I choose Ms Hahn ANY time.
Same goes for the likes of Carpenter (awful) and, for example Helmut Walcha (an equally brilliant, though FAR more humble organist).
I'm not an atheist and I don't think I can call myself a pantheist. We are in the position of a little child entering a huge library filled with books in many different languages. The child knows someone must have written those books. It does not know how. The child dimly suspects a mysterious order in the arrangement of the books but doesn't know what it is. That, it seems to me, is the attitude of even the most intelligent human being toward God.
—Albert Einstein.
I have heard one recoding of Carpenter on the Radio playing the Toccata and Fugue in D and that was enough for me. I thought his registration was atrocious.
Whilst CC's technical ability far surpasses what I or many others are ever likely to achieve, I find a huge amount wanting as far as his liberties of interpretation and registration are concerned. I'm also less than enamoured with his approach to the technology of his "virtual" touring organ and the uncompromising manner in which he promotes it, often to the detriment of thousands of years of the craft of organ building - there is an inherent arrogance in his manner which grates.
Marie Claire on the other hand, has always managed to command an air of authority simply by sitting at an instrument - any instrument - often before she even plays a note. Her playing, for my ears, has always carried a "friendly" (for want of a better word) but also seriously virtuose and ultimately satisfying aura. Same applies for her personality too - I was as nervous as hell during the lead up to meeting her. But within minutes, she had put me very well at ease, and I eventually found myself conversing with her as comfortably as I might a family member or close friend.
Music is made to transform the states of the soul, for an hour or an instant (J. Alain)
I detest show off too.
Even from bright stars ect.
I'm declared and confirmed Alain follower/fanatic, but David, as I like Walcha too, Was he ever like Carpenter and the rest of the "gang"? The man was blind.... and humble as far as I managed to know and a good teacher... No?
*It's like a fight with women, which always ends in .... bed.*
F.Kafka, Aphorisms.
Panos, Walcha's blindness has NOTHING to do with his abilities as an organist. I think he is still one of the supreme masters of the instrument (despite any perceived limited repertoire).
Marie-Claire Alain is, what can I say, the musician's musician. The musicality that emanates from her will always speak louder than Carpenter's freewheeling virtuosity.
These days I listen for musicality first and then fingerwork accuracy........
YES YES YES !Originally Posted by Corno Dolce
Br CD, not only these days but always...... This is how music should be IMHO.
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