Mini-organ in the social room at one of the group homes today. Had to try it out! (after the residents left❤️😷). Almost enough keys for Goldberg variation #13. @buendnisbuergerstiftungen @buergerstiftunggronau @deutsche_stiftungen #cameroncarpenter | Cameron Carpenter

#TonalTour of the #InternationalTouringOrgan for organ fans continues with the Solo division. Sadly, I forgot to demonstrate the Solo Harmonium, a three-rank Solo subdivision that provides independent 8’, 4’ and 8’ Celeste pressure harmonium reed stops under expression. This can be heard in the existing recordings of Piazzolla’s ‘Oblivion’, in ‘Music for an Imaginary Film’, and infamously in the soft middle section of Poulenc’s ‘Concerto’ on the Rachmaninoff album. I’ll cover it in a later catch

Meant to post this yesterday, here’s some Bach from the new ITOxAM organ lab at Alte Münze Berlin :) | Cameron Carpenter

BACH IN ERFURT (Full video at IGTV @cameronorganist) From one of the two concerts today at MDR Musiksommer, here’s JS Bach’s astounding Fantasia on the chorale Komm, Heiliger Geist from the ‘Great 18’ Leipzig Chorales, BWV 651 - played for radio and a live audience on the 1938 E. F. Walcker organ in the Augustinerkloster, Erfurt, Germany. I was honored to spend some time on a pipe organ in this historic city. This organ has its original console, worn to be sure but well loved. Great to be togeth