Cameron Carpenter

Cameron Carpenter

…a close-up visit with one of the most enterprising talents on the world music scene, with excerpts from recent concert performances and his newly-released Telarc Records compact disc, Revolutionary.

Program Broadcast dates:

• Week of September 15, 2008

Links and Resources:

• Fleetly Flying Feet - Video of Chopin’s Revolutionary Etude
• Printable program listings

Listen to additional comments from Cameron Carpenter

• These conversations with Michael Barone were recorded in 2005 and 2008:

• 1. His evolving musical interest (2005)
• 2. The blending of the interpretive player and the virtuoso (2005)
• 3. Getting to know an instrument (2005)
• 4. Views on challenges for the organist in the 21st century
•      ( Part 1 - 2005 )  ( Part 2 - 2005 )  ( Part 3 - 2008 )

Music played in the program

Part I

J. S. BACH (arranged Carpenter): Evolutionary Toccata & Fugue in d, S. 565 (Marshall & Ogletree Opus 1)

MARCEL DUPRE: Prelude & Fugue in B, Op. 7, no. 1 (Opus 1)

CAMERON CARPENTER: Love Song #1 (premiere) (Opus 1)

Part II

JEANNE DEMESSIEUX: Octaves (No. 6), from Six Etudes, Op. 5 (1927 Casavant–2001 Schantz)

JOE HISAISHI (arranged Carpenter): The Promise of the World and The Merry-Go-Round of Life, from Howl’s Moving Castle (Casavant/Schantz)

FREDERIC CHOPIN: Revolutionary Etude in c, Op. 10, no. 12 (Casavant/Schantz)

DUKE ELLINGTON-PERCY GRAINGER-J.S. BACH-CAMERON CARPENTER: Solitude (a blended meditation of quiet moments) (Opus 1)

Part III

PERCY GRAINGER: Colonial Song (Casavant/Schantz)

CAMERON CARPENTER: Nautical Rhapsody (premiere) (Casavant/Schantz)

VLADIMIR HOROWITZ: Variations on a Theme from Carmen (Opus 1)

JOHN PHILIP SOUSA: Stars and Stripes Forever (Casavant/Schantz)

Filler–FRANZ LISZT: Mephisto Waltz (Telarc CD-80711)

 

In conversation with host Michael Barone, Mr. Carpenter reveals some of his revolutionary ideas, and demonstrates his unique and amazing talent as virtuoso, tone-painter, composer and philosopher.

 

Performances were recorded on the Marshall & Ogletree Opus 1 digital virtul pipe organ at Trinity Episcopal Church in New York City (Telarc CD-80711) and the vibrant 108-rank 1927 Casavant–2001 Schantz pipe organ at Saint Andrew’s Lutheran Church in Mahtomedi, MN (recorded 1/29/07 and 6/24/08).

 

Cameron Carpenter presents a six-day Organ Exposé of concerts, workshops and celebrations (September 24-28, 2008) at Middle Collegiate Church ( 50 East 7 th Street) in the East Village, New York, NY.