Binding: Audio CD
EAN: 0089408071126
Label: Telarc
Manufacturer: Telarc
MPN: 80711
Number Of Discs: 1
Publisher: Telarc
Release Date: September 23, 2008
Studio: Telarc

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Disc 1:

1. Chopin: Ètude, Op. 10, No. 12 in C Minor "The Revolutionary"
2. Bach: "Evolutionary" Toccata and Fugue in D Minor, BWV 565 WORLD PREMIERE
3. Solitude
4. Demessieux: Octaves, from Six Ètudes, Op. 5
5. Liszt: Mephisto Waltz No. 1 (The Dance in the Village Inn)
6. Carpenter: Love Song No. 1 (2008) WORLD PREMIERE
7. Dupré: Prelude and Fugue in B Major, Op. 7, No. 1
8. Chopin: Ètude in C Major, Op. 10, No. 1
9. Bach: Chorale Prelude on Nun komm, der heiden Heiland, BWV 659, from the Great Eighteen Chorales
10. Horowitz: Variations on a theme from Bizet's Carmen
11. Carpenter: Homage to Klaus Kinski WORLD PREMIERE

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Editorial Review:

Album Description:
Revolutionary showcases an artist who is not only breaking ground, but who runs a musical gamut that any musician would be extremely hard-pressed to match. There are only four organ works included. Three are major pinnacles of the organ repertoire (the blistering, nearly unplayable Etude in Octaves by the French modernist Jeanne Demessieux; Prelude and Fugue in B major by Marcel Dupré; and Bach's deeply moving chorale-prelude Now Come, Savior of the Gentiles, while the fourth is the world premiere recording of Cameron's suggestive Love Song No. 1 (2008). The album's major departures, though, are found in Duke Ellington's Solitude (wittily combined with Bach's Sheep May Safely Graze); Liszt's Mephisto Waltz, and Vladimir Horowitz' Carmen Variations. Here are two of Chopin's Études in versions so convincing that they might have been organ music; and Cameron's Evolutionary Toccata and Fugue in D Minor, an outrageous survey of the various instrumental arrangements that made Bach's work famous. All this is recorded not on a pipe organ, but on the equally revolutionary Marshall & Ogletree Virtual Pipe Organ at Trinity Church Wall Street in New York City - an organ that, rising out of the destruction of Trinity's pipe organ on September 11, 2001, continues to challenge the status quo of the pipe organ and the artistic possibilities of organ playing in general.




Rating: - Not as written.....but as felt.
I too have a degree in Organ Performance. All instruments have been improved over the decades and centuries. Playing Mozart on the piano today does not sound like Mozart during his own time. I love the fact that Mr. Carpenter is taking advantage of modern technology and his own musical sensibility. Say what you will....a talent like this is rare....and only comes along every 100 years or so. I hope he does become a star....then the organ will become a star as well. He does not play with Bach's ... Read More

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Rating: - Revolutionary [Includes Bonus DVD]
Loved the CD and the bonus DVD.
Such a talented guy. You'll love this recording if you like organ music.

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Rating: - A Quick Thrill
Not much has changed since Cameron's last CD, Mussorgsky: Pictures at an Exhibition [Includes DVD]. Once you get past the wow factor of his technical prowess there's not much else. Style without substance.

After the first listen it becomes rather boring, and judging by the number of used copies for sale in the amazon.com marketplace, time to put up for sale.

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Rating: - amazing!
I first stumbled across this artist on YouTube and his live performance of "Stars and Stripes" was so tremendous, I emailed the link to all of my musical friends. I am a concert pianist and have played and heard many, many concerts in my life and I have to say that we need more Cameron Carpenters breathing new life into classical music. Most organ recitals are yawnsville but his playing is a long, long way from the pedantry of many organists' precious interpretations of Bach and others. Yes, he ... Read More

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Rating: - "Innovative"
It was a pleasure hearing and watching this brilliant artist with his innovative and creative style. While this CD/DVD is saturated with hunger and ambition, it's also confident and sophisticated. It is a work of effortless symphonic grandeur, beautifully excessive and ornamented with dazzling arrangements.

I can understand why the "purists" give this CD a substandard review - they tend not to think outside of the box.

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