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Binding: Audio CDEAN: 0089408071126 Label: Telarc Manufacturer: Telarc Number Of Discs: 1 Publisher: Telarc Release Date: September 23, 2008 Sales Rank: 1618 Studio: Telarc Disc 1:
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. Average Rating:
![]() Rating: - A Young Organist of Refreshingly Vital "Star Power" Makes His Appearance on Recordings!The organ is such a refuge of the mediocre, the staid, the conformists among classical music's instrumentalists, that it is always a joy when an organist, such as the zesty young Cameron Carpenter, comes along who has -- ah, well, let's say it! -- real "pizazz", yea, verily even much showmanship! It is about time that an organist take up the mantle of the very much missed E. Power Biggs, who, like young Carpenter, played with rhythmic incisecisiveness (something, alas, all too rare among other organists) ... Read More Rating: - Fabulous Fun!!!I'm not sure whether this is great music - well, yes I am: it isn't -or is it? Someone else will have to figure that out. But I do know one thing: this kid is remarkably talented. I've just never seen anyone sit down (more or less) at an organ and do what he does. Fantastically entertaining. One more sacred cow gets blown to hell. And about time, too. Rating: - An outstanding must buy albumThis is a great album! The music is vigerous and exciting. The DVD shows playing technique that is unconventional and artisitc at the same time. Enjoy!! Rating: - Great technique but!Incredible technique with the organ. One would think that what he does is impossible, but yet he does it. Musical value is questionable but entertaining. Reminds me of Virgil Fox at his best, but technique overshadows the music to a great extent. Loved the DVD just to see it all happen. This guy can have a great future, but the musical values must be improved a great deal. Fun to listen to and watch, worth the price. Rating: - Nearly drove off the roadI hadn't heard this Carpenter CD, yet. Tonight Jim Svejda (KUSC FM, L.A.) played three selections, the Chopin, Ellington and Carmen. I was on the way home from Thanksgiving dinner, and I really had to concentrate on the traffic while this outrageous, inventive, screamingly virtuosic avalanche came at me in the car. The Chopin was not just showoff, it was a conception of marvelous invention. Rather than being dazzled by the obvious pedal work, I was taken most by the coloristic slicing and dicing going ... Read More Browse for similar items by category:
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