Bach & Hanson Cameron Carpenter

• Johann Sebastian Bach (1685 - 1750): Goldberg Variations, BWV 988 (Transcr. for Organ by Cameron Carpenter):
• 1 J.S. Bach: Goldberg Variations, BWV 988 (Transcr. for Organ by Cameron Carpenter): Aria 02:21
• 2 J.S. Bach: Goldberg Variations, BWV 988 (Transcr. for Organ by Cameron Carpenter): Variatio 1 a 1 Clav. 01:11
• 3 J.S. Bach: Goldberg Variations, BWV 988 (Transcr. for Organ by Cameron Carpenter): Variatio 2 a 1 Clav. 00:54
• 4 J.S. Bach: Goldberg Variations, BWV 988 (Transcr. for Organ by Cameron Carpenter): Variatio 3 a 1 Clav. Canone all'Unisono 01:03
• 5 J.S. Bach: Goldberg Variations, BWV 988 (Transcr. for Organ by Cameron Carpenter): Variatio 4 a 1 Clav. 00:35
• 6 J.S. Bach: Goldberg Variations, BWV 988 (Transcr. for Organ by Cameron Carpenter): Variatio 5 a 1 ovvero 2 Clav. 00:51
• 7 J.S. Bach: Goldberg Variations, BWV 988 (Transcr. for Organ by Cameron Carpenter): Variatio 6 a 1 Clav. Canone alla Seconda 00:47
• 8 J.S. Bach: Goldberg Variations, BWV 988 (Transcr. for Organ by Cameron Carpenter): Variatio 7 a 1 ovvero 2 Clav. Al tempo di Giga 01:01
• 9 J.S. Bach: Goldberg Variations, BWV 988 (Transcr. for Organ by Cameron Carpenter): Variatio 8 a 2 Clav. 00:55
• 10 J.S. Bach: Goldberg Variations, BWV 988 (Transcr. for Organ by Cameron Carpenter): Variatio 9 a 1 Clav. Canone alla Terza 01:05
• 11 J.S. Bach: Goldberg Variations, BWV 988 (Transcr. for Organ by Cameron Carpenter): Variatio 10 a 1 Clav. Fughetta 01:00
• 12 J.S. Bach: Goldberg Variations, BWV 988 (Transcr. for Organ by Cameron Carpenter): Variatio 11 a 2 Clav. 01:00
• 13 J.S. Bach: Goldberg Variations, BWV 988 (Transcr. for Organ by Cameron Carpenter): Variatio 12 a 1 Clav. Canone alla Quarta 01:42
• 14 J.S. Bach: Goldberg Variations, BWV 988 (Transcr. for Organ by Cameron Carpenter): Variatio 13 a 2 Clav. 01:48
• 15 J.S. Bach: Goldberg Variations, BWV 988 (Transcr. for Organ by Cameron Carpenter): Variatio 14 a 2 Clav. 01:12
• 16 J.S. Bach: Goldberg Variations, BWV 988 (Transcr. for Organ by Cameron Carpenter): Variatio 15 a 1 Clav. Canone alla Quinta. Andante 02:13
• 17 J.S. Bach: Goldberg Variations, BWV 988 (Transcr. for Organ by Cameron Carpenter): Variatio 16 a 1 Clav. Ouverture 01:40
• 18 J.S. Bach: Goldberg Variations, BWV 988 (Transcr. for Organ by Cameron Carpenter): Variatio 17 a 2 Clav. 01:00
• 19 J.S. Bach: Goldberg Variations, BWV 988 (Transcr. for Organ by Cameron Carpenter): Variatio 18 a 1 Clav. Canone alla Sesta 01:02
• 20 J.S. Bach: Goldberg Variations, BWV 988 (Transcr. for Organ by Cameron Carpenter): Variatio 19 a 1 Clav. 01:03
• 21 J.S. Bach: Goldberg Variations, BWV 988 (Transcr. for Organ by Cameron Carpenter): Variatio 20 a 2 Clav. 01:03
• 22 J.S. Bach: Goldberg Variations, BWV 988 (Transcr. for Organ by Cameron Carpenter): Variatio 21 a 1 Clav. Canone alla Settima 01:37
• 23 J.S. Bach: Goldberg Variations, BWV 988 (Transcr. for Organ by Cameron Carpenter): Variatio 22 a 1 Clav. Alla breve 00:51
• 24 J.S. Bach: Goldberg Variations, BWV 988 (Transcr. for Organ by Cameron Carpenter): Variatio 23 a 2 Clav. 01:07
• 25 J.S. Bach: Goldberg Variations, BWV 988 (Transcr. for Organ by Cameron Carpenter): Variatio 24 a 1 Clav. Canone all'Ottava 01:32
• 26 J.S. Bach: Goldberg Variations, BWV 988 (Transcr. for Organ by Cameron Carpenter): Variatio 25 a 2 Clav. Adagio 03:41
• 27 J.S. Bach: Goldberg Variations, BWV 988 (Transcr. for Organ by Cameron Carpenter): Variatio 26 a 2 Clav. 01:08
• 28 J.S. Bach: Goldberg Variations, BWV 988 (Transcr. for Organ by Cameron Carpenter): Variatio 27 a 2 Clav. Canone alla Nona 00:58
• 29 J.S. Bach: Goldberg Variations, BWV 988 (Transcr. for Organ by Cameron Carpenter): Variatio 28 a 2 Clav. 01:17
• 30 J.S. Bach: Goldberg Variations, BWV 988 (Transcr. for Organ by Cameron Carpenter): Variatio 29 a 1 ovvero 2 Clav. 01:09
• 31 J.S. Bach: Goldberg Variations, BWV 988 (Transcr. for Organ by Cameron Carpenter): Variatio 30 a 1 Clav. Quodlibet 01:02
• 32 J.S. Bach: Goldberg Variations, BWV 988 (Transcr. for Organ by Cameron Carpenter): Aria da capo 02:31
• Howard Hanson (1896 - 1981): Symphony No. 2 in D-Flat Major, Op. 30 "Romantic" (Transcr. for Organ by Cameron Carpenter):
• 33 Hanson: Symphony No. 2 in D-Flat Major, Op. 30 "Romantic" (Transcr. for Organ by Cameron Carpenter): 1. Adagio - Allegro moderato 14:50
• 34 Hanson: Symphony No. 2 in D-Flat Major, Op. 30 "Romantic" (Transcr. for Organ by Cameron Carpenter): 2. Andante con tenerezza 07:17
• 35 Hanson: Symphony No. 2 in D-Flat Major, Op. 30 "Romantic" (Transcr. for Organ by Cameron Carpenter): 3. Allegro con brio 08:29
• Total Runtime 01:12:55

Info for Bach & Hanson

He is considered the “bad boy” of the organ for a good many reasons. From outward appearance alone, Cameron Carpenter, with his flamboyant mohawk haircut, muscle shirt, and dancing shoes, is a far way off from stereotypes commonly associated with “classical music.” Not to mention that he has dared to bring his instrument out of the special sphere of sacred music. Carpenter rarely appears in churches and plays no pious chorales. He prefers to present his own arrangements of large symphonies – on the International Touring Organ, a digital instrument on which he can access 186 electronically input registers, controlling the dynamics as he pleases. He even interprets Bach’s music as follows: “I feel certain that anyone can play Bach in the way they see to be right.” Still, Carpenter will break a genuine “taboo” when he follows the moving Goldberg Variations with the Second Symphony by the American Howard Hanson, a musical spectacle that has been used in the film Alien – it’s hard to think of a greater contrast.

Cameron Carpenter

Cameron Carpenter
is having a ball smashing the stereotypes of organists and organ music – all the while generating worldwide acclaim and controversy. His repertoire – from the complete works of J. S. Bach to film scores, his original works and hundreds of transcriptions and arrangements – is probably the most diverse of any organist. He regularly appears as a soloist with many of the world’s great orchestras, and signed in 2013 an exclusive multi-album recording contract with Sony Classical. Cameron launches his International Touring Organ – a monumental digital organ of his own design, playable throughout the world – with two Lincoln Center concerts on March 9, the release of the Sony album If You Could Read My Mind on March 3, and a 31-concert tour to Europe, the USA and the UK.

A virtuoso composer-performer unique among keyboardists, Cameron’s approach to the organ is smashing the stereotypes of organists and organ music while generating a level of acclaim, exposure, and controversy unprecedented for an organist. His repertoire – from the complete works of J. S. Bach and Cesar Franck, to his hundreds of transcriptions of non-organ works, his original compositions, and his collaborations with jazz and pop artists – is perhaps the largest and most diverse of any organist. He is the first organist ever nominated for a GRAMMY® Award for a solo album.

As a keyboard prodigy, he performed Bach’s Well-Tempered Clavier at age 11 before joining the American Boychoir School in 1992 as a boy soprano. During his four years of high school studies at The North Carolina School of the Arts, he made his first studies in orchestration and orchestral composition, and transcribed for the organ more than 100 major works, including Gustav Mahler’s complete Symphony No. 5. Cameron continued composing after moving to New York City in 2000 to attend The Juilliard School. While at the School he composed art songs; the symphonic poem Child of Baghdad (2003) for orchestra, chorus and Ondes Martenot; his first substantial works for solo organ; and numerous organ arrangements of piano works by Chopin, Godowsky, Grainger, Ives, Liszt, Medtner, Rachmaninoff, Schumann, and others. Cameron received a Master’s Degree from The Juilliard School in New York in 2006.

The same year, he began his worldwide organ concert tours, giving numerous debuts at venues including Royal Albert Hall, the Leipzig Gewandhaus, Melbourne Town Hall, Tschaikowsky Hall in Moscow, Davies Hall in San Francisco and many others. His first album for Telarc®, the GRAMMY®-nominated Revolutionary (2008), was followed in 2010 by the critically acclaimed full length DVD and CD Cameron Live! Edition Peters became his publisher in 2010, beginning the ongoing release of his original works with Aria, Op. 1 (2010). His first major work for organ and orchestra, The Scandal, Op. 3, was commissioned by the Cologne Philharmonie (KölnMusic GmbH) and premiered on New Year’s Day 2011 by the Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie under the direction of Alexander Shelley. Of Cameron the composer, DIE WELT’s Manuel Brug writes: “Carpenter… is proving himself to be a clever eclecticist, who understands to entertain with much finesse, and admits with a wink that he is ‘annoyed by intellectual music’”. Cameron is one of the only performing artists to make a practice of meeting his audience in person before his performances – often spending over an hour before each concert shaking hands and signing autographs on the floor of a concert venue. With combined millions of hits on YouTube and numerous television, radio and press features including CNN The Next List, CBS Sunday Morning, BBC Radio 3, ARD, ZDF, NDR Kultur, The New York Times, The New Yorker, The Wall Street Journal and many others, he is the world’s most visible organist.

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