Composer: Johann Sebastian Bach
Performer: Cameron Carpenter
Format: FLAC (tracks)
Label: Telarc
Catalogue: TEL3198002
Release: 2010
Size: 272 MB
Recovery: +3%
Scan: yes
01. Bach: Toccata in F# major, BWV 540
Bach: Prelude and Fugue in B minor, BWV 544
02. Prelude
03. Fugue
Bach: Prelude and Fugue in E minor, BWV 548
04. Prelude
05. Fugue
Bach: Prelude and Fugue in A minor, BWV 543
06. Prelude
07. Fugue
Bach: Prelude and Fugue in D major, BWV 532
08. Prelude
09. Fugue
Bach: Prelude and Fugue in G major, BWV 541
10. Prelude
11. Fugue
12. Carpenter: Improvised Cadenza
Carpenter: Serenade and Fugue on B.A.C.H.
13. Serenade
14. Fugue
The outstanding young organ virtuoso Cameron Carpenter burst on to the scene last year with an astonishing recording entitled “Revolutionary” (CD80711). Reviewers were fulsome in their praise of his gifts as a performer. In an interview, feature, and review in the Gramophone Jeremy Nicholas stated that his “rhythmic buoyancy, clarity of voicing, and sheer élan are quite masterly” in his interpretation of pieces by Dupré, and Demessieux. There was also an interview/feature in Classic FM magazine and cover feature in “Muso”. He was recently picked as one of the “New Stars of 2010” in Classic FM Magazine.
Unlike his first recording “Revolutionary” which was made on a virtual pipe organ, Cameron Carpenter’s second album for Telarc has been made on a large-scale acoustic instrument, the massive Aeolian-Skinner organ at New York’s Church of Saint Mary the Virgin. This CD/DVD two-disc album includes three preludes and fugues from J.S. Bach’s Well-Tempered Clavier and five preludes and fugues from the major organ works of Bach. The DVD features performances on a Wurlitzer pipe organ built in the early 20th Century. It includes arrangements of Shostakovich’s Festive Overture, two pieces by George Gershwin, “The Alcotts”, from Charles Ives’ Concord Sonata, Astor Piazzola’s Libertango, Mozkowski’s Sparks (“Etincelles”), Schubert’s Erlkönig, Rachmaninov’s arrangement of Bach’s Violin Sonata No. 3 in E Major, and Carpenter’s own celebrated arrangement of Sousa’s The Stars and Stripes Forever.