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CAMERON CARPENTER - REVOLUTIONARY (HYBRID SACD)

Cameron Carpenter Revolutionary On Hybrid SACD

Revolutionary is the debut Telarc release from maverick organist, Cameron Carpenter and the album turns the organ world upside down and challenges all expectations of the instrument. Revolutionary not only showcases an artist who is breaking ground, but runs a musical gamut that any musician would be hard pressed to match. Classically speaking, 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. The fourth is the world premiere recording of Cameron’s suggestive Love Song No. 1. 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. Two of Chopin’s Études are presented so convincingly that they might have been organ music. Finally, Carpenter’s Evolutionary Toccata and Fugue in D Minor is an outrageous survey of the various instrumental arrangements that made Bach’s piece 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 traditional 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.

“If I had to play the organ like they teach you to play it, like they want you to play it in the conservatory and the church, I’d go mad. I’d take up the electric guitar. Or maybe law,” explained Cameron Carpenter last March during a break in recording sessions for Revolutionary. “The organ is the darkest remnant of classical music’s most arch tradition, you don’t see organists creating, really questioning boundaries like you see in dance, hip-hop, film.”

Cameron Carpenter Revolutionary Track Listing

1. Chopin: Etude, Op. 10, No. 12 in C Minor "The Revolutionary"
2. Bach: "Evolutionary" Toccata and Fugue in D Minor, BWV 565'
3. Solitude
4. Demessieux: Octaves, from Six Etudes, Op. 5
5. Liszt: Mephisto Waltz No. 1 (The Dance in the Village Inn)
6. Love Song No. 1
7. Dupré: Prelude and Fugue in B Major, Op. 7, No.1
8. Chopin: Etude 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. Variations on a theme from Bizet's Carmen
11. Homage to Klaus Kinski 

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