Cameron Carpenter: The Rising Star at the OrganConcert
This event is in the past.
On Christmas Day, Cameron Carpenter will grace the Isarphilharmonie with his own organ and a programme of Bach.
This event is in the past.
On Christmas Day, Cameron Carpenter will grace the Isarphilharmonie with his own organ and a programme of Bach.
From London to Melbourne, an enthusiastic international audience celebrates him as a rising star. But Cameron Carpenter is not content to merely prove his mastery of manuals and pedals in breathtaking runs. With both technical and musical virtuosity, he effectively reassembles the organ from its component parts, letting this grand old instrument shine in a new, up-to-date light. It’s no surprise that the soloist’s aesthetic includes clothing and organ pews to his own design: like Carpenter’s overall look, his skill at the instrument has no equal. His use of the manuals and pedals are a pleasure to behold, his musical interpretations captivate and amaze. Never before has the organ been heard in this way; never before has anyone dared to show off this instrument with such glitter and glamour. His feet skip across the pedals, his fingers race over the keys as if in an intoxicated dance – Carpenter is, after all also a dancer –, sweeping away any vestige saintliness.
Works by Johann Sebastian Bach
- Fantasia and Fugue in D minor, BWV 537
- Prelude and Fugue No 1 in C major, BWV 870 from The Well-Tempered Clavier, Part 2
- Prelude and Fugue No 11 in F major, BWV 880 from The Well-Tempered Clavier, Part 2
- Fantasia super, Komm, Heiliger Geist, BWV 651
Choral prelude O Mensch, bewein’ dein’ Sünde groß, BWV 622 - Prelude and Fugue in E-flat major, BWV 552 St Anne
- Goldberg Variations, BWV 988
