Revolutionary [Includes Bonus DVD]

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.

Disc 1:

1. Chopin: Ètude, Op. 10, No. 12 in C Minor "The Revolutionary"
2. Bach: "Evolutionary" Toccata and Fugue in D Minor, BWV 565 WORLD PREMIERE
3. Solitude
4. Demessieux: Octaves, from Six Ètudes, Op. 5
5. Liszt: Mephisto Waltz No. 1 (The Dance in the Village Inn)
6. Carpenter: Love Song No. 1 (2008) WORLD PREMIERE
7. Dupré: Prelude and Fugue in B Major, Op. 7, No. 1
8. Chopin: Ètude 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. Horowitz: Variations on a theme from Bizet's Carmen
11. Carpenter: Homage to Klaus Kinski WORLD PREMIERE

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Customer Reviews

Rating: - Cameron Carpenter CD
prompt service.arrived in the condition as stated in description. properly packaged for shipping.
Rating: - Excellent Service
The CD arrived a lot quicker than I ever thought it would especially as it was the Christmas/New Year period.
Excellent service
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 album
This 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!!