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classical music, opera, theatre

Cameron Carpenter and the Academy of St Martin in the Fields

one interval
Béla Bartók National Concert Hall
  • Produced by Müpa Budapest

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Outrageous or brilliant? Autocratic or authentic? The enfant terrible of the organ returns to Müpa, the taboo-breaking, stereotype-defying American who takes diabolical liberties with the instrument of religious devotion, conjuring music from the organ like no one else before him and performing even familiar works in unconventional fashion. When setting tones and registrations on the organ, he often prefers his own concepts to those of the composer, drastically deviating from customary modes of articulation and frequently embroidering and improvising upon the written score. This all produces something similar to what the audience might have felt when they saw and heard the "Devil's violinist” Paganini on stage: we cannot believe our eyes or ears. It is dazzling what this phenomenon with a punk hairdo and high-heeled leather cowboy boots does with his feet when playing the cascading left-hand runs of Chopin's Revolutionary Étude on the pedals.
The first organist to be nominated for a solo Grammy Award, Cameron Carpenter's repertoire includes everything from Bach works to film music, as well as a huge number of transcriptions. He developed his jet-black five-manual portable instrument himself, because as a concert performer he wished to enjoy the same relationship with the instrument he plays - wherever in the world he travels - as a violinist who takes their own instrument everywhere they go. On this occasion, the organist known for his jaw-dropping performances will be accompanied by one of the world's finest chamber ensembles, the Academy of St Martin in the Fields founded by Sir Neville Marriner.


Presented by: Müpa Budapest

Sections

  • Improvisations of Cameron Carpenter
  • J. S. Bach: Piano Concerto in A major BWV 1055 (transcription of Cameron Carpenter for organ and string orchestra)
  • Sally Beamish: Variations on a Theme of Benjamin Britten
  • Poulenc: Organ Concerto in G minor, FP 93
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  • Britten: Variations on a Theme of Frank Bridge, op. 10
  • Gershwiniana: Gershwin songs for organ and string - transcriptions of Dan Powers
  • organ
    Cameron Carpenter
  • Concertmaster
    Tomo Keller

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