If You Could Read My Mind
Cameron Carpenter (organ)
This is Carpenter's debut recording on the [International Touring Organ]...which, despite the organist's claim to the contrary, seems designed to show off the instrument rather than illuminate...
If You Could Read My Mind
Cameron Carpenter (organ)
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This is Carpenter's debut recording on the [International Touring Organ]...which, despite the organist's claim to the contrary, seems designed to show off the instrument rather than illuminate...
About
The Los Angeles Times described Cameron as “one of the rare musicians who changes the game of his instrument… He is a smasher of cultural and classical music taboos. He is technically the most accomplished organist I have ever witnessed… And most important of all, the most musical.”
A virtuoso composer-performer unique among keyboardists, Cameron’s approach to the organ is smashing the stereotypes of organists and organ music while generating a level of acclaim, exposure, and controversy unprecedented for an organist.
His repertoire – from the complete works of J. S. Bach and Cesar Franck, to his hundreds of transcriptions of non-organ works, his original compositions, and his collaborations with jazz and pop artists – is perhaps the largest and most diverse of any organist.
He is the first organist ever nominated for a GRAMMY® Award for a solo album 2009, the Telarc debut album "Revolutionary", released in 2008
About the Touring Organ:
Cameron is one of the first artists to ever build his own dream instrument - an organ that doesn't work with pipes but is a digital organ with sounds from instruments all over the world, digitalized through a new process. The organ was built to Cameron’s own specifications in collaboration with American digital organ pioneers, Marshall and Ogletree.
About the repertoire:
The album includes classical favorites known world-wide, as well as famous pop songs from the 1960s and 70s. All pop songs stem from Cameron's childhood/young adult memories and have a special meaning to him (born 1981). "Music for an imaginary film" is a composition by the artist himself and this is the world-premiere recording.
Contents and tracklist
Awards and reviews
August 2014
This is Carpenter's debut recording on the [International Touring Organ]...which, despite the organist's claim to the contrary, seems designed to show off the instrument rather than illuminate the music...I doubt if any organist in history has equalled Carpenter's technique...but purely aurally these visual sleights of hands and feet have no impact.