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If You Could Read My Mind

Cameron Carpenter (organ)

If You Could Read My Mind
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

Moderato
Track length0:49
Variation I: Larghetto
Track length0:32
Variation II: Poco animato
Track length0:30
Variation III: Canon à l'octave
Track length1:19
Variation IV: Vif
Track length0:23
Variation V: Vivace
Track length0:46
Variation VI: Canon à la quarte et à la quinte
Track length0:38
Variation VII: Vivace
Track length0:30
Variation VIII: Canon à la seconde
Track length1:29
Variation IX: Animé
Track length0:40
Variation X: Non troppo vivace
Track length1:35
Presto
Track length1:22
I. Andante
Track length3:47
II. Prestissimo volando
Track length5:40
I. Vivace
Track length3:23
II. Lento
Track length3:28
III. Allegro
Track length3:19

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.
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