Cameron Carpenter – Revolutionary (2008)
SACD Rip | SACD ISO | DST64 2.0 & 5.1 > 1-bit/2.8224 MHz | 63:44 minutes | Scans included | 3,65 GB
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Features Stereo and Multichannel Surround Sound | Label: Telarc # SACD-60711
Cameron Carpenter has been lauded as “the Maverick organist”, “madly original”, and “a superstar of the 21st-century organ”. His debut recording, Revolutionary, showcases an artist who is not only breaking new ground, but who runs a musical gamut that any musician would be extremely hard-pressed to match. This album made Carpenter the first organist ever to receive a Grammy nomination in the category ‘Best Solo Instrumental Performance’ (without orchestra) for a solo album.
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Cameron Carpenter – Rachmaninoff: Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini & Poulenc: Organ Concerto (2019)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 54:40 minutes | 513 MB | Genre: Classical
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The smasher of cultural and classical music taboos (LA Times) is releasing here his first recording with orchestra. Rachmaninoffs famous Paganini variations arranged for organ and orchestra by Cameron Carpenter himself. The album was recorded on the International Touring Organ, together with the Konzerthausorchester Berlin and Christoph Eschenbach A virtuoso composer-performer unique among keyboardists, Camerons 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.
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Cameron Carpenter – Bach & Hanson (2021)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:13:17 minutes | 1,19 GB | Genre: Classical
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The “extravagantly talented” (The New York Times) American organist Cameron Carpenter releases his first album on Decca Gold, a recording of J.S. Bach’s The Goldberg Variations, BWV 988 juxtaposed with his own transcription of American composer Howard Hanson’s Symphony No. 2 in D-flat Major, Opus 30, W45, “Romantic.” Both works are performed on Carpenter’s tailor-made instrument, the International Touring Organ, which was designed to allow him to perform at almost any location worldwide.
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Cameron Carpenter – All You Need is Bach (2016)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:13:21 minutes | 1,25 GB | Genre: Classical
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It’s not just any instrument on which the ‘bad boy of the organ’ Cameron Carpenter plays this selection of works by Bach: it is a custom-built instrument made to his exact specifications by the company Marshall & Ogletree. Supposedly “portable” – you still need some large trucks to carry everything – the console itself weighs no less than a ton. Still, the instrument can be dismantled into several pieces, comes with an incredible arsenal of special speakers, and a dedicated amplifier for a rich sound. This Op. 8 Marshall & Ogletree ‘Touring Organ’ is built, according to Carpenter, for ‘its emotional magnitude, its sonic range, its coloristic drama’. Purists of baroque music may flee in terror, just as they did in the days of the revolutionary Glenn Gould. With a hyper-modern view of his chosen musical arena and an orchestra composed of a seemingly infinite number of organs, this record is extravagant, intriguing. Bach as you’ve never heard before.
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