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2 Sep 2012, Royal Albert Hall
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Proms 2012 Prom 68: Cameron Carpenter plays Bach

Prom 68: Cameron Carpenter plays Bach
16:00 Sun 2 Sep 2012 Royal Albert Hall
Flamboyant organist Cameron Carpenter’s second concert this weekend playing J. S. Bach, both unalloyed and as the basis for improvisation.
Flamboyant organist Cameron Carpenter’s second concert this weekend playing J. S. Bach, both unalloyed and as the basis for improvisation.

Programme

      • Improvisation on the Bourée from Cello Suite No. 3 in C major, BWV 1009(8 mins)
      • Fantasia in G minor, BWV 542(8 mins)
      • The Well-Tempered Clavier Book I – Prelude and Fugue No. 15 in G major, BWV 860(5 mins)
      • Syncretic Prelude and Fugue in D major (arr. C. Carpenter)(30 mins)

Performers

About this event

More J. S. Bach, both unalloyed and as the basis for improvisation. Then Cameron Carpenter’s grandest challenge yet: the ‘Syncretic Prelude and Fugue’ proceeds from the ‘ultimate’ chaconne to an astonishing transformation of the finale of Mahler’s Fifth, demonstrating its own links with Bachian practice.

Says Cameron, ‘The pairing of these two works is something I’ve only been able to attempt on a very few of the great organs of the world … it pushes me to my extreme utmost of both virtuosity
and expressivity, which is exactly how I’d hope to perform at the Proms.’

There will be no interval