Cosmos Organ: Cameron Carpenter

Johann Sebastian Bach Prelude and Fugue in E flat major BWV 552
Fantasia and Fugue in G minor BWV 542
Modest Mussorgsky ‘Pictures at an Exhibition’ (Arr. Cameron Carpenter)

He is one of the most dazzling organists of all - now Cameron Carpenter is making his debut with us. He once had his first encounter with an organ in a children's magazine. There was a photo, not of a church, but of one of the cinema organs that were once commonplace. Perhaps it also has something to do with the fact that the American organist always appropriated works that were not originally intended for the organ. For this programme, he has arranged Mussorgsky's ‘Pictures at an Exhibition’ and elicited yet another facet from the legendary piano cycle, which also became famous in orchestral or pop versions. There is also Bach, in the original: Because this composer is also so important to Cameron Carpenter that he has released one of his CDs under the title ‘All You Need is Bach’.