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Friday, 11 August 2017
7.30 pm Gstaad Festival Tent

The organ only as a church instrument and for meditation? A cliché that you will quickly discard should you ever cross the path of Cameron Carpenter, a veritable popstar on this instrument. One can certainly say that when he plays the organ the nickname “king of the instruments” has never been truer. The young American studied at the Juilliard School in New York and plays the keys of this instrument as if there are no limitations, making full use of the thousands of colors of its registers as well as the power of its pipes, not only with works from the symphonic repertoire but also with his own compositions.

Cameron Carpenter, Organ  

  
Cameron Carpenter (1981) 
Improvisation – “Fanfare on the State Trumpet, Tuba Mirabilis & English Post Horn Registers” 
Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750) 
Fantasy and Fugue in G Minor, BWV 542 
Prelude and Fugue in B Minor, BWV 544 
Louis Vierne (1870-1937) 
Toccata in B Minor from the “Pièces de fantaisie”, Op. 53 No. 6 
“Naïades” from the “Pièces de fantaisie”, Op. 55 No. 4 
“Carillon de Westminster” 
– Interval – 
Richard Wagner (1813-1883) 
Overture to the Opera “Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg” (arranged for organ by Cameron Carpenter) 
Alexander Scriabin (1872-1915) 
Piano Sonata No. 4 in F-sharp Minor, Op. 30 
Cameron Carpenter (1981) 
3 Improvisations 
Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750) / arr. Leopold Stokowski (1882-1977) 
Passacaglia and fugue in C Minor, BWV 582 
 100'
CHF 115 / 85 

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