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Cameron Carpenter
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Cameron Carpenter sitzenden an der ITO Cameron Carpenter transforms the mighty preludes and fugues of the St Thomas cantor Johann Sebastian Bach 1746, mit Rätselkanon (Ölgemälde von Elias Gottlob Haußmann) Johann Sebastian Bach into pure emotion on Orgel im Grazer Stefaniensaal the large organ in the Stefaniensaal in Graz.

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surging sea of sounds

Cameron Carpenter ist der Leonard Bernstein unter den Organisten: An der großen Orgel des Stefaniensaals verwandelt er die gewaltigen Präludien und Fugen des Thomaskantors in pure Emotion, getragen vom wogenden Meer der Klänge. Die erschütternde g-Moll-Fantasie und die monumentale Tripelfuge aus dem dritten Teil der „Clavier-Übung“ umrahmen ein Programm aus Bach-Klassikern vom Choral bis zur Variation. Auch Bachʼsche Klavierwerke überträgt Carpenter auf die Farbenpracht der Orgel.

Programme

Johann Sebastian Bach: Fantasy and Fugue in g minor, BWV 542 / Prelude and Fugue in C major, BWV 870 and in F major, BWV 880 from “Well Tempered Piano”, second part / Komm, Heiliger Geist, BWV 651, from “Leipziger Chorälen” / O Mensch, bewein’ dein’ Sünde groß, BWV 622 from “Orgelbüchlein” / Prelude and Fugue in E flat major, BWV 552 / Extracts from “Goldberg Variations”, BWV 988

Duration: around 70 minutes without a break 

Tickets

Prices: EUR 24 / 48 / 72

Reductions:
U27 (for all under 27) & Ö1 Intro: 50 % reduction

Cameron Carpenter

Organ

Fit as a fiddle, eccentric as Glenn Gould: Cameron Carpenter from the USA has redefined the organ concert format. And that is by no means only due to his eccentric clothes or his high-tech travelling organ. What has made him a punk icon of his guild is his ingenious approach to the repertoire from Bach to pop.