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Performance TitleBBC Proms: Sir Henry Wood Promenade Concerts 2012 - One Hundred and Eighteenth Season - Prom 68 - Organ Recital: Cameron Carpenter
Performance Date2 September 2012
Performance DaySunday
Performance Time16:00
Main PerformersCameron Carpenter - organ
Set List'Fantasia and Fugue in G minor 'The Great', J S Bach,
'Etude - Fantasy for Pedals on the Prelude from Bach's Cello Suite No.1,
'Improvisation on the Bourée from Bach's Cello Suite No.3 in C Major', C Carpenter,
'J S Bach and Mahler - Syncretic Prelude and Fugue in D Major', arr. C Carpenter
ENCORE
'Improvisation on Jeeves and Worcester Theme'
Performance NotesMore 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.’

Introduced from the stage by BBC radio 3 presenter Christopher Cook.
Broadcast live on BBC Radio 3.
Related Archival MaterialProms Guide (RAHE/1/2012/58),
Programme (RAHE/1/2012/126),
Handbill (RAHE/6/2012/39),
Poster (RAHE/2/2012/24)
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Catalogue
Reference NumberTitleDate
RAHE/1/2012/126BBC Sir Henry Wood Promenade Concerts 2012 - One Hundred and Eighteenth Season - Prom 68 - Organ Recital: Cameron Carpenter2 September 2012
Work
Ref NoTitleNo of Performances
Work7673BBC Proms: Sir Henry Wood Promenade Concerts 2012 - One Hundred and Eighteenth Season76
Performers
CodeName of Performer(s)
DS/UK/1425Carpenter; Cameron (1981-); American organist
DS/UK/31Britain; British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC); 18 October 1922-; British public service broadcaster
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