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Cameron Carpenters International Touring Organ in der Galerie Herrenhausen

© Helge Krückeberg

CAMERON CARPENTER: VANITAS

THUR 4.6. | 20:00 | GALERIE | CONCERT | Until recently, the organ led a relatively marginalized exist-ence within the concert world, almost exclusively limited to performances in churches and within the context of church music.

Cameron Carpenter has changed all this with his own portable “International Touring Organ”, filling large concert halls. His own arrange-
ments cover an extensive range spanning Chopin to Velvet Underground. For traditionalists, this is a nightmare, but even they are forced to admit respect for his great virtuosity. “Vanitas”, an attitude seeing vanity and futility in all human endeavour, formed a dark and depressive counterpoint to the exuberant sensual pleasures of the Baroque period. The programme compiled by Carpenter in cooperation with the KunstFestSpiele Herrenhausen for the Baroque scenario of the Galerie in Herrenhausen focuses on the latent crossroads between Baroque and contemporary attitudes to life. The variable positioning of the pipes of the “International Touring Organ” permit a tonal quality in surround sound perfectly adapted to this special venue; on the basis of state-of-the-art technology Carpenter’s instru-ment is blending tonal properties of historical organs with modern sounds never heard before. The venerable queen of instruments gives a youthful and attractive impression in its fine new guise.

Jan Pieterszoon Sweelinck: „Mein Junges Leben hat ein End“
Marcel Dupré: „Le monde dans l'attente du Saveur“
Johann Sebastian Bach: „O Mensch, bewein dein Sünde groß“
Johann Sebastian Bach: „Fantasie und Fuge“; c-minor BWV 537
Joe Hisaishi-Cameron Carpenter: „Legend of the Wind“ aus Hayao Miyazaki's Film "Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind”
Richard Wagner-Cameron Carpenter: Ouvertüre „Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg“
Franz Liszt-Cameron Carpenter: „Funérailles“
Cameron Carpenter: Improvisation - Symphony in three Movements I., II., III.

After the concert there will be an autograph session in the Arne-Jacobsen-Foyer.

ORGAN Cameron Carpenter

PRICE GROUP C (40/30/20 | red. 35/25/15)

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A production by the KunstFestSpiele Herrenhausen

Event(s): 04.06.2015 
from 20:00 to 22:00 o'clock
Location

Galerie Herrenhausen

  • Herrenhäuser Straße 3a
  • 30419 Hannover
Blick in den schmuckvollen Hauptsaal der Galerie Herrenhausen © Hassan Mahramzadeh