Cameron Carpenter plays Sparks on Cameron Live
Not content to coproduce the DVD, and perform both the DVD and the CD, the multitalented Carpenter also designed the album package, reflecting a balanced duality of two completely different discs in a single musical offering. It s a fitting artistic expression from a young virtuoso who lives and performs in the 21st Century, but whose genrebending compositions, arrangements, and virtuoso performances have placed him in the ranks of 19th and 20th Century greats like Horowitz, Paganini, and Liszt. For CAMERON LIVE The DVD quite possibly the most exciting serious music DVD ever made Carpenter performed on a fourmanual Wurlitzer organ (from silent film s heyday) in the Hardman Studio in front of three HD cameras. The DVD includes two world premiere recordings of his own works (Three Intermezzi for Cinema Organ and Will o the Wisp from Fifteen Inventions on Chopin s Etudes), his nowfamous arrangement of Sousa s Stars and Stripes Forever (the first to faithf
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