This CD promises to display “the unique capabilities of Cameron Carpenter’s international touring organ”. The popular, spiky-haired American virtuoso has addressed the challenge of being a soloist unable to travel with his instrument. This digital organ, designed to his specifications, can fit into a truck and be assembled in a couple of hours. An idiosyncratic player, Cameron includes here his own arrangements of Contrapunctus IX from The Art of Fugue, a French Suite and Invention No 8 in F major (as well as some tracks Bach prepared earlier). Organ aficionados may wince, but to non-specialist ears the instrument sounds lively and flexible, from delicate to all-out beefy, much like its communicative player.
