One of the missions of Filharmonia Hungary is to delivers the best performers of classical music in every Unikum season. In 2022 the icing on the cake is coming! In February of the new year the “extravagant superstar” will blow up the Academy of Music.
The "taboo-breaker of classical music", American organ virtuoso, composer and organ designer Cameron Carpenter has brought an incredible freshness to the organ music scene. A unique program from the unique organist and the most knowledgeable Hungarian conductor of 19th-century works and historical music, Franz Liszt Prize-winning György Vashegyi, with the National Philharmonic Orchestra.
First half of concert: Cameron Carpenter’s own transcripts and organ works by famous composers:
Bach: Fantasia and Fugue in G Minor, BWV 542
Bach: Prelude and Fugue 1 in C Major (Well-Tempered Clavier, Book II), BWV 870
Bach: Prelude and Fugue 11 in F major (Well-Tempered Clavier, Book II), BWV 880
Bach: Fantasia on ‘Komm, Heiliger Geist”, BWV 651
Bach: Chorale-Prelude on ‘O Mensch, bewein’ dein Sünde gross’, BWV 622
Bach: Prelude and Fugue in E-flat major ‘St. Anne’, BWV 552
Mendelssohn: Choral cantatas
Rheinberger: Organ concerto No. 2.
