Carson Cooman

Carson Cooman – Companions: Contemporary Organ Music (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:18:20 minutes | 1,22 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Divine Art

A new album of ten contemporary organ works from nine composers representing six countries. Carson Cooman presents a program of contemporary music for organ recorded on the remarkable post-romantic Thomas Gaida organ of the Pauluskirche in Ulm, Germany. The music varies widely in character and scope, from smaller character pieces and meditations to several dramatic, large-scale works. The final piece is the grand 15th organ symphony of English composer Bernard Heyes. Some like David Lasky’s ‘Peace Prayer No. 1’ have a special resonance in today’s world. Carson Cooman (b. 1982) is an American composer with a catalog of hundreds of works in many forms. As an active concert organist, Cooman specializes in the performance of contemporary music. Over 300 new compositions by more than 100 international composers have been written for him, and his organ performances can be heard on a number of releases and more than 3,000 recordings available online. He is also composer-residence at the Memorial Church, Harvard University.

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Carson Cooman – Marian Sawa: Music for Organ (2021)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 01:16:18 minutes | 636 MB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Divine Art

“Marian Sawa (1937-2005) began serious studies at the age of 14 at the Salesian Organ School, Przemysl, Poland. He toured actively as an organ performer and from 1966 taught organ at several prestigious schools. As a composer he wrote about 800 pieces in various genres, centred round his music for organ. His music builds on the Polish post-Romantic tradition, knitting fragments from folk tunes and hymns into his work, drawing strongly on Gregorian chant and traditional Polish material. Sawa’s personal and individual voice makes his music very recognizable and though little known in the West to date, he can be considered perhaps the greatest Eastern European organ composer of the 20th century. The pieces on this album, composed between 1971 and 2005, demonstrate vividly the range, variety and often enormous power of his compositions. Carson Cooman (b.1982) is an American composer with a catalog of hundreds of works in many forms – ranging from solo instrumental pieces to operas, and from orchestral works to hymn tunes. His music has been performed on all six inhabited continents. As an active concert organist, Cooman specializes in the performance of contemporary music. Over 300 new works have been composed for him by over 100 composers from around the world, and his organ performances can be heard on a number of recordings of which this is his fifth for Divine Art.”

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