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Toccata No. 2: Violoncello Solo (Sheet music free download)
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Toccata No 2 in a version for solo violoncello (originally written for organ in 1982)
Sensational recording project in USA
Important collaborations –
CARSON COOMAN
American concert organist and composer,
Composer in Residence at The Memorial Church, Harvard University
Link to Carson Cooman’s website
Carson Cooman records over 70 of Thomas Åberg’s organ works:
Toccatas No. 5 & No. 12 – The composer playing
This is an old recording made in 1992 never released on YouTube before.
Toccata No. 5 (1983)
Toccata No. 12 (1990)
Organist: Thomas Åberg
Organ/Venue: Allen (Heliga Korsets Kapell, Skogskyrkogården, Stockholm).
Sound recording: Per Frendahl
Sheet music published by Noteria Norbergs Musikförlag.
Organ Recital: CARSON COOMAN in National City Christian Church, Washington D.C. (Video)
October 17, 2025, at 12:15 pm
Absolutely lovely concert! Thank you so much dear Carson Cooman and Mike McMahon !!! Playlist: Toccata No. 5 by Thomas Åberg; October by Evelyn Stell; Pavane & Galliard by Malou F. Rogers; Some Simple Sonatas by Judith Weir and Sonata VI by Burkhard Mohr.
Organist: CARSON COOMAN
Host: Mike McMahon
You can download the printed program from the YouTube-file.
Listen to CARSON COOMAN playing Toccata IV in Engelbrektskyrkan, Stockholm
Recorded at the rehearsal before his concert July 24 ,2025
Toccata No 4 ”Hommage à Stig Gustav Schönberg” (1983) by Thomas Åberg
Organist: CARSON COOMAN
Sheet music published by Noteria-Norbergs Musikförlag
Carson’s text about the piece:
“Toccata No. 4 (1983) was composed in tribute to the Swedish composer and organist Stig Gustav Schönberg who had been Åberg’s composition teacher from 1981–83. Near the end of that period, Åberg was asked to compose something for a 50th birthday concert in Schönberg’s honor held in Vaxholms kyrka. The pieces in Åberg’s extensive toccata cycle vary in character, and this work is one of several Swedish-style “stylus phantasticus” toccatas where a free alternation of contrasting sections all develop related musical material in both an expressive and virtuosic manner. The three-note theme of the toccata is introduced at the outset (C-F-G). This is developed throughout both rhythmically and with different harmonic contexts, often with modal shifts and juxtapositions.”
Teaser for the concert
Link to YouTube
New Hope for soprano saxophone & 2 pianists – Live recording on YouTube
Engelbrektskyrkan, Stockholm June 2022
New Hope from New Hope Suite by Thomas Åberg
Lars Kristoffersson (saxophone), Karin Hellman-Geworkian & Thomas Åberg (piano)
Sheet music published by Svensk Musik – Swedish Music Information Centre
ZOOM-conversation with CARSON COOMAN (video on YouTube)
Recorded August 2023
Vocalise version of Toccata No. 20 ”Distant landscapes” (Synth-demo) – Sheet music FREE DOWNLOAD!
For Choir and Piano
Thomas Åberg about his new version:
Some time ago American concert organist JAY ZOLLER wrote to me about my organ piece Toccata No. 20 – Distant Landscapes:
”I have given much thought to the subtitle “Distant Landscapes”. Many people in Maine where I live think of the ocean when they hear this term – the vast distances stretching off as far as you can see. The interesting thing for me is that, having grown up on the prairie in Wyoming, I see in my mind the great distances with its undulating surfaces; I can hear the birds calling from the grasses and even see the antelope grazing a couple miles off across the landscape. There are a multitude of things happening out there which you hear in the music, but cannot see, even the warning rattle of a nearby rattlesnake!”
Jay Zoller
Thomas Åberg:
This statement became the starting point to me to write this vocalise version of my toccata with JAY ZOLLER’s impressions woven in as fragments.
Listen to synth.demo on SoundCloud
Download sheet music for free (PDF):
Publisher
Also available to order as printed copies from: Svensk Musik
The Diapason
In June 2023 I found out that Jay Zoller’s letter to me also was published as a review in the organist magazine The Diapason, December 2020, Page 21.
Original version for solo organ
Version for solo piano
Kära jul, så kom du hit! (Christmas song in Swedish) Text: Wivianne Wigren – FREE DOWNLOAD
Julsång med piano eller orgel
Musik: Thomas Åberg
Text: Wivianne Wigren
Noter FREE DOWNLOAD
Tryckta noter kan beställas hos SVENSK MUSIK – Swedish Music Information Centre.
Denna melodi av Thomas Åberg är komponerad 1992 finns även publicerad av Noteria-Norbergs Musikförlag med text av Gunnar Hjorth (Klockklang) och Marianne Bokblad (Vinternatt på jorden). Tack Noteria för fint samarbete med denna tredje version ”Kära jul, så kom du hit!” som publiceras av SVENSK MUSIK!
Wivianne Wigren är också novellist och barnboksförfattare. Läs om hennes bok Bruno och Ottos draksaga hos Bokus
Thomas Åberg: Weisflog’s Dog (2014) Music for St. Francis Day
”WEISFLOG’S DOG” or ”The Bureau for Insulted and Mistreated Animals in Chicago”.
Music for St. Francis Day by Swedish composer Thomas Åberg: Weisflog’s Dog (short radio version – 28 min.). Sheet music available through Svensk Musik – Swedish Music Information Centre or contact the composer.
RODNEY HIRAM, storyteller
Watch video with full time concert version in Swedish (with subtitles in English):
OLA CITRON, storyteller
Link to YouTube and read the story behind the piece
Published by SVENSK MUSIK – Swedish Music Information Centre