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New recording: CARSON COOMAN playing Lento (1984/91)
Recorded December 2023
Sheet music published by Noteria-Norbergs Musikförlag
”Judge Not One Another” for soprano and organ (video from Harvard Memorial Church)
Harvard Memorial Church, Harvard University
Sunday Service, July 23, 2023, 11 am
Thomas Åberg: Judge Not One Another – Romans 14:7-10, 15: 1-7.
CARSON COOMAN, Organ
OLYMPIA HATZILAMBROU, Soprano
Listen to live recording on YouTube
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Thomas to Carson before the premiere:
”I want a picture of you and Olympia – but nothing too serious. More like my motto as composer – Feel free – Have fun!”
And here it came – I just love it!!!
ZOOM-conversation with CARSON COOMAN (video on YouTube)
Recorded August 2023
Vocalise version of Toccata No. 20 ”Distant landscapes” (Synth-demo)
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)
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.
Link here: 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.
CARSON COOMAN playing Frolic for a Swedish Summer (2007)
New recording on YouTube!
Frolic for a Swedish Summer (2007) was written as a birthday present for Claes Holmgren, organist of Visby Cathedral. It is based on the traditional 18th century song “Ja, må han (hon) leva,” used as a birthday song in Sweden.
Organ Recital: HARTWIG BARTE-HANSSEN in Wilster, Germany
St. Bartholomäus-Kirche, Wilster
August 16, 2023: Works by Daneling, Barte-Hanssen and Thomas Åberg (Fantasy A-Minor and Waiting for Astor.
Read more about Hartwig-Barte Hanssen
LISA EKMARK, cello & JOHAN-MAGNUS SJÖBERG, orgel
Musikgudstjänst, Knästorps kyrka (Sweden)
Söndag 30 Juli, 2023: Verk av Johann Sebastian Bach: Saraband; Johan-Magnus Sjöberg: Två Sorgesånger (uruppförande); Thomas Åberg: ur Four Slow Pieces för violoncell och orgel (No. 1 & 2).
Lisa Ekmark, violoncell
Johan-Magnus Sjöberg, orgel
Organ Recital: PHILIP HARTMANN in Ulmer Münster (Germany)
July 9 2023: Organ Recital – PHILIP HARTMANN – Program:
Fredrik Sixten: Allegro Festivo
Carson Cooman: Praeludium in festo S. Philippi apostoli
Carson Cooman: Ceremonial Suite
Thomas Åberg: I folkton
Carson Cooman: Sonatina No. 4
John Campbell Maclagan: Bach’s Strathspey
PHILIP HARTMANN, organ
Organ Recital: The Memorial Church, Harvard University: PHILIP HARTMANN (Ulm, Germany)
June 21, 2023 – Organ Recital PHILIP HARTMANN – Program:
Praeludium in festo S. Philippi apostoli by Carson Cooman
I folkton (Swedish Folktune) by Thomas Åberg
Sonatina No. 4 by Carson Cooman
Arioso cantabile by Carson Cooman
Bach’s Strathspey by John Campbell Maclagan
Organist: PHILIP HARTMANN, Ulm Cathedral (Germany)
Organ Recital: CARSON COOMAN in Washington National Cathedral (Video)
Washington National Cathedral, Washington D.C.
May 28, 2023: Works by Günther Firlinger, Carlotta Ferrari, Yûitirô Katô, Frederick Frahm, Eva-Maria Houben, Ayọ̀ Olúrántí and Thomas Åberg (Toccata No. 4, ”Hommage à Stig Gustav Schönberg” (1983)
CARSON COOMAN, organ