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Organ Recital: CARSON COOMAN in Sct. Nicolai Kirke, Svendborg, Denmark
Svendborg International Organ Festival
July 31, 2025, 8 pm
Works by: Carlotta Ferrari, Howard Skempton, Dan Ehlert Nielsen, Aulis Sallinen, Judith Weir, Tore Bjørn Larsen and Thomas Åberg (Toccata No. 3).
Organist: CARSON COOMAN
Organ Recital: CARSON COOMAN in Sct. Mortens Kirke, Randers, Denmark
July 29, 2025, 7:30 pm
Works by: Andreja Andric, Carlotta Ferrari, Dan Ehlert Nielsen, Nancy Galbraith, Tobias Naumann, Howard Skempton, Burkhard Mohr, Karen Beaumont and Thomas Åberg (Toccata No. 4 ”Hommage à Stig Gustav Schönberg”).
Organist: CARSON COOMAN (USA)
Organ Recital: CARSON COOMAN in Sakskøbing Church, Denmark
July 27, 2025, 8 pm
Works by: Karen Beaumont, Howard Skempton, Dan Ehlert Nielsen, Flemming Chr. Hansen, Judith Weir, Villemo Daneling, Burkhard Mohr, Aulis Sallinen and Thomas Åberg (Toccata No. 4 ”Hommage à Stig Gustav Schönberg”).
Organist: CARSON COOMAN (USA)
Write-up: Fanfare Magazine (USA)
Write-up on CARSON COOMAN’S CD ”Legends in the Garden” – Organ Music by Thomas Åberg
“I am no lover of organ music. Not at all. Yet if anything might convince me to spend some more time with the King of Instruments, this disc would be it.”
Colin Clarke, Fanfare Magazine
Soundspells Productions (Catalogue #CD137)
New Hope for Soprano Saxophone & 2 pianists (YouTube)
Engelbrektskyrkan, Stockholm
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
YouTube updated: Festival Voluntary (1994) – The Composer playing
Engelbrektskyrkan, Stockholm
Sheet music published by SVENSK MUSIK – Swedish Music Information Centre
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
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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