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
A souvenir from a concert in Lund, 2011
Stig Gustav Schönberg and Thomas. Photo by Nida.