Carson Cooman - Marian Sawa: Music for Organ '2021

Tracks list

Tracklist

01. Sequence I Dies irae
02. Resurrection
03. Aria
04. Passacaglia II
05. 3 Dances in Old Style
06. Suite: I. Adagio
07. Suite: II. Scherzando
08. Suite: III. Tranquillo
09. Suite: IV. Con brio
10. Suite: V. Presto
11. Fantazja jasnogórska
12. Łomza Prayer
13. Sequence II Victimae paschali laudes



Marian Sawa (1937-2005) began serious studies at the age of 14 at the Salesian
Organ School, Przemyšl, 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. This
recording of the exquisite Fleiter organ (2014) at St. Ludgerus, Billerbeck, was
made using the Hauptwerk remote digital access system.

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