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Divine Art

Sawa: Music for Organ / Cooman

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Details

Composer
SAWA, MARIAN
Artist
Carson Cooman
Format
CD
Label
Divine Art
Released
Jul 09, 2021
Catalog #
DDA25219
UPC
809730521928

About

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.

Tracklist 13 tracks

  1. 1 Sequence I, "Dies irae" 11:44
    Track
    1
    Title
    Sequence I, "Dies irae"
    Duration
    11:44
    Composer
    Marian Sawa
    Performer
    Carson Cooman
  2. 2 Resurrection 06:53
    Track
    2
    Title
    Resurrection
    Duration
    06:53
    Composer
    Marian Sawa
    Performer
    Carson Cooman
  3. 3 Aria 07:17
    Track
    3
    Title
    Aria
    Duration
    07:17
    Composer
    Marian Sawa
    Performer
    Carson Cooman
  4. 4 Passacaglia II 09:51
    Track
    4
    Title
    Passacaglia II
    Duration
    09:51
    Composer
    Marian Sawa
    Performer
    Carson Cooman
  5. 5 Three Dances in Old Style 05:39
    Track
    5
    Title
    Three Dances in Old Style
    Duration
    05:39
    Composer
    Marian Sawa
    Performer
    Carson Cooman
  6. 6 I. Adagio 04:38
    Track
    6
    Title
    I. Adagio
    Duration
    04:38
    Composer
    Marian Sawa
    Performer
    Carson Cooman
  7. 7 II. Scherzando 02:20
    Track
    7
    Title
    II. Scherzando
    Duration
    02:20
    Composer
    Marian Sawa
    Performer
    Carson Cooman
  8. 8 III. Tranquillo 04:46
    Track
    8
    Title
    III. Tranquillo
    Duration
    04:46
    Composer
    Marian Sawa
    Performer
    Carson Cooman
  9. 9 IV. Con brio 02:04
    Track
    9
    Title
    IV. Con brio
    Duration
    02:04
    Composer
    Marian Sawa
    Performer
    Carson Cooman
  10. 10 V. Presto 01:52
    Track
    10
    Title
    V. Presto
    Duration
    01:52
    Composer
    Marian Sawa
    Performer
    Carson Cooman
  11. 11 Fantazja Jasnogórska 06:26
    Track
    11
    Title
    Fantazja Jasnogórska
    Duration
    06:26
    Composer
    Marian Sawa
    Performer
    Carson Cooman
  12. 12 Łomza Prayer 05:39
    Track
    12
    Title
    Łomza Prayer
    Duration
    05:39
    Composer
    Marian Sawa
    Performer
    Carson Cooman
  13. 13 Sequence II, "Victimae paschali laudes" 07:04
    Track
    13
    Title
    Sequence II, "Victimae paschali laudes"
    Duration
    07:04
    Composer
    Marian Sawa
    Performer
    Carson Cooman