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This is the latest in the seemingly inexhaustible Divine Art series of recordings of the organ music of Carson Cooman. The earlier volumes all featured Eric Simmons playing a series of ‘virtual’ organs reconstructed via the digital Hauptwerk system. I reviewed Volume 5 back in 2017 and Volumes 7 and 13 in Spring 2020/2.

Convincing as those virtual organs sound, for Volume 14 Divine Art have recorded a real organ, that of the Pauluskirche Ulm, played by its organist and cantor, with some of the music specifically composed for the town, the instrument or the performer. The new recording brings us up to works composed as recently as 2019. As before, a contemplative, often ethereal, mood dominates, no bad thing in these Covid-infested times; the music is enjoyable rather than very distinctive. If you enjoyed some or all of the earlier volumes, you will not be disappointed; otherwise, new listeners start here.