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Choir & Organ

With ten first recordings of works by nine composers from six countries, Carson Cooman’s Companions is a remarkably coherent recital, the resulting kaleidoscope reflecting back on the organist-composer’s own eclecticism and accent on direct communication.

Bernard J.D. Heyes’s expressive Organ Symphony No. 15 forcefully illustrates that, as do Thomas Åberg’s characterful Three Short Fantasy Pieces, and Cooman’s own Recitative, a miniature making much of the Gaida organ’s substantial Flauto mirabilis  stop.  Carol Williams’s Scriabin-quoting Prismatic, Tate Pumphrey’s Eucharist-influenced Sursum Corda and Carlotta Ferrari’s tolling  The Grave Of Keats provide contrast aplenty in a satisfying, well-recorded disc with good booklet notes by Cooman.