Announcing Music for Organ by Polish composer Marian Sawa, performed by Carson Cooman

Posted by Divine Art Recordings Group on

22 February, 2021

Hot on the heels of the latest album of organ music by Carson Cooman (DDA 25218, “Antiphonies”) played by Erik Simmons, Divine Art returns to Cooman the performer for a new disc of music by Polish composer Marian Sawa.

Carson Cooman is only 38 but has become one of the most important figures in American musical life, as a composer of over 1300 works, an active concert organist, writer, reviewer and an active consultant to musicians in many areas of business including estate management and publishing. This new album will be his fifth for Divine Art as performer of works by another composer. The organ used is the remarkable 2014 Fleiter of St. Ludgerus in Billerbeck Germany, recorded via the Hauptwerk system.

Marian Sawa (1937-2005) has become very well known in his native Poland, but his name and work has not yet been discovered by the international community although an album of his violin music was issued by Naxos a few years ago. His music is now being promoted by the Marian Sawa Society (Towarzystwo im. Mariana Sawy) to which Carson Cooman is a consultant. His organ works are powerful, distinctively modern yet essentially tonal and can compete with any of the major organ works of the 20^th century. Stephen Sutton, CEO of Divine Art, remarked to Cooman on first hearing this album, that in his view this music is magnificent, and deserves to give Sawa a far greater reputation than he currently enjoys outside Poland.

Recorded between December 2020 and February 2021, this new recording will be released on CD and in all digital /streaming formats in July.