The Owls - Rare Birds - COMPACT DISCS [CD]

Mikis Theodorakis - Zorba [COMPACT DISCS] date 05/27/1997

2026 , the 16the album from award-winning progressive rock band Big Big Train. 'Woodcut' is a landmark for the international group, whose line-up draws together members from England, Scotland, Italy, the USA, Sweden and Norway, in that it marks their first ever full-length conceptual piece. A more band-based effort, 'Woodcut' sees all seven members making stunning contributions, with frontman Alberto Bravin taking the lead as producer.

Carson Cooman is many things musical - organist and Composer in Residence at the Memorial Church, Harvard University; writer, critic and consultant, concert organist, and above all a highly prolific composer of music in a wide variety of genres, from orchestral to song. His organ compositions come in many styles, from liturgical models, to more gritty and substantial pieces such as his organ symphonies and preludes and fugues. The music in this programme, all composed in 2016 and 2017, is varied and consists of concert pieces (though suitable for church use) as opposed to explicitly liturgical works. Erik Simmons is a fine organist, making his seventh Cooman organ album for Divine Art. He is playing the Cavaille-Coll organ of the Abbey of Saint-Etienne, Caen, France in a live performance recorded through the Hauptwerk system. This is volume 7 of this highly praised series.