This recording was produced in live performance using the Hauptwerk system, which utilizes a virtual model of the organ.
Performer Biography
Erik Simmons, the organist, has recorded several CDs of music, including multiple albums of Carson Cooman's music on the Divine Art label.
Composer Biography
Cooman's music has been performed on all six inhabited continents, in venues from Carnegie Hall to a hot air balloon basket.
Instruments
The organ used for this recording is a virtual model of the 1882-85 Aristide Cavaillé-Coll organ from the Abbey of Saint-Étienne, Caen, France.
Instruments
The original Cavaillé-Coll organ in the Abbey of Saint-Étienne, Caen, remains an unaltered example of the builder's late work.
Composer's Artistic Vision
Several pieces on this album are inspired by the life of St. Francis of Assisi, drawing from stories in the Fioretti di San Francesco (Little Flowers of St. Francis).
Composer Biography
Carson Cooman, an American composer born in 1982, has a catalog of hundreds of works ranging from solo instrumental pieces to operas and orchestral works.
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