3rd February 2013 : Bach pipe organ music on Soundclound

Johann Sebastian Bach Complete works for the Pipe Organ. Recorded in Surround Sound on 8 historic Silbermann Organs. This is a limited edition recording. "This boxed set recording consists of 19 Super Audio SACDs, which will play on any CD-player. It is accompanied by a 251-page book. It contains music notes written by the German musicologist Peter Wollny and Silbermann Organ expert Marc Schaefer. All of the organ’s stoplists are included as well as numerous excellent color photographs. The notes are in French, German and English."

Stephen Tharp plays Bach Goldberg Variation played on a pipe organ
"The fourth and final volume of Johann Sebastian Bach’s Clavierübung keyboard cycle, his Goldberg Variations are considered the most important work in this form from the Baroque era. 30 variations over a ground-bass, originally composed for harpsichord, are adapted here for solo organ by Stephen Tharp. Widely-respected for his interpretations of Romantic and 20th century repertoire, Stephen Tharp performs here with a stylistic sensitivity to the music at hand. While utilizing the full color palette of Paul Fritts’ magnum opus at St. Joseph’s Cathedral in Columbus, Ohio, this arrangement, while imaginative and virtuosic, remains faithful to the period aesthetic in which the music was originally conceived."