David Goode (organ) - J.S. Bach: 1714 Silbermann Organ of Freiberg Cathedral on CD

Description

David Goode performs a grand selection of some of Bach´s best organ works - including the famed Passacaglia and Fugue in C minor - providing modern listeners with a unique chance to hear Bach´s music as congregations of that period may have done. The Gottfried Silbermann organ of Freiberg cathedral is one of a handful of such 18th-century instruments (built during Bach´s lifetime) to have remained largely unmodified to this day. Bach´s work as an organ inspector shows that he tested and inaugurated a number of Silbermann´s organs in Germany and, although there is no record that he played this instrument, its sound is undoubtedly one that Bach would have recognised and composed for.