Orgelmatiné Med Stefan Therstam by Karg-Elert, Therstam, Aπό (2024/2024), Konserthuset (Stockholm Concert Hall), Stockholm, Sweden

Through the Concert Hall's popular series of organ matinees, the audience gets to hear prominent organists play on the house's own organ, which with its 6,100 pipes is one of the largest in Europe. Since 1999, Stefan Therstam has been organist at Engelbrektskyrkan in Stockholm. He is also an award-winning improviser and professor at the Royal Academy of Music in Stockholm, where he teaches both liturgical organ playing and improvisation. In Sigfrid Karg-Elert's (1877–1933) Passcaglia and Fugue after a model by Bach, he shows at this organ matinee the enormous power of the huge concert hall organ. We also get a taste of Stefan Therstam's outstanding ability to improvise over given themes