In this day and age of instant this and disposable that, it is reassuring to know that some people still make an effort to preserve artefacts of historical value and grant them a new lease on life for posterity. Such is the case for this 1618 instrument in the Franciscan Holy Trinity Church in Gdansk, Poland, which was destroyed during the Second World War. -- In 2018, after 11 years of work, over 10,000 hours of research, over 36,000 hours of conservation work and over 24,000 hours of organ work, the instrument awoke, like a Phoenix from the Ashes. {Booklet notes} --

All of the music on this recording is from composers that would have been active during the early years of this organ, and includes works by Sweelinck, Frescobaldi, Froberger, Kerll, Muffat, Böhm, Buxtehude, Shade, and of course Johann Sebastian Bach. All organ pieces that bring out this instrument's Baroque identity to its fullest. Composer, conductor and organist Andrzej Mikolaj Szadejko, who is involved in many projects to reconstruct historical organs, puts all of this across by voicing the instrument accordingly, and utilizing stops that bring out the structure and counterpoint of each piece distinctly. And in the Passacaglia in D on a theme by Buxtehude in the manner of Bach by Andreas Nicolaus Shade, where he deploys the 32' pedal stop, you can tell that this instrument has plenty of power in reserve.