I think the pipe organ is perhaps the greatest instrument ever created by man. The sheer impracticality of the thing begets a certain beauty. The best pieces, especially performed with a certain style, take my mind places. However, the scarcity of such instruments and the gulf between our own time and the organ's golden age makes organ music a rarity in our era. The genius of organ music creation seems to have broadly perished four hundred or so years ago and so much of the attainable pieces today are interpretations of older music. The solution space for an interpretation is beautifully broad on the organ, but that means one can't just love a specific piece like BWV 578 – I'll fall in love with a specific player's rendition of a piece. Often that player is obscure; for example, a nineteen-year-old student playing an organ in an old Baltic church forgotten by Soviet atheism. The resulting audio is published in a similarly obscure way as a YouTube video rather than on an album.
So, here I attempt to keep track of my favorite pieces and renditions. Spotify has failed me; perhaps the old ways are best.