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Recommend Your Top 5 Pipe Organ LPs

Someone asked a few nights ago, and I realized my few pipe organ recordings are all on CD. I don't have any specific musical requests, and I'm fairly amenable to most eras and genres of music. My requests are:

-LPs, not CDs;

-of excellent musical quality and a superlative performance first and foremost;

-preferably better than average to astonishing sonically. I'd prefer to avoid "audiophile labels" as they generally leave me underwhelmed (so please avoid MFSL, half-speed this and that, Super-Discs, blah, blah blah -- the originals are generally significantly better anyway);

-I have nothing against mono and often, older is better.

Thanks!

-Richard
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Richard, notwithstanding your request to avoid audiophile labels most organ recordings on the Proprius and Opus 3 labels are exceedingly good for music, performances and sonics. The Wilson Audio series of organ recordings are superb, particularly those of the various Flentrop organs. If you see any of these, get them.

Both the Vista label (from England) and the Gothic label (U.S.) released very good organ recordings on vinyl that were consistently well recorded.

And, of course, there are the several marvelous recordings made by Mercury Records.

Here are some highlights from my collection:

"Discovery" - Wilson Audio W 8419
"Magnum Opus, Vol 1" - Wilson Audio W 8111
"Recital" - Wilson Audio W 278
"Music of Jehan Alain" - played by Marie Clair Alain, Erato EPR 15555
"Marcel Dupre Organ Recital" - Marcel Dupre, Mercury SR 90169
"Durufle" - Toren/Hedvig Eleonora Church, Proprius PROP 7854
"Franck Chorales" - Dupre, Mercury SRI 75006
"Franck Chorales" - Isoir/Cavaille-Coll/Cathedral de Lucon, Calliope CAL 1921
"Music of Dupre" - Scott/St Paul's Cathedral, Hyperion A66205
"Ligeti's Volumina and other 20thC works" - Caprice CAP 1108
"Messiaen's Les Corps Glorieux" - Preston -org, Abbey Church of St Albans, Argo ZRG 633 or Thiry on Calliope CAL 1925/26
"Two Old Organs - music of Olsson, Daquin, Mozart, Rheinberger" - Opus 3 8007
"Vierne - Organ Symphonies" - Toren/Hedvig Eleonora Church, Opus 3 8203-8207
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