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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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palasr OP
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Thanks folks! BTW, I have nothing against a label like Opus 3, since they have a vast catalog of original releases.

We were in Passau, Germany last summer and had the privilege of hearing an organ performance at St. Stephen's cathedral. This being the largest pipe organ outside the US, it was quite a treat, particularly given the baroque setting and the charming town of Passau. A fine evening's worth of music.

-Richard
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