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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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Something similar but different.
A four LP set under the heading The Golden Age of the Organ
performed by E. Power Biggs on twelve surviving organs by the master builder ARP SCHNITGER (1648-1719). Playing eight Bach preludes and fugues, Concerto in D minor after Vivaldi, Selections from the Anna Magdalena Book, Dorian Toccata and Fugue in D minor, Fanfare Fugue in C Major and works by walther and Pepping.
All the organs are intact or recreations of the originals and are tuned to the way Bach would have heard them. It gives a very different sound than one is used to.
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