OK, couldn't figure out where this post should go Didn't exactly shoehorn into the classical, jazz, etc sections. So being one of the t'table mods, I've taken the liberty of kicking off this section a list of some of my reference LPs that I use when reviewing equipment. This is a dynamic list and hopefully will be posting more additions on a regular schedule. (I also want to down the road, post those reissues that I think are particularly outstanding!).
I'd love for everyone here to chime in and add their favorites so that we might make a recommended LP list down the road!
Ali Akbar Khan: Master Musician of India Connoisseur Society (45 and 33 rpm versions) CS462
Ameniya: Summer Prayer RCA RVC-2154
Arnold: Symphony #1/Sarabande/Beckus Arnold/Bournemouth EMI ASD 3823 (original issue)
Bach: French Suites Thurston Dart Clavichord L’Oiseau-Lyre SOL 60039
Bach: Quodlibet Telefunken SAWT 9457-A
Beethoven: Moonlight Sonata/Pathetique Moravec Connoisseur Society CS1566
Bill Evans Trio at Shelly’s Manne-Hole Analogue Production (45 rpm) AP 9487
Britten: Peter Grimes Britten/Chorus and Orchestra, Royal Opera House, Covent Garden
Decca SXL 2150-2 (original ED1)
Britten: Young Person’s Guide to the Orchestra Britten/LSO/ECO Decca SXL 6450 (original issue)
Cassandra Wilson: New Moon Daughter Blue Note7243 8 37183 1 3
Cat Stevens: Tea for the Tillerman Island ILPS 9135
Clarinet Summit India Navigation IN 1062
Deep Purple: Live at the BBC MsMusic/Audio Fidelity MUS (2) 003
Dire Straits: Love Over Gold Vertigo 6359109
Donovan: Storyteller MsMusic/Audio Fidelity (2) 001 w/special 45 rpm
Johnny Cash: American Recordings American Recordings 5101 12792-2
June Tabor: Aqaba Topic Records 12TS 449
Mahler: Symphony #3 Solti/LSO Decca Set 385-6
Mallets, Melody and Mayhem Saul Goodman Columbia CS8333
Picaflor: Latin American Music for Guitar and Mandolin Titanic Mn-5
Ragtime Razmatazz Vol. 1 Mark Welch Wilson Records W808 (great for VTA setting)
Rashomon Carlton Records STLPX 5000
Rickie Lee Jones: it’s like this (45 rpm) Analogue Productions 51056
Power of the Orchestra Leibowitz RCA VCS 2659 (original SD issue)
Sounds Unheard of Contemporary Shelly Manne and Jack Marshall (original issue) S9006
Varese: Arcana/Integrales/Ionisation Decca SXL 6550 (original issue)
Yes: Fragile Analogue Productions 7211
Ameniya: Summer Prayer RCA RVC-2154
Arnold: Symphony #1/Sarabande/Beckus Arnold/Bournemouth EMI ASD 3823 (original issue)
Bach: French Suites Thurston Dart Clavichord L’Oiseau-Lyre SOL 60039
Bach: Quodlibet Telefunken SAWT 9457-A
Beethoven: Moonlight Sonata/Pathetique Moravec Connoisseur Society CS1566
Bill Evans Trio at Shelly’s Manne-Hole Analogue Production (45 rpm) AP 9487
Britten: Peter Grimes Britten/Chorus and Orchestra, Royal Opera House, Covent Garden
Decca SXL 2150-2 (original ED1)
Britten: Young Person’s Guide to the Orchestra Britten/LSO/ECO Decca SXL 6450 (original issue)
Cassandra Wilson: New Moon Daughter Blue Note7243 8 37183 1 3
Cat Stevens: Tea for the Tillerman Island ILPS 9135
Clarinet Summit India Navigation IN 1062
Deep Purple: Live at the BBC MsMusic/Audio Fidelity MUS (2) 003
Dire Straits: Love Over Gold Vertigo 6359109
Donovan: Storyteller MsMusic/Audio Fidelity (2) 001 w/special 45 rpm
Johnny Cash: American Recordings American Recordings 5101 12792-2
June Tabor: Aqaba Topic Records 12TS 449
Mahler: Symphony #3 Solti/LSO Decca Set 385-6
Mallets, Melody and Mayhem Saul Goodman Columbia CS8333
Picaflor: Latin American Music for Guitar and Mandolin Titanic Mn-5
Ragtime Razmatazz Vol. 1 Mark Welch Wilson Records W808 (great for VTA setting)
Rashomon Carlton Records STLPX 5000
Rickie Lee Jones: it’s like this (45 rpm) Analogue Productions 51056
Power of the Orchestra Leibowitz RCA VCS 2659 (original SD issue)
Sounds Unheard of Contemporary Shelly Manne and Jack Marshall (original issue) S9006
Varese: Arcana/Integrales/Ionisation Decca SXL 6550 (original issue)
Yes: Fragile Analogue Productions 7211
I'd love for everyone here to chime in and add their favorites so that we might make a recommended LP list down the road!