THE LP STORE
We've brought together on this page a whole collection of LPs that can be found at The Audiophile Store. Click on Click to Buy to add an LP to your shopping cart. Note that many of these LPs have been pressed in limited quantities. We can guarantee neither the supply nor the price once our initial stock is gone.
PROPRIUS
Cantate Domino
This choral record has become a classic of audiophile records. The title selection is stunningly beautiful. The second half is Christmas music, and includes the most stunning version of O Holy Night we've everh heard.
LP: PROP7762 $44.95 Click to buy
Now the Green Blade Riseth
Religious music done in a new way: organ, chorus and modern orchestra. This is stunning music, arranged and performed by masters, and the emotional effect is joyous. The sound is clear, and the sheer depth is unequalled. A triumph!
LP: PROP9093 $44.95 Click to buy
Jazz at the Pawnshop
An album of live jazz, with nearly perfect sound. It has been famous among audiophiles for years. There's something special about a live jazz album, and this purist recording helped launch the age of the audiophile record.
DOUBLE LP: 7778-79 $55.95 Click to buy
OPUS 3
Autumn Shuffle
Guitarist Peder af Ugglas wanders among blues and rock in this vinyl LP. Always beguiling, sometimes downright enthralling.
LP: LP22042 $29.95 Click to buy
Showcase
A sampler of recent Opus 3 recordings, many of them from analog originals. Includes Eric Bibb, Lars Erstrand. the Swedish Jazz Kings, many more.
LP: LP20000 $29.95 Click to buy
Lars Erstrand & Four Brothers
Erstrand's followup album, also excellent.
LP: 8402 $24 Click to buy
Test Record 3
This was the third of this famous Swedish label’s demo records. We have just two left, but with only inner sleeves (but, between us, Opus 3 was better at recording than at cover art).
LP: $19.95 Click to buy
Gunnar Lidberg
Jazz violinist Lidberg is accompanied by four other jazzmen, including vibraphonist Erstrand, in this fine recording of recognizable standards. Fine sound.
LP: 7904 $24 Click to buy
KLAVIER
Offenbach Overtures
The City of Birmingham Symphony has, surprisingly, all the frothiness you need for these raucous and joyous overtures to La Belle Hélène,, La Vie Parisienne, etc.
LP: KS-517 $24 Click to buy
Percy Grainger Plays Schumann and Liszt
This and the next two LPs are made from reproducing pianos: something like a player piano, but storing not just keystrokes, but dynamics and pedal actions. These modified grand pianos were installed in a studio, and recorded in modern stereo.
Grainger was himself a famous composer, but here we hear him playing with a light touch and astonishing subtlety. This disc is at once interesting and pleasing to the ear. Get it!
LP: KS-109 $18.00 Click to buy
Josef Lhevinne Plays Concert I
Despite his reputation, Lhevinne plays Chopin, Beethoven, Liszt and Schumann in a style that doesn't cut it today. It's an important historical document, though.
LP: KS-104 $12.00 Click to buy
Ignaz Friedman: Concert II
The Invitation to the Dance, La Campanella and several of Friedman's own works...played with a leaden hand. Historical document.
LP: KS-115 $12.00 Click to buy
AMERICAN GRAMAPHONE
Christmas
Mannheim Steamroller is a sort of Baroque'n'Roll group, mixing old musical styles with synth rock, always with flawless musical taste and judgement. It works, and how! You'll play this one a lot of times. This is one of the best Christmas recordings ever made.
LP: LPAG1984 $18.00 Click to buy
Windsock
Some of the best New Age orchestral music on an audiophile label, this suite was written and arranged by Rick Swanson.
LP: AG687 $12.00 Click to buy
Urban Surrender
Ric Swanson again, with a fascinating suite for orchestra, and sometimes choral voices.
LP: AG600 $12.00 Click to buy
Through the Lens
The Checkfield group (John Archer and Ron Satterfield) in a classic New Age mix of acoustic and synth music.
LP: AG788 $12.00 Click to buy
Ballade
Pianist Jackson Berkey plays Debussy, Rachmaninoff and Satie on a Baldwin SD-10 grand.
LP: AG371 $12.00 Click to buy
Saving the Wildlife
This is another of those legendary albums by the rock/Baroque ensemble. Mannheim Steamroller. We wish we had a whole shelf filled with them, but this LP, like some of the wildlife, is the last of its kind. Did we mention we have only one copy?
LP: AG2086 $45.00 Click to buy
MUSIC WEST
A Touch of Kenneth Nash
The subtitle is "Music from a faraway place." For synths, guitar, bass, voice and more..
LP: MWLP121 $12.00 Click to buy
The Avenue
Guitarist Kimbal Dykes, playing several instruments as well, provides a very personal version of music of Bach, Rodrigo, and others. Just one left of this one!
LP: MWLP140 $12.00 Click to buy
OTHER LABELS
Carole Farley Sings Richard Strauss
Soprano Carol Farley. accompanied by an orchestra conducted by the celebrated José Serebrier, sings the closing scenes from Capriccio, op.85 and Daphne, op.82. A superb recording from Chandos.
LP: ABRD1127 $24.00 Click to buy