![]() ![]() Bartók: Divertimento For String Orchestra/Barshai.Bartók: Concerto For Orchestra/Reiner.Barber: Violin Concerto/Ricci, Pacific Symphony.Barber: Overture to The School for Scandal/Schippers.Barber: Knoxville Summer of 1915/Price, Schippers.Baird: Four Dialogues for Oboe and Chamber Orchestra/Rowicki.Bacewicz: Music for Strings, Trumpets, and Percussion/Rowicki.Bach-Stokowski: Symphonic Transcriptions.Bach-Elgar: Fantasia and Fugue in C Minor.Bach: Sonatas and Partitas for Solo Violin/Grumiaux.Mercury/Analogue Productions AAPC 39016-P (45rpm) † *‡ Babbitt: All Set/Contemporary Chamber Ensemble.Arnold: Peterloo Overture: Symphony No.Anderson: Music of Leroy Anderson (Vol. ![]() Albeniz: Suite Española/De Burgos, New Philharmonia.Decca/RCA/Analogue Productions AAPC 6094‡ Albeniz: Iberia (complete)/PCO, Morel.Wilson Audiophile/Analogue Productions 8823‡ The Weavers Reunion at Carnegie Hall, 1963.Reprise/Analogue Productions 076-45 (45rpm)*‡ Ralph Hunter Choir: The Wild, Wild West.RCA/Analogue Productions LSP/AAPF-6006 (45rpm) *‡ Belafonte At Carnegie Hall: The Complete Concert.Mahler: Ninth Symphony/Barbirolli, Berlin Phil.Herold-Lanchbery: La Fille Mal Gardée.Gershwin: Porgy & Bess complete/Maazel.Berlin Philharmonic Recordings BPHR 160041*‡ Brahms: Symphonien 1–4/Rattle, Berlin Phil.Wilson Audiophile/Analogue Productions 8722*‡ Brahms/Debussy/Bartók: Sonatas/Abel, Steinberg.Arnold: English, Scottish, & Cornish Dances.This probably goes without saying, but be aware that a few of the most recent pop entries contain “adult” lyrics. LPs with particularly natural, as opposed to hi-fi spectacular sound have been awarded an asterisk ( *). In keeping with Harry’s practice, each entry new to this latest version of the list is bolded and marked with a red dagger symbol ( †), and those recordings that are still available new or re-issued are marked with a double dagger ( ‡). It also contains hundreds of titles that JV and the TAS staff have deemed worthy of adding. While it may not ignite the frenzy that it once did, TAS’ new Super LP List contains every LP that HP recommended when the list was last published by him. It is our aim here to preserve and expand upon what Harry created. Who didn’t lust for that 1s/1s Pines of Rome? Who wouldn’t have sold his soul for-or cheated a widow and an orphan out of-that black-label Weavers Reunion at Carnegie Hall? Almost single-handedly HP created a market so important, voracious, and enduring that, even now, used-record dealers demand a premium for mint copies of his favorites, while select titles from his Super LP List continue to be re-issued by companies the world over. With HP’s recommendations in hand we pawed at musty cardboard boxes and peach bins full of vinyl, rifling through stack after stack of fifty-cent LPs stinking of mildew and cat piss in search of the titles Harry deemed worthiest. Why? Because whether you were rich or poor, active in the high-end audio market or just kicking tires, it was the one issue of TAS you could make daily practical use of-it was your road map to the absolute sound.īack in the day, hundreds of guys like me carried that list with them to record stores, garage sales, estate sales, library sales, rummage sales, the basements of unsuspecting neighbors. The issue in which it was published was the one that everyone had to buy, borrow, or copy. Of the many articles and reviews that Harry Pearson wrote for The Absolute Sound, his annual Super LP List (aka SuperDisc List) may have been the most eagerly anticipated.
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