What are the treasures in your vinyl library?

E. Grieg, Peer Gynt, Oivin Fjeldstad with LSO,
DECCA 2012, Silver Wide Band :-)

Well, I've acquired a few LPs since my first post in this thread.

My sister (she's in her 70's) was cleaning out her shelves and sent me some LPs. There, nestled in the box among the movie soundtracks and swing band collections was the 1965 Mercury Living Presence edition of Janos Starker playing the Bach Cello Suites. Yee hah!

I grew up listening to this version, and it's spoiled me for all others. Unfortunately, the one I grew up listening to got destroyed when my brother's garage and part of his house burnt about a year ago. The stereo versions of this still fetch something north of $1K on eBay. Mine is the mono version, but even those go for amazing money. Besides, with solo cello you aren't losing a whole lot going from stereo to mono.

Anyway, that's got to be at the head of my new short list.

My copies of 1st pressings of Led Zeppelin's I-IV and Pink Floyds DSOTM.

I guess "maximum 5" means different things to different people, but here's mine.

MFSL Half Speed Mastered
Al Stewart - Year of the Cat
Supertramp - Crime of the Century

Cisco
Steely Dan - Aja
Jennifer Warnes - Famous Blue Raincoat

WB/Rhino
Van Morrison - Moondance

The first few things that come to mind out of so many:

Prestige 1010, Blind Lemon Jefferson's Penitentiary Blues

Szigeti Bach Sonatas and Partitas (first or early pressing).

Milstein Bach Sonatas and Partitas (stereo version)

Rob Wasserman Duets (german pressing).

Heifetz Bruch & Wieniewsky No 2's (mono dog).

Oscar Peterson Jazz Portrait of Frank Sinatra.

Bill Evans Waltz For Debby (Analogue Prod)

Louis Armstrong Plays W.C. Handy (first).

The first 5-6 Dylan albums (some COL reissues, some Sundazed).

The first 5-6 Joan Baez albums (mostly firsts)

Roland Kirk Bright Moments

A few "talking letters" on instant recording discs sent home by U.S. soldiers.