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New on Qobuz. 24/48. Apparently this was music to celebrate the successful operation on Louis XIV’s anal fistula!. I kid you not. For technical reasons which were mundane but difficult to explain I listened to this album in a very fragmented way. Bits of it seemed very good. others less so. Sound surprisingly good for what appears to have been a live performance. Difficult for me to form any coherent opinion about the album.
Edited to correct the Louis regnal number. Spotted by the sharp eyes and acute historical sense of @joe-appierto
Supposedly anal fistulas were all the rage back then… and nothing could separate the culture I am used to with that culture more than that sentence. I will definitely have to listen to the Fistula Suite though.
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Such a fantastic work, indeed!
But IMHO there are so many recordings more thrilling than this Blomstedt SFSO
Listening to it just now…‘sounds like a load of sh!te’… 
This Schnitger organ in Zwolle includes many 16’ pipes, and even 32’ (reeds) in pedal.
But for this Renaissance repertoire (Farnaby, Byrd, Gibbons…), such low stops would be inauthentic.
I would advise you this disc, on two idiomatic and historical french (Brittany) instruments. The CD is hard to find, but 200% worth it:
That made me laugh out loud, Dirk
It sounds as if Corelli wanted to tear us a new one 
This music let’s one ripped out.
That sounds like a critical analysis heavily biased for comic effect rather than accuracy. Well done, Dirk, you are a man after my own heart!