What are the best organ pieces with a lot of bass?

It's too bad that E. Power Biggs's Bach recordings are mostly out of print. The situation torrent-wise is no better - this is classical music we're talking about. Biggs recorded all the same "Great" Preludes and Fugues as other players, but he ha... read more

Anyway, you asked for examples of"awesome" organ bass, and so I'll recommend listening to a couple compositions in the French Romantic style. For starters, Henri Mulet's"Byzantine Sketches" are all full of rich bass; the best-known is the toccata"Tu Es Petra", usually registered with a loud and full pedal down to 32' per the composer's suggestions, accentuated at the end with the pedal bombarde (a very loud reed). read more

Poulenc’s Organ Concerto is one of the most frequently performed pieces of original organ music not written in the Baroque period. Princess Edmond de Polignac originally commissioned the piece to be written as an easy organ piece for her to be able to play herself with a chamber orchestra accompaniment - however, Poulenc quickly dismissed this idea for something a lot more complicated and ambitious. read more

My understanding is that when cutting a record, because of the practical problems that large amounts of low bass caused, it's pretty standard to apply a high-pass filter (possibly around 40 Hz). Lots of low bass can cause a record to skip, and it can take up a lot of physical space (requiring the spacing between the grooves to be wider). read more