Classical music with bass

[steve_1979]

The only piece of classical music that I listen to at home that gets my subwoofer flapping is this:

Johann Sebastian Bach – Toccata & Fugue D Minor, BWV. 565

Could anyone give me an example of another piece of classical music that has room shaking bass like pop music does?

 

[lindsayt]

1812 - with canons.

 

[steve_1979]

Ohhh yes of course. I forgot about those cannons.

I love the 1812 overture it's an incredible piece of music.

 

[CnoEvil]

"Gnomus" from Jean Guillou's organ transcript of Mussorgskys "Pictures at an exhibition" (Dorian DOR-90117)

Cesar Franks "Piece Heroique" from Marcel Dupre's recital CD (Mercury Living Presence 434 311-2)

There is nothing like organ music to get your sub flapping, and your cabinets rattling. If I come up with something else, I'll shout.

 

[steve_1979]

Apart from organ music is there any other classical music that has loads of bass?

 

[steve_1979]

Yep those low notes on an organ are something else. I've never heard any speaker that can reproduce the power that an organ has when listened to live.

The Boardwalk Hall Auditorium Organ is the largest pipe organ ever constructed in the world. The Diaphone-Dulzians low C pipe stands 64 feet 9 inches (19.7 m) tall, weighs 3,350 pounds (1,675 kg), and produces a frequency of 8 Hz. The Midmer-Losh organ has around 33,000 pipes and requires around 600 horsepower (450 kW) of blowers to operate. :O

That makes my little 10" subwoofer seem a tad underpowered by comparison.

 

[Big Chris]

Not classical, but the Inception OST is orchestral and has some quality bass.

 

[6th.replicant]

All of the above, plus:

Edvard Grieg, Peer Gynt, Op. 46, In the Hall of the Mountain King

Beethoven's 5th

Holst - The Planets, especially Mars and Jupiter

Mozart's Requiem, especially this version

Philip Glass, Glassworks - Floe and Rubric

Richard Strauss - Also Sprach Zarathustra

Carl Orff - Carmina Burana

 

[Jambalaya]

Oscar's Motet Choir, Cantata Domino is a phenomenal album.