Bach's Toccata

If you can find it, another Direct-to-Disk recording, with spectacular sonics, is "The Power and the Glory, Volume I," with Lloyd Holzgraf on the organ of the First Congregational Church of Los Angeles (M&K Realtime RT-114, from 1978).

I can't comment on the performance, though, because I only played the recording once, about 25 years ago. Played at a modest level, the deep bass that was present set the windows in the room into severe vibration, and caused paint chips to fall from the ceiling. :-)

No other recording has ever done that in my experience, not even the Telarc 1812 Overture.

Regards,
-- Al

03-30-11: Rcprince
There is reputedly (I'll have to check my copy) a 64 foot stop (8 Hz), possibly a resultant stop, on the organ that was recorded on The Power and The Glory that might be on the record.

Some excerpts from the jacket:

Some of the reasons for the remarkable sound are: 11,848 pipes under the guiding hands of a great master; three simultaneous organs with 198 feet separating the two giant organs played antiphonally and blended; a neo-classical stone cathedral of enormous size with superb acoustics, real 32-foot ranks.... In addition to having so accurately captured the fundamental frequencies of the 32 foot ranks, we have also accurately captured the natural beat frequencies generated by these huge pipes with an energy content which lies well below 16Hz.

Isochronism -- LOL!

Regards,
-- Al