Johann Sebastian Bach, Wendy Carlos - Switched-On Bach
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Artist: Johann Sebastian Bach, Wendy CarlosEdition: Music CD
Format: Enhanced, Original recording remastered
CD Release Date: 2001-10-02
Music Label: East Side Digital
Soundtracks:
- Sinfonia to Cantata #29
- Air on a G String
- Two-Part Invention in F Major
- Two-Part Invention in B-Flat Major
- Two-Part Invention in D Minor
- Jesu, Joy of Man's Desiring
- Prelude and Fugue #7 in E-Flat Major [From Book I of the Well-Tempered
- Prelude and Fugee #2 in C Minor [From Book I of the Well-Tempered ...]
- Chorale Prelude "Wachet Auf"
- Brandenburg Concerto No. 3 in G Major: I- Allegro
- Brandenburg Concerto No. 3 in G Major: II-Adagio [First 1968 Version]
- Brandenburg Concerto No. 3 in G Major: III-Allegro
- Initial Experiments
Music reviews of Switched-On Bach
Music Review: I remember this from an LP in Elementary Sch. Still fantastic!!
Rating: 5 Stars
The scene is an Elementary School music classroom circa 1972. The teacher is telling the students about a new musical instrument called the Moog Synthesizer. It can make sounds and noises that could not be created before. One of the pioneers of this sound and instrument was Wendy Carlos, although I have to admit, I pictured the Bach guy on the cover behind the synth keyboard. The teacher then put the needle down on the LP and it took the students to a whole new level of music appreciation.
I'm not a musician or in a music related field of work. But this recording did for me exactly what my music teacher wanted it to. It grabbed my attention with the new strange sounds of the Moog while instilling some of the great classical music in my little mind.
Almost four decades later I happened upon this CD on Amazon. Would it still be good? Would it sound childish and immature like I was back then. Or would it be the mind opening sound I remembered?
Obviously, since I gave it five stars, it was the latter. The second I hit play and heard the first few bars, I was not only transported back to wonderful memories, but also opened to a new awareness that this music, in varied forms, had become part of my life. I recognized one song from a Disneyland Parade of Lights, another from a movie or commercial. It was a very cool RE-experience.
This recording has stood the test of time in my life and I have a feeling that I am not the only one who would experience this pleasant flashback. At first I switched off the last track which is Carlos explaining some of the processes and procedures she went through while finding just the right sounds for this album. After reveling in the music for a bit, I actually listened to the track and gained another increment of respect for this pioneer of music.
I highly recommend this disc not only as a piece of musical history and appreciation but as a collection of wonderful music!
Description of Switched-On Bach
Wendy Carlos's Switched-On Bach is one of those rare novelty recordings that never gets boring. In the capable hands of Carlos, Bach's keyboard masterpieces sound like they were made for the otherworldly blurps, farts, and chimes of a Moog synthesizer. And, in a sense, they were. Bach's inventive music doesn't lose any of it's contrapuntal punch in these complicated arrangements and, novelties aside, the playing is great on this Grammy Award-winning classic. Whether performing Bach's "Two-Part Inventions," "Jesu, Joy of Man's Desiring," or "Wachet Auf," Carlos offers one-of-a-kind interpretations, her synthesizers still sounding as otherworldly as they did in 1968. This is one of those weird and wonderful classical releases that anyone--classical scholar or pop enthusiast--can enjoy. A Switched-On box set exists, capturing most of Carlos's baroque-gone-berserk output, but this is the disc that started it all. In a word, fun. --Jason VerlindeGeneral CDs
- Styles > Classical
- Featured Composers, A-Z > ( B ) > Bach, Johann Sebastian
- Forms & Genres > Concertos > Concerto Grossi
- General
- Fugues
- Inventions
- Suites
- Historical Periods > Baroque (c.1600-1750) > General
- Instruments > Electronic
- Opera & Vocal > General
- Historical Periods > Classical (c.1770-1830)
- Vocal Non-Opera > Cantatas
- Dance & Electronic > General
- Electronica
- New Age > General
- Bach, Johann Sebastian - Works by J.S. Bach
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