Johann Sebastian Bach, Wendy Carlos - Switched-On Bach
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Free Music Review: Fascinating stuff..
Hit: 5 Stars
Back in 1971, at the University Of Kentucky in Lexington, a music major Bruce somebody introduced me to this album. Yes, album - the black round things called LPs. This album got me hooked on Bach's music lock, stock, and barrel.
I recall many music officinados critized this work as being virtual blasphemy towards Bach. Word was that the great organist and Bach scholar, E. Power Biggs, was extremely pained to witness the Master's work being so desecrated.
I distinctly remember at a usual Friday night beer bash, Bruce and a calculus teaching assistant (Wirjadi??); almost got into a fist fight over whether this was genuine music or a coarse mechanical device imitating art and making a fast buck for the artist. But when one listens to this album (now on CD) there is no doubt that this is great stuff. Listen to track 5 - the Two Part Invention in D Minor. You will be convinced that this is beautiful music albeit NOT note for note but truly fascinating. This work was done by an outstanding artist at a time when few had heard of a Moog Synthesizer.
This is an excellent album that gave me untold hours of enjoyment but more importantly introduced me to Bach's music. Thank you Walter Carlos (now Wendy Carlos). Excellent work!
Free Music Review: You need this album
Hit: 5 Stars
When I was a kid, my parents had a turntable. (The kind thatplays the black round things they used to call records.) They
had probably fifty records; this is the only one I remember.
I've since looked through the old boxes of records, and there's
quite a variety of stuff: everything from Messiah to Ray
Stevens. I'm told I listened to all of it (until the turntable
broke when I was in elementary school), but this is the album
I never forgot. It is probably the bulk of the reason that
today I like baroque music in general and J.S. Bach in
particular more than any other music.
Played this way, Bach really *moves*. It makes you want to
move, too. You can't get it out of your head, and you don't
want to. Now that I know it's still available I'm getting
the boxed set, but if you only get one album, get this one.
Free Music Review: Get this exciting CD!
Hit: 5 Stars
Switched-On Bach was the brainchild of composer and electronic musician, Wendy Carlos. It was first released in 1968, and created quite a stir, reaching the Billboard Top 100 list, and sparking interest in the electronic synthesizer as an instrument. In 2001, this groundbreaking album was remastered, and released on CD.
Overall, I must say that I love this album. I first discovered it in 1980, when it wasn't new, and absolutely loved my scratchy vinyl record it. Now, after all this time, I have Switched-On Bach back, and boy am I happy! This is album still sounds great, and I my favorite track is still Sinfonia to Cantata No. 29.
This is a wild and definitely different album, one that I am very happy to have, and one that I highly recommend. Get this exciting CD!
Free Music Review: Groovy Bach
Hit: 5 Stars
As a serious student of Bach and the Baroque, I am very particular about recordings and performances of Bach's music, but Carlos' Switched on Bach was a milestone in my youth that cannot be underestimated. I first checked it out of the public library when I was a scrawny teenager and budding musician. The novelty and quirkiness of the Moog analog synthesizer made a powerful impression on me. I played the disc over and over for weeks, earning me a hefty overdue fine. Listening to it decades later, has made me appreciate the artistic vision of Wendy/Walter Carlos, perhaps in a nostalgic way. We live in a world where period-instrument performances are commonplace and it is refreshing to step back into time when making Bach groovy feels good.Free Music Review: I was hooked on the cassette album as a kid in the mid- 1980's
Hit: 5 Stars
Wow! I have searched for this album to no end, and I found it today. I am so OVERJOYED! I remember listening to this when I was 14 and practically wore the cassette out listening to it. Somehow it got lost and I went the next 20 years without it. Recently I recalled how electrifyingly stimulating this album was to the brain and I did several random searches trying to find it. I could not recall the albums title nor the names of the musicians who created it, but remembered the photo on the front of the album. I was about to give up when I gave Amazon a try and WOLLAH...I have found it! Tears of joy came from my eyes while I was palying the samples. You know music is great when it makes you cry, this is one of my all time favorite albums.