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DiscountDelight - Switched-On Bach
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List Price: $16.98
Our Price: $12.32
Your Save: $ 4.66 ( 27% )
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Manufacturer: East Side Digital
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Binding: Audio CD
EAN: 0021561816022
Format: Enhanced
Label: East Side Digital
Manufacturer: East Side Digital
Number Of Discs: 1
Publisher: East Side Digital
Release Date: 2001-10-02
Studio: East Side Digital
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Summary: A fun trip back to the 60's
Comment: I remember being in college listening to (at the time) the LP while studying. It is a greeat trip down memeory lane.
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Summary: How about "class by itself?"
Comment: Sure I had record albums of music by Tchaikovsky & Rachmaninoff, but "Switched-On" was my real intro. to "classical" (orchestral) music. I still have this vinyl album, but I seldom drop the tonearm on it anymore: I'm afraid the stylus will come after me. Brandenburg No. 3 with its dripping water 2d movement puts this recording in a class by itself.
So I should get this on CD. I remember people had never heard of Walter Carlos, & a short while later no one did again, for he'd returned as a she named Wendy. Regardless of what meaning "original" has these days, Walter C. & "Switched-On" were just that. & That album cover wasn't bad either.
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Summary: Still Sparkles
Comment: First, for our uninformed friends. Wendy Carlos is/was Walter Carlos. Like music, people change. Wendy was far ahead of her time in all aspects of life, just ask Keith Emerson. During the 60's & early 70's and to this day for that matter, innovative musicians have dared to go beyond the limits of their supposed potential. Constraints are always cast aside by the talented and gifted instumentalist. I'll take a talented or gifted guitar, bass, drummer or keyboard player any day over a gifted singer hands up or down. Instruments sing far better than any human when the player becomes one with the instrument.
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Summary: Switched-On Bach
Comment: Although I had heard the occasional use of the Moog Synthesiser I was encouraged to hear more via BBC Radio 4's "Desert Island Discs" with Richard Griffiths when he chose the Brandenburg Concertos as one of his records ( - albeit wrongly described as by "Walter" Carlos.)
I am glad that I eventually found it as the record is superb, despite the enjoyment of the music being abruptly changed by an explanatory piece by Wendy Carlos - albeit excellent in its own right. I hope that Amazon will stock her "Switched On Brandenburg" in the same genre.
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Summary: I was hooked on the cassette album as a kid in the mid- 1980's
Comment: 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.
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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 Verlinde
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