Wendy Carlos - Wendy Carlos - Switched-On Bach 2000 (Cassette)
Telarc  (1992)
Electronica/Dance

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Cassette    16 tracks  (53:45) 
   01   Happy 25th, S-OB             00:40
   02   Sinfonia In D Major       From Cantata No. 29       03:35
   03   Air On A G String       From Suite in D major       03:15
   04   Two Part Invention In F Major             00:47
   05   Two Part Invention In B-Flat Major             01:23
   06   Two Part Invention In D Minor             00:59
   07   Jesu, Joy Of Man's Desiring       From Cantata No. 147       03:33
   08   Prelude No. 7 In E-Flat Major       From The Well-Tempered Clavier, Book I       05:42
   09   Fugue No. 7 In E-Flat Major       From The Well-Tempered Clavier, Book I       01:48
   10   Prelude No. 2 In C Minor       From The Well-Tempered Clavier, Book I       01:32
   11   Fugue No. 2 In C Minor       From The Well-Tempered Clavier, Book I       01:32
   12   Wachet Auf       From Cantata No. 140       04:44
   13   Brandenburg Concerto No. 3 In G Major (I. Allegro)             06:49
   14   (II. Adagio)             02:36
   15   (III. Allegro)             05:48
   16   Toccata And Fugue In D Minor             09:02
Personal Details
Cost $8.00
Location Telarc Collection

Locator
Disc 1 : CS-30323
Details
Catalog CS-30323
Packaging Cassette
Spars DDD
Sound Stereo
User Defined
Classification: TELARC CASSETTES
Notes
The cover for this new remastering has changed since 1992. The concept Telarc came up with was certainly apt in its homage to the well known CBS cover (photographed with panache by the legendary team of Horn/Griner), but updated with a ""computerized harpsichord."" The result, unfortunately, is dark and murky, gracelessly chopped-off at the bottom, to allow for several lines of type at the top. And sheet music blowing away wouldn't look quite like that. It simply never worked for me.

We can do better for this special edition, while matching the ""look and feel"" of the rest of our Switched-On collection. The new cover began with original H/G elements, and features music tools I actually used in 1992 (Mac computer and monitors, a Kurzweil MIDIBoard), to replace that 1968 portable Moog. Notice a few sly other differences, such as updating the cat with a new Siamese model. Since the first cover showed not a single synth patch cord, no sound could have be made or heard. Our new cover captures the equipment powered up and ready to go, as it was while creating the album.

First-time listeners also should note that there are two bonus tracks on S-OB2K not present on the first S-OB. A short Happy Birthday parody greeting begins the proceedings, and we end with an encore, that forceful epitome of Baroque organ music, the Toccata and Fugue in d, played with as much spirit and drama as I could conjure. Also the middle movement in the 3rd Brandenburg is new and insinuates itself nicely, my best attempt yet to compose within the style and idiom of dear J.S. Bach. You will find a complete track-by-track description of all the music included in the New Edition's Booklet. Finally, rest assured the audio on this CD has been newly tweaked and polished, and has never sounded better.