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Wendy Carlos - Switched-On Bach Boxed Set (1999)

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Date: 31 Dec 2008 12:05:00

Wendy Carlos - Switched-On Bach Boxed Set (1999)

Wendy Carlos - Switched-On Bach Box Set (1999)
Classic & Electronic | 4 CD + 1 Data CD | FLAC single files w/ tags | 1 Gb

Switched-On Bach (1968) was an early album demonstrating the use of synthesizers as a genuine musical instrument. As an early user of Robert Moog's first commercially available synthesizer, Carlos helped pioneer the technology, which was significantly more difficult to use than it is today. Multitrack recording techniques played a critical role in the time-consuming process of creating this album. Switched-On Bach was one of the first classical albums to sell 500,000 copies, and (eventually) to go platinum.

Wendy Carlos (born Walter Carlos, November 14, 1939) is an American composer and electronic musician. She gained fame for playing on synthesizers, which was a new instrument at the time. Though her early albums were interpretations of the works of classical composers, she later released original compositions.

Switched-On Bach is a musical album by Wendy Carlos (then Walter Carlos) and Benjamin Folkman, produced by Carlos and Rachel Elkind and released in 1968 by CBS Records. It played a key role in popularising classical music performed on electronic synthesizers, which had theretofore been relegated to experimental and "pop" music. This fostered a significant increase in interest in electronically-rendered music in general, and the Moog synthesizer in particular.

Switched-On Bach was one of the first classical albums to sell 500,000 copies, and go platinum (Van Cliburn's recording of Tchaikovsky's Piano Concerto No. 1 went triple-platinum in 1958). Entering Billboard's pop Top 40 charts on March 1, 1969, it climbed quickly to the Top 10; it stayed in the Top 40 for 17 weeks [1], and in the Top 200 for more than a year. In the 1970 Grammy awards, the album took three prizes: Best Classical Album, Best Classical Music Performance, Instrumental Soloist(s) (With or Without Orchestra) and Best Engineered Classical Recording.

The Well-Tempered Synthesizer is a 1969 album released by Wendy Carlos (then released as Walter Carlos) following the groundbreaking Switched-On Bach in the previous year. The album consists of a selection of pieces by Monteverdi, Domenico Scarlatti, and Handel as well as Bach whose music was exclusively featured on the first album. The title of The Well-Tempered Synthesizer is a play on Bach's own collection of pieces entitled The Well-Tempered Clavier.

All selections were performed on a Moog modular synthesizer system. Like Switched On Bach, The Well-Tempered Synthesizer was recorded on an 8 track Ampex tape recorder using numerous takes and overdubs. This was long before the days of MIDI sequencers and recording the album was by all accounts a laborious process.

More
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wendy_Carlos
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Well-Tempered_Synthesizer
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Switched-On_Bach

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Track List
Switched-On Bach

01 - Sinfonia to Cantata BWV 29.flac
02 - Air In a G String.flac
03 - Two Part Invention in F Maior.flac
04 - Two Part Invention in B-Flat Maior.flac
05 - Tow Part Invention in D Minor.flac
06 - Jesu, Joy of Man's Desiring.flac
07 - Well-Tempered Clavier, Book 1+ Prelude and Fugue No. 7 in E-flat major, BWV 852.flac
08 - Well-Tempered Clavier, Book 1+ Prelude and Fugue No. 2 in C minor, BWV 847.flac
09 - Chorale Prelude +Wachet Auf+.flac
10 - Brandenburg Concerto, No. 3 in G major, BWV 1048+ I. Allegro.flac
11 - Brandenburg Concerto, No. 3 in G major, BWV 1048+ II. Adagio (1968 version).flac
12 - Brandenburg Concerto, No. 3 in G major, BWV 1048+ III. Allegro.flac
13 - Adagio (second 1979 version).flac
14 - Initial Experiments & Demonstration.flac

Switched-On Bach II

01 - Selections from Suite No. 2 in B minor+ Badinerie.flac
02 - Selections from Suite No. 2 in B minor+ Minuet.flac
03 - Selections from Suite No. 2 in B minor+ Bourrée.flac
04 - Two-Part Invention in A minor.flac
05 - Two-Part Invention in A major.flac
06 - Cantata No. 208+ Sheep May Safely Graze.flac
07 - Suite from Anna Magdalena Notebook+ Musette in D major.flac
08 - Suite from Anna Magdalena Notebook+ Minuet in G major.flac
09 - Suite from Anna Magdalena Notebook+ Bist du bei mir.flac
10 - Suite from Anna Magdalena Notebook+ Marche in D major.flac
11 - Little Fugue in G minor.flac
12 - Brandenburg Concerto No. 5 in D major+ I. Allegro.flac
13 - Brandenburg Concerto No. 5 in D major+ II. Affettuoso.flac
14 - Brandenburg Concerto No. 5 in D major+ III. Allegro.flac

Switched-On Brandenburgs

01 - Concerto No. 1 in F major, BWV 1046+ I. Allegro.flac
02 - Concerto No. 1 in F major, BWV 1046+ II. Adagio.flac
03 - Concerto No. 1 in F major, BWV 1046+ III. Allegro.flac
04 - Concerto No. 1 in F major, BWV 1046+ IV. Menuetto - Trio I - Polocca - Trio II.flac
05 - Concerto No. 2 in F major, BWV 1047+ II. Allegro.flac
06 - Concerto No. 2 in F major, BWV 1047+ II. Andante.flac
07 - Concerto No. 2 in F major, BWV 1047+ III. Allegro assai.flac
08 - Concerto No. 6 in G major, BWV 1048+ I. Allegro.flac
09 - Concerto No. 6 in G major, BWV 1048+ II. Adagio.flac
10 - Concerto No. 6 in G major, BWV 1048+ II. Allegro.flac

The Well-Tempered Synthesizer

01 - Orfeo Suite.flac
02 - Sonata in G major, L. 209+K. 455.flac
03 - Sonata in D major, L. 164+K. 491.flac
04 - Water Music+ Bouree.flac
05 - Water Music+ Air.flac
06 - Water Music+ Allegro Deciso.flac
07 - Sonata in E major, L. 430+K. 531.flac
08 - Sonata in D major, L. 465+K. 96.flac
09 - Brandenburg Concerto, No. 4+ I. Allegro.flac
10 - Brandenburg Concerto, No. 4+ II. Andante.flac
11 - Brandenburg Concerto, No. 4+ III. Presto.flac
12 - Domine ad Adjuvandum (from the 1610 Vespers).flac
13 - Stereo Alligment Tones.flac
14 - Well-Tempered Experiments.flac

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