Switched on Bach 2000 [Enhanced]

Wendy Carlos (Artist) | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (November 9, 2004)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Format: Enhanced
• Label: East Side Digital
• ASIN: B00067RER4
• Average Customer Review: 3.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #249,439 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)
  • #57 in Music > Classical > Instruments > Electronic > Computer

Track Listings

1. Happy 25th, S-OB

2. Cantata No. 208, 'Was mir behagt,' (Hunt Cantata), BWV 208 (BC G1, G3): Sinfonia in D major

3. Orchestral Suite No. 3 in D major, BWV 1068: Air on a G String

4. Two-Part Invention, for keyboard No. 8 in F major, BWV 779 (BC L49)

5. Two-Part Invention, for keyboard No. 14 in B flat major, BWV 785 (BC L55)

6. Two-Part Invention, for keyboard No. 4 in D minor, BWV 775 (BC L45)

7. Cantata No. 147, 'Herz und Mund und Tat und Leben,' BWV 147 (BC A174): Jesu, Joy of Man's Desiring

8. Prelude and Fugue, for keyboard No. 7 in E flat major (WTC I/7), BWV 852 (BC L86): Prelude (from the Well-Tempered Clavier)

9. Prelude and Fugue, for keyboard No. 7 in E flat major (WTC I/7), BWV 852 (BC L86): Fugue (from the Well-Tempered Clavier)

10. Prelude and Fugue, for keyboard No. 2 in C minor (WTC I/2), BWV 847 (BC L81): Prelude (from the Well-Tempered Clavier)

11. Prelude and Fugue, for keyboard No. 2 in C minor (WTC I/2), BWV 847 (BC L81): Fugue (from the Well-Tempered Clavier)

12. Cantata No. 140, 'Wachet auf, ruft uns die Stimme,' BWV 140 (BC A166): Wachet Auf

13. Brandenburg Concerto No. 3 in G major, BWV 1048: 1. Allegro

14. Brandenburg Concerto No. 3 in G major, BWV 1048: 2. Adagio

15. Brandenburg Concerto No. 3 in G major, BWV 1048: 3. Allegro

16. Toccata and Fugue, for organ in D minor, BWV 565 (BC J37)

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Genre: Classical Music
Media Format: Compact Disk
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Release Date: 9-NOV-2004

Customer Reviews

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11 of 12 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Pass on this one, September 22, 2009

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Stephen McLeod (New York, NY USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Switched on Bach 2000 (Audio CD)

This album consists of a rethinking, circa 1996 or so, of the original Bach readings on "Switched on Bach" (1). I was a kid when I found that and two other recordings from the 60s in a bin at K-Mart. They pretty much changed my life, or at least the musical direction of my life. I was and still am a big fan of those recordings. Fairly recently, WC also took the old masters from those original recordings and completely scrubbed them and they sound sparkling and fresh and good as new. Not this one, sadly. This strange, ponderous album duplicates the tracks on the first SO-B, and in addition to revising them entirely, she supposedly updates them using new technology. I'm sorry but I'll stick with the old technology. As I was listening to this, I kept checking to see if my speakers were plugged in properly. Alas, they were. This album sounds like when one ear of your headphones isn't working. And this seems to be by design. It's nearly unendurable and I only gave it the second star because, she's earned it elsewhere. But it's simply astounding that she would have jumped the shark here so thoroughly. If you are interested, I would highly recommend the box set of the remasters of SO-B 1 & 2; The Well Tempered Synthesizer, and the Switched on Brandenburgs, which are hopefully hyperlinked here: Switched-On Boxed Set

5.0 out of 5 stars A work of genius!, December 29, 2011

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Wold - See all my reviews

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This review is from: Switched on Bach 2000 (Audio CD)

This is Bach, as you have never heard him before.

The previous reviewer, I believe, was quite mistaken and didn't understand what this CD represented. This is NOT simply a re-do of the original "Switched on Bach".

Rather, this is a completely new, mature interpretation. The most important thing to understand is that the pieces are performed in Bach's original scales and temperaments.

This is NOT, in other words, performed in "equal temperament"-- what does that mean? Equal Temperament is "the ubiquitous 12-note" scale that we have become used to in Western music. This was not standardized in Bach's time. Wendy Carlos has (using scholarship which she does not discuss in the notes) used Bach's tunings.

This results in seriously fantastic versions of familiar pieces. If you want to expand your understanding of the pieces or just hear them in a way you have never heard them before, this CD is for you. It is hauntingly beautiful.

I find it very unfortunate that virtually all of the remastered, enhanced sound CDs produced by Wendy Carlos only, in some cases a few years ago are all out of print. This is a huge loss to music.

A final note: be sure you get the newer, remastered "enhanced sound" version of this CD (and all of her work when possible) not the older CDs.