Wendy Carlos - Switched-On Bach (1968)

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Switched-On Bach is a musical album by Wendy Carlos (originally released under the name of Walter Carlos) and Benjamin Folkman, produced by Carlos and Rachel Elkind and released in March of 1968 by Columbia Masterworks Records. It played a key role in popularizing classical music performed on electronic synthesizers, which had until then 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. 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,[2] 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 Performance – Instrumental Soloist or Soloists (with or without orchestra) and Best Engineered Classical Recording.

Wendy Carlos - Keyboards, programming
Benjamin Folkman - supplementary keyboards
Rachel Elkind - Producer, liner notes
Robert Moog - liner notes

SINFONIA TO CANTATA # 29
AIR ON A G STRING
TWO-PART INVENTION in F Major
TWO-PART INVENTION in B-Flat Major
TWO-PART INVENTION in D Minor
JESU, JOY OF MAN'S DESIRING
PRELUDE AND FUGUE # 7 in E-Flat Major
(from Book I of The Well-Tempered Clavier)
PRELUDE AND FUGUE # 2 in C Minor
(from Book I of The Well-Tempered Clavier)
CHORALE PRELUDE "WACHET AUF"

BRANDENBURG CONCERTO NO. 3 in G Major
I -- Allegro
II -- Adagio [first, 1968 version]
III -- Allegro

Bonus Track: Initial Experiments, demonstration