Switched-On Bach is the first studio album by the American composer Wendy Carlos, released under her birth name Walter Carlos in October 1968 by Columbia Records.

Wendy Carlos had come up with an artistically valid and musically legitimate approach to the most tradition-bound of all classical music that made it not only palatable but exciting to a generation of listeners more inclined toward the Beatles than Beethoven (much less Bach)

Art Direction – Anilda Carrasquillo. Composed By – Johann Sebastian Bach (tracks: 2 to 13, 15, 16), Wendy Carlos (tracks: 1, 14). Design Concept – Fred Aicher. Graphics – Susan Cybulski. Other – Annemarie Franklin. Performer, Arranged By, Producer, Engineer – Wendy Carlos. Photography By – Myron Jay Dorf.

Released October 1968. Switched-On Bach Tracklist. 1. Sinfonia to Cantata No. 29 Lyrics. 2. Air on a G String Lyrics. About Switched-On Bach. Bearing Carlos' original name of Walter Carlos, the album was conceived by Carlos not as an attempt to revive Bach but because she was dissatisfied with the use of electronic instruments before 1968 and wanted to use them to play appealing music. The album was a smash, peaking at No. 10 on the Billboard chart, staying at the top of Billboard’s classical chart for three years, being certified platinum, and winning three Grammy Awards. Switched-On Bach Q&A

Switched-On Bach II is a musical album by Wendy Carlos, originally released under her birth name, Walter Carlos, in 1973 on Columbia Records and produced by Carlos and Rachel Elkind and is a sequel to the 1968 album Switched-On Bach.

Wendy Carlos, who was born Walter Carlos but later changed her name - and gender - experienced this hostility first hand when she recorded Switched-On Bach. A music and physics student at two Ivy League universities, "Carlos encountered 'alienation and condescension' both students and faculty traditional musical values. Switched-On Bach became essential listening for anyone versed in electronic music. Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery, and the commercial success of Switched-On Bach gave rise to literally hundreds of imitators, including Switched-On Bacharach, Chopin a la Moog, Switched-On Nashville Country Moog, and even Switched-On Santa.

Switched-On Bach is the first studio album by the American musician and composer Wendy Carlos, released under her birth name Walter Carlos in October 1968 by Columbia Records. Switched-On Bach peaked on the US Billboard 200 chart at number 10 and topped its Classical Albums chart from 1969 to 1972

When Wendy Carlos released "Switched-On Bach" in 1968, she sent an electric shock through the music world. This set includes all of Carlos's brilliant baroque recreations, painstakingly remastered by the moog master herself. Just as Bach's Brandenburg concertos remain fine examples of music written for a small ensemble, so Wendy's realisations of this music,.

Switched on Bach 1. Usage. rcial-No Derivative Works . First synthesiser exeperiments by Walter Carlos. External metadata update. 2019-04-10T01:41:58Z. I was 11 when I first heard, and had to have, this album on reel to reel tape. I played it all the time at home. I saw Clockwork Orange when I was 'old enough' and before it was banned. There was the same music! Without a Wendy is the musician that instilled a love of music in my soul.