classical music: Wendy Carlos

classical music: Wendy Carlos

classical music:

Wendy Carlos

Johann Sebastian Bach, Wendy Carlos

East Side Digital, 2002

Staggering for the time, holds up well today
Switched-On Bach II (along with The Well-Tempered Synthesizer) really shows what the analogue Moog gear could do in the hands of people who knew what they were doing. The performances hold up and the arrangements make the most of the material. This is Bach, after all, ...

J.S. Bach - Greatest Hits Vol 1

Johann Sebastian Bach, Eugene Ormandy, ...

Sony, 1990

Ormandy really shines here
"Bach's Greatest Hits, Volume 1," is a compilation of 8 pieces showing Bach as a versatile composer, and also what was available in Columbia records' catalog in the late 1960s. The Ormandy and Casals tracks are from the 1960s; the Walter Carlos track from around ...

Rediscovering Lost Scores, Vol. 1

Wendy Carlos, Wendy / Elkind, Rachel Carlos

East Side Digital, 2005

Treasure Trove of Cinemagic
In between her pioneering classical transcriptions and her groundbreaking explorations of new timbres and tunings, Carlos was also called upon to score a few films. Of these only one, "A Clockwork Orange," has been adequately represented by an official soundtrack ...

The Well-Tempered Synthesizer

Wendy Carlos

East Side Digital, 2001

Kudo's for Wendy Carlos
Wendy Carlos does an excellent job of updating all of the Classical pieces on this CD, as well as on all of her other CDs. I originally had this on Open Reel Tape, and am really happy that she has ported it over to the CD format! All of the selections on this CD can ...

Switched-On Bach

Johann Sebastian Bach, Wendy Carlos

East Side Digital, 2001

Scary Music
I can honestly say that I've never heard another album or song in my life that transports the listener to such an alien realm. The music is so byzantine, layered, precise, fast....its a trip. I jokingly told my son that this is the music that robots listen to. Its ...

Sonic Seasonings + [Enhanced CD]

Wendy Carlos

East Side Digital, 2003

Amazing Audio Journey
I first discovered this wonderful album as a two disk vinyl set checked out from the public library. Synthesizers were my high school fascination and I'd already discovered Tomita's "Pictures at an Exhibition" & Wendy's (then Walter Carlos') "Switched on Bach". But ...

Rediscovering Lost Scores, Vol. 2

Wendy Carlos, Wendy / Elkind, Rachel Carlos, ...

East Side Digital, 2005

Finally and Fulfilling!
Believe the hype, _Shining_ fans. These bits and pieces of music - volume 1 focuses more on "studio music and textures" of the themes devised for the film while volume 2 spends its allotted tracks on the more fully developed orchestra tracks - hold just about ...

Switched-On Boxed Set

Johann Sebastian Bach, George Frederick Handel, ...

East Side Digital, 1999

A few thoughts on the SOBoxed....
I just happened upon this set of reviews on Amazon (although I had reviewed the original SOB separately years ago), and was delighted at the multitude of very favorable reviews by others. But then came the weeds amongst the fruit, namely those few reviews by people who ...

Beauty in the Beast

Wendy Carlos

East Side Digital, 2003

The end of a long period of Tragic Unavailability
I have proudly owned a copy of the first release of this CD all these years. It is the best example I know of an utterly brilliant recording being tragically unavailable. As other reviewers note, the tuning does sound strange at first, but then one realizes how ...

Tales of Heaven & Hell

Wendy Carlos

East Side Digital, 2003

my apologies for getting it wrong the first time.
When I first heard this album a few years ago, I honestly was a little disappointed. To summarize the review I posted at that time (which Amazon was kind enough to remove at my request), I felt the album to be a little contrived. It felt "overworked" to my ears, as it ...

Switched-On Brandenburgs

Johann Sebastian Bach, Wendy Carlos

East Side Digital, 2002

Wonderful from Beginning to End!
Concerto #3 was incredible on the original Switched-On Bach album, and remains one of the best performances in this collection. Concerto #4 is from the Well-Tempered Synth. #5 from Switched-On Bach II. I tried hard to pick up the "glitch" mentioned by the other ...

Digital Moonscapes

Wendy Carlos

East Side Digital, 2003

Regarding the orchestral replicas in Digital Moonscapes
Reviewer John Diliberto has not done justice to this album by his review. I believe he has missed the point of the LSI Philharmonic. Yes, the sounds were intended to replicate orchestral sounds, but only insofar as they are sonic replications in their particular ...

Forever in Love

Johann Sebastian Bach, Joseph Barnby, ...

Compendia, 1997

A wedding minister's review
I just love this album. I am a wedding minister and many couples ask me about music for their ceremony. I am happy to recommend they buy this album for a wonderful selection of wedding music both traditional and contemporary performed by orchestras, keyboardists, ...