popular music: Wendy Carlos

popular music: Wendy Carlos

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Wendy Carlos

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 ...

Switched-On Bach II

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, ...

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 ...

A Clockwork Orange: Wendy Carlos's Complete Original Score

Wendy Carlos

Warner Bros. Pictures, 1998

Scary, yet wonderful! A real horrorshow!
This album contains all the tracks that were originally suppose to be in the movie. However, Kubrick chose to alternate between the synth versions and classic orchestra. I think that if all these versions made by Wendy were in the movie, in my opinion, the film would ...

The Incredible Film Music Box

Kenneth J. Alford, Klaus Badelt, ...

Silva America, 2005

Excellent collection with fine performances
Silva Screen Records, based in England, has been issuing some fine collections of film scores, more in one box than we have the right to expect. This four-CD box contains scores by many of the best writers, including Max Steiner, Bernard Herrmann, Dimitri Tomkin, ...

Tron

Wendy Carlos

EMI Gold, 2006

A Soundtrack Where The Music Takes You to Another World
As someone who is a big fan of movie soundtracks and in particular of film scores, I initially took an interest in the "TRON" film score when browsing Amazon for another film CD and just happened to come across the "TRON" soudtrack. After checking out the short sound ...

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 ...

Stanley Kubrick's Clockwork Orange (1971 Film)

Various Artists, Ludwig van Beethoven, ...

Warner Bros. Pictures / Sunset Strategic Marketing (SSM), 1990

Prisoner 6 double-five 3-2-1
The soundtrack album of CLOCKWORK ORANGE, even with it's simple (and supposedly) outdated Wendy Carlos recordings, holds up far better than the actual film has over these 36 years. This story takes place in the 1990s, and we all know that today's world is nothing like ...

Video Games Live, Vol. 1

Peter Griffin, Wendy Carlos, ...

Angel Records, 2008

Worth Every Penny
Video Games Live Vol. I music album. Trust me to everyone who is considering buying a copy: it is worth it. The more people who buy this album, the more sales they will get, and the more chance VGL Vol. II will come. Jack Wall actually said he wants to make AT LEAST ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...