Walter Carlos-Switched-On Bach (1968)
Artist: Walter Carlos
Title: Switched-On Bach
Label:Columbia Masterworks
Format: LP
Catalog Number: MS 7194
Condition: VG/VG
Discogs Last Sold: 11/6/25 VG+/VG+ $5.00
Low: $0.99
Median: $7.33
Average: $11.06
High: $71.25
Current low price: $2.99 NM/VG+
Current Number on Sale at Discogs: 21
Have/Want: 7285/771
Where Sold: Morzine, Haute Savoy, France
Time It Took To Sell: 3 years
Where and When Bought: Facebook marketplace lot
Gwiz-gau Letter Grade: A
Sad To See It Go: No
In between the time of it's release in 1969 and Platinum certification, Walter Carlos became Wendy Carlos. I'm not using a "dead name" to make a political point, but since I'm writing about the artifict in question, it is credited to Walter and that is cemented in time.
As far as Wendy's accomplishment, this is the album that introduced the synthesizer to the masses with pieces from the Bach canon. Also with Robert Moog she helped design the instrument. It is interesting to hear the music this way from both a novelty standpoint and as a concept piece. We get inventions, preludes and fugues in B flat, C minor, D minor, E Flat, F Major and the Brandenberg Concert in G Major. The wall bank was roughly 6' wide by 5' tall. I don't know what Wendy uses today at 86 if anything since her last recordings were released in 2005.
Absolutely worth hearing in a past meets the future in the past sort of way.
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