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Switched On Brandenburgs

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Released
  
1979

Length
  
122:34

Release date
  
1979

Label
  
CBS Records International

Recorded
  
1968–1979

Artist
  
Wendy Carlos

Producer
  
Rachel Elkind

Genre
  
Electronic music

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Switched-On Brandenburgs (1979)
  
The Shining Score Selections (soundtrack) (1980)

Wendy Carlos albums
  
Switched‑On Bach II, The Well‑Tempered Synthesizer, Digital Moonscapes, Switched‑On Bach, Switched‐On Bach 2000

Switched-On Brandenburgs is a 1979 double album by Wendy Carlos. It was the seventh album released by Carlos, and the fourth album in her project of classical music which also included Switched-On Bach (1968), The Well-Tempered Synthesizer (1969), Switched-On Bach II (1974), and Switched-On Bach 2000 (1992).

Contents

Switched-On Brandenburgs is a collection of all six of Bach's Brandenburg Concertos performed by Carlos on her Moog modular synthesizer. Concerti #1, (most of) #2, and #6 were recorded specifically for the album. Concerti #3, #4, and #5 had been previously released on Switched-On Bach, The Well-Tempered Synthesizer, and Switched-On Bach II respectively (though the second movement of #3 was re-recorded for this release). The first movement of the Second Concerto had been recorded for the album By Request, released in 1975, however an updated mix is on this album.

Disc one

  1. "Brandenburg Concerto # 1 in F Major: Allegro"
  2. "Brandenburg Concerto # 1 in F Major: Adagio"
  3. "Brandenburg Concerto # 1 in F Major: Allegro"
  4. "Brandenburg Concerto # 1 in F Major: Menuet/Trio I/Polocca/Trio II"
  5. "Brandenburg Concerto # 2 in F Major: Allegro"
  6. "Brandenburg Concerto # 2 in F Major: Andante"
  7. "Brandenburg Concerto # 2 in F Major: Allegro Assai"
  8. "Brandenburg Concerto # 3 in G Major: Allegro"
  9. "Brandenburg Concerto # 3 in G Major: Adagio" (see note)
  10. "Brandenburg Concerto # 3 in G Major: Allegro"

Disc two

  1. "Brandenburg Concerto # 4 in G Major: Allegro"
  2. "Brandenburg Concerto # 4 in G Major: Andante"
  3. "Brandenburg Concerto # 4 in G Major: Presto"
  4. "Brandenburg Concerto # 5 in D Major: Allegro"
  5. "Brandenburg Concerto # 5 in D Major: Affettuoso"
  6. "Brandenburg Concerto # 5 in D Major: Allegro"
  7. "Brandenburg Concerto # 6 in B-Flat Major: Allegro"
  8. "Brandenburg Concerto # 6 in B-Flat Major: Adagio Ma Non Tanto"
  9. "Brandenburg Concerto # 6 in B-Flat Major: Allegro"
  • Note: the Adagio of Brandenburg Concerto No. 3 is Carlos' own composition. J.S. Bach provided only a Phrygian cadence consisting of two chords (A minor and B) between the two movements in G major. The version on this album was composed and recorded in 1979 and differs from the 1968 track used for Switched-On Bach.

    • Songs

    1Brandenburg Concerto No 1 in F major - BWV 1046: I Allegro4:10
    2Brandenburg Concerto No 1 in F major - BWV 1046: II Adagio4:09
    3Brandenburg Concerto No 1 in F major - BWV 1046: III Allegro4:23

    References

    Switched-On Brandenburgs Wikipedia
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