Switched-On Bach II

Switched-On Bach II
Studio album by Wendy Carlos
Released	1973
Genre	Electronic baroque
Length	39:28
Label	Columbia Masterworks East Side Digital (reissue)
Producer	Rachel Elkind
Wendy Carlos chronology
Walter Carlos' Clockwork Orange (1972) Switched-On Bach II (1973) By Request (1975)

Switched-On Bach II is a musical album by Wendy Carlos in 1973 on Columbia Records and produced by Carlos and Rachel Elkind and is a sequel to the 1968 album Switched-On Bach .

In February 1974, Billboard reported that the album had sold over 70,000 copies in its first five weeks of release. ^[1]

Tracks

All composed by Johann Sebastian Bach (except that the four pieces from the Notebook for Anna Magdalena Bach are either doubtful or spurious):

• Selections from Suite No. 2 in B minor, BWV 1067:
  • Badinerie (1:25)
  • Minuet (1:20)
  • Bourrée (1:40)
• Two-Part Inventions:
  • in A minor, BWV 784 (1:20)
  • in A major, BWV 783 (1:10)
• "Sheep may safely graze", from Cantata No. 208, BWV 208 (5:00)
• Suite from Anna Magdalena Notebook:
  • Musette in D major, BWV Anh. 126 (1:10) – possibly by J.S. Bach
  • Minuet in G major, BWV Anh. 114 (1:40) – composed by Christian Petzold
  • "Bist du bei mir", BWV 508 (2:15) – based on a song by Gottfried Heinrich Stölzel
  • Marche in D major, BWV Anh. 122 (1:00) – possibly by Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach
• Brandenburg Concerto No. 5 in D major, BWV 1050:
  • Allegro (10:45)
  • Affetuoso (5:35)
  • Allegro (4:50)

References

1. 16 February 1974 edition of Billboard magazine, p. 27.

External links

• Switched-On Bach II, ESD 81622 at WendyCarlos.com