Switched-On Bach II

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Switched-On Bach II
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Studio album by
Released1973
Genre
Length40 minutes
Label East Side Digital
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 .

Contents

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):

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