Switched-On Bach II

Switched-On Bach II
Studio album by Wendy Carlos
Released	1973
Genre	Electronic baroque
Length	40 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.

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