1 Switched-on Bach
2 Well-Tempered Synthesizer
3 Switched-on Bach II
4 Switched-on Brandenburgs
This is an amusing single disc sampler prompting memories of those late sixties
and seventies releases when synthesisers were the 'dernier cri'. These represent
much loving care lavished on the original analogue tapes using ultra-high
fidelity 20-Bit High-D sound. So memory lane for 'forty somethings'? Yes,
but is there more?
Well there is a grandeur about much of this music (try Orfeo Suite - Monteverdi
and Handel Water Music). The liquid burble of the Scarlatti sonatas is
attractive. Other-worldliness hangs like a damask cloak over the extract
from Monteverdi Vespers of 1610. Sheep May Safely Graze plods glumly along
but this is the sole miscalculation in an otherwise chummy and sometimes
remarkable collection. I am not sure I personally could stand a whole CD
of this at a single sitting but there is no doubting the musicality of this
music. If it appeals at a nostalgic level then well and good too.
Reviewer
Rob Barnett
Sales links
Also on ESD there is
Sonic Seasonings boxed set
Amazon
US
Tales of Heaven and Hell
Amazon
US
plus
Telarc CD80323 is a single CD Switched on Bach 2000
Amazon
UK
A Clockwork Orange
Amazon
US
Wendy Carlos
