Recording ДЄ sample of 'Brandenburg Concerto No. Paul Myers of Columbia Masterworks Records granted Carlos, Folkman, and Elkind artistic freedom to record and release it. Elkind contacted her friend, producer and conductor Ettore Stratta at Columbia Records, who 'generously spread his enthusiasm throughout the rest of the company' and assisted in the album production. 3 in G major and became the album's producer. Elkind was impressed with the recording of Brandenburg Concerto No. She intended to use the novel technology to make 'appealing music you could really listen to', not 'ugly' music being produced by avant-garde musicians at the time. Soon after, Carlos began plans to produce an album of Bach pieces performed on the recently invented Moog synthesizer. One recording was a rendition of Two-Part Invention in F major by Johann Sebastian Bach, which Carlos described as 'charming'. They included compositions written ten years earlier, and some written from 1964 with her friend Benjamin Folkman at the Columbia-Princeton Electronic Music Center in New York City.

In 1970, it won Grammy Awards for Best Classical Album, Best Classical Performance вЂ“ Instrumental Soloist or Soloists (With or Without Orchestra), and Best Engineered Classical Recording.ДЄround 1967, Carlos asked the musician Rachel Elkind to listen to her electronic compositions.

By June 1974, it had sold over one million copies, and in 1986 became the second classical album to be certified platinum. Switched-On Bach reached number 10 on the US Billboard 200 chart and topped the Billboard Classical Albums chart from 1969 to 1972. It played a key role in bringing synthesizers to popular music, which had until then been mostly used in experimental music. Produced by Carlos and Rachel Elkind, the album is a collection of pieces by Johann Sebastian Bach performed by Carlos and Benjamin Folkman on a Moog synthesizer. Switched-On Bach is the debut album by the American composer Wendy Carlos, released under the name Walter Carlos, in October 1968 by Columbia Records.

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