The music sounds wonderful, it is entirely Bach after all. Carlos has created several very subtle electronic timbres at a time when most people either tried to imitate existing instruments, or go to the other extreme of creating very obviously electronic timbres. The recording is a technical tour-de-force. It’s hard to imagine creating these pieces on a monophonic instrument which could not stay in tune for more than a few minutes.

 

Nice album cover, too. (Go to the used record store and look for one which credits Walter Carlos.)

Wendy Carlos

1968