Johann Sebastian Bach
Switched-On Bach (LP)
condition (record/cover): VG (some surface noise) / VG (general wear)
Released October 1968. Ten Bach pieces, each recorded note-by-note on an eight-track machine because the Moog modular was monophonic. Roughly 1,100 working hours of overdubbing. Carlos and Benjamin Folkman played the parts; Rachel Elkind produced from the West 88th Street brownstone studio she shared with Carlos.
The album reached Billboard 200 #10, topped the Classical chart from 1969 to 1972, sold a million by 1974, went p…
Piano Duet
Before the epigones take over the stage we are given a chance to hear out Bach himself: the unfinished four-voice Contrapunctus XIV from the Art of the Fugue marks the starting point of Andreas Grau's and Götz Schumacher's remarkable exploration of the Bach cosmos. In the Berlin autograph of the Contrapunctus XIV the place where the score breaks off is marked by an inscription: "At the point where the name BACH is introduced in the countersubject to this fugue, the composer died." Even though fr…