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| The Well-Tempered Synthesizer | 
 enlarge | Artist: Wendy Carlos
Label: East Side Digital
Category: Music
List Price: $16.98
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Avg. Customer Rating:  (12 reviews)
Sales Rank: 38158
Format: Enhanced, Original Recording Remastered
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 5.6 x 5 x 0.5
MPN: 618161
UPC: 021561816121
EAN: 0021561816121
ASIN: B00005OKS2
Release Date: October 2, 2001
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 More of the quasi-same July 2, 2005
5 out of 5 found this review helpful
Many people know the first Wendy (then Walter) Carlos album, the more than justly acclaimed Switched-on Bach, a marvellous album representing a sort of Best of Bach but also the first album totally executed on the Moog Synthesizer and the one that helped more than a bit the world to know and embrace the new sounds and peculiarities of what at the time wasn't even considered an instrument. For me it was the album that turned me on to electronic music and to this day is one of my favourite instrumental albums regardless of genres. Funny then that only recently did I find the need to purchase other Carlos' albums! However, The Well-Tempered Synthesizer, while not reaching the heights of its predecessors is a very good album indeed, introducing a welcome variety by adding other musicians to the mighty Bach and Scarlatti's music seem particularly apt to be translated. Quite interesting also Monteverdi's, while Handel's is a bit weak but still pleasant enough. Hats off once again to Bach's, there is a special empathy that makes the performance invigorating and memorable. I'd definitely recommend this one to whoever owns Switched-on Bach and to fans of electronic music in general.
 Go Moog! April 9, 2004
7 out of 9 found this review helpful
I love that electronic sound and Walter/Wendy's arrangements. I have been listening to my dad's LP of "Well-Tempered Synthesizer" since I was a small child and now it's getting somewhat scratchy, so I'll buy the CD. I also enjoyed the music in "A Clockwork Orange".
Stop complaining May 19, 2003
15 out of 15 found this review helpful
...This album, Carlos' follow up to Switched On Bach, is actually better than it's predecessor. This is to be expected as the technology improved, but perhaps more importantly, Carlos' feeling and attention to detail improved as well. The timbres are lighter and airer, and there is a greater sense of rhythm and intensity. And there is always something eerie about this work, and with most of her early recordings. The sounds are fluttery, elusive, sometimes off tune, and the pitches waver. I'm always struck at how bold her sound is, compared to other artists like the ethereal Isao Tomita, and this album is all the more rich and powerful because of it. If you have to own one of her early recordings, this is the one to get. The haunting final Monteverdi piece, with its strange, beautiful, and terrifying electronic vocals is worth the price of admission alone.
first crush April 2, 2003
8 out of 9 found this review helpful
I remember listening to this when I was 4 years old and living in Chicago Ill. in 1973. I would drive my family crazy on Sunday afternoons playing this and Switched on Bach. This is what got me into classical music and it reminds me of the first girl I had a crush on in Kindergarten. My parents bought this for my and my older brothers to get us interested in music, well it worked for me the first time I heard this wonderful album. The first 5 pieces are very romantic sounding and the very last piece on the album is hauntingly beautiful. It has that late sixties early seventies sound to it. True artistic expression that Wendy Carlos uses in this.
A long time coming to CD February 1, 2003
8 out of 8 found this review helpful
I'm by no means well-versed in classical music, but this album served as an peppy invitation to me as a child. My parents did not expose me to music in the form of, say, piano lessons, but my father did bring home demo albums of all types from the radio station he worked for. I wore out his copy of "The Well-Tempered Synthesizer," ran off with it to college and, over 20 years later, I still have that scuffed and skipping copy today. I waited a long, long time for this to be distributed on CD, and prayers were answered first with the Switched-On Box Set. A much different feel than the Bach albums, this work is my hands-down favorite. If you prefer D. Scarlatti to Wagner, you will love it. Please try it.
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