12" LP contains these selections: Three Dances from the Nutcracker Suite; Dialogues for Piano and Two Loudspeakers; Episodes for Piano and Electronic Sound; Geodesic Dance; Brandenburg Concerto #2 (1st mvmt); Little Fugue in g minor; What's New Pussycat; Eleanor Rigby; Wedding March; Pompous Circumstances (variations and fantasy on a theme by Elgar). Bonus 7-inch mini LP includes these selections: Excerpts from Sonic Seasonings (vocalise by Rachel Elkind); Brandenburg Concerto #3 (1st mvmt); Russian Dance; Eleanor Rigby; Marche in D Major (Bach); Sonata in G Major (Scarlatti); William Tell Overture.
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This listing was not accurate. It did not contain the mini LP. According to the seller, she tells me that she had to use amazons description of the product. So I am disappointed. I bought this record for the bonus mini LP and never got it.
Reviewed in the United States on December 19, 2014
Wendy Carlos (formerly Walter) is a giant in both the electronic and classical music genres. Her 1968 COLUMBIA LP of SWITCHED-ON BACH (MS 7194), performed on a multi-tracked, souped-up Moog synthesizer, was a surprise hit. Selling over a half-million copies and staying on Billboard's album chart a year, this triple Grammy winner introduced to many initiates the Baroque era music of Johann Sebastian Bach.
Wendy's diverse score for the Stanley Kubrick film A CLOCKWORK ORANGE (UK-1971) included her masterpiece in disorienting electronica, "Timesteps."
From 1975, COLUMBIA's gray Masterworks album BY REQUEST (M 32088) is an eclectic mix of classic and modern music that includes two Carlos student works: "Dialogues for Piano and Two Loudspeakers" (1963), her earliest acknowledged composition, and "Episodes for Piano and Electronic Sound" (1964). Pianist on these unusually experimental pieces is Phillip Ramey.
Although not apparent here, the original "Geodesic Dance" dabbles in quadraphonic sound.
The three Nutcracker Suite dances that open this set were Wendy's first foray into the Romantic genre. The complex scoring required 40 tracks. Bach's "Little" Fugue was created for an ultimately abandoned TV project. The Brandenburg selection deemphasizes clarino trumpet, which gives the piece an interesting feel.
1967's early Moog creation of "What's New, Pussycat?" was Wendy's first to be done on an eight track recorder. "Eleanor Rigby" is from 1970. The Lohengrin Bridal March realization was a gift for two Carlos friends who were about to be married.
The tour-de-force "Pompous Circumstances" was specifically created as a closer for this program. A lengthy often amusing introduction to Elgar's march takes a less familiar theme of his and subjects it to the styles of many composers, from Bach to Joplin. This gem of the album proves quite complex, but rewarding to listeners open to a unique interpretation of what otherwise is thought of as a majestic, if a bit stodgy, work.
SIDE ONE [5:20] Three Dances From "Nutcracker Suite" - Tchaikovsky Russian Dance / Dance of the Sugar-Plum Fairy / Dance of the Reed-Pipes [4:00] Dialogues for Piano and Two Loudspeakers [5:50] Episodes for Piano and Electronic Sound [3:21] Geodesic Dance (Electronic Etude) [5:50] Brandenburg Concerto #2 in F Major (1st Movement) - Bach
SIDE TWO [3:44] "Little" Fugue in G Minor - Bach [2:05] What's New, Pussycat? - Bacharach/David [2:06] Eleanor Rigby - Lennon/McCartney [1:12] Wedding March (based on the Bridal Chorus from "Lohengrin") - Elgar [12:00] Pompous Circumstances
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