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Switched on Bach, a platinum selling record - at the time the biggest selling classical record ever.
Switched on Bach 2, The Well Tempered Synthesizer, Switched on Brandenburgs ..... ALL OF IT OUT PRINT.
WTF? This was Columbia, yes? Didn't that get bought by Sony? I've googled for into on this but haven't found any. Wendy's webpage hasn't been updated in 11 years.
It's a mystery and a damn shame.
'A lie is halfway around the world before the truth gets its boots on'. -Mark Twain
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Maybe they didn't sell enough to keep it in print.
But many are available at a reasonable price, if you want them that much.
Because they are all OUT OF PRINT.
Try and keep up.
'A lie is halfway around the world before the truth gets its boots on'. -Mark Twain
I remember now that you tend to be a real problem here.
We're up.
Ivan.
Sorry...
I was looking her up a few days ago, and she does indeed seem to have slid off the face of the Earth. None of her albums were on iTunes as of two years ago. She's 80 now, but her last original work was over two decades ago. It's a real, real shame. This is all reflected in a very short & rather speculative article I found this morning by Esra Saroya Padgett in Cultured magazine from last year. (I can't link to it because I'm using my tablet at the moment.) The article confirms most of what I had gathered independently.I owe a fair amount to Wendy Carlos because I really got into classical music in the early 80s because of a copy of The Well-Tempered Synthesizer my father had swiped from my uncle years before. Then came all of the other Bach albums (with the exception of Bach 2000) and later A Clockwork Orange. I wish she had covered The Goldbergs back in the day. That could have been sublime.
"'Cause when love is gone, there's always justice./And when justice is gone, there's always force./And when force is gone, there's always Mom. Hi Mom!" Laurie Anderson, "O Superman (For Massenet)"
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As far as I know, Sony/Columbia no longer owns the rights to the Wendy Carlos albums. They've all been remastered and reissued on CD by East Side Digital, and I believe Wendy had full control over the remastering as well as their distribution. I have a few of them (SOB, WTS, Sonic Seasonings, and the Clockwork Orange soundtrack), and they all sound terrific. As to why they're out of print, I'm as puzzled as you are.
Russell
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