Switched-On Bach II is an album by Wendy Carlos, released in 1973 on Columbia Records and produced by Carlos and Rachel Elkind. It is a sequel to the 1968 album Switched-On Bach.
In February 1974, Billboard reported that the album had sold over 70,000 copies in its first five weeks of release.
Tracks
All composed by Johann Sebastian Bach (except that the four pieces from the Notebook for Anna Magdalena Bach are either doubtful or spurious):
- Selections from Suite No. 2 in B minor, BWV 1067:
- Badinerie (1:25)
- Minuet (1:20)
- Bourrée (1:40)
- Two-Part Inventions:
- in A minor, BWV 784 (1:20)
- in A major, BWV 783 (1:10)
- "Sheep may safely graze", from Cantata No. 208, BWV 208 (5:00)
- Suite from Anna Magdalena Notebook:
- Musette in D major, (1:10) â possibly by J.S. Bach
- Minuet in G major, BWV Anh. 114 (1:40) â composed by Christian Petzold
- "Bist du bei mir", BWV 508 (2:15) â an arrangement of an opera aria by Gottfried Heinrich Stölzel
- Marche in D major, (1:00) â possibly by Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach or J.S. Bach
- Brandenburg Concerto No. 5 in D major, BWV 1050:
- Allegro (10:45)
- Affetuoso (5:35)
- Allegro (4:50)
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