Recorded in 1969 using a Moog modular synthesizer, here is Hans Wurman's splendid version of Mozart's Eine Kleine Nachtmusik. Early synth music doesn't get much better than this.
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@chrismarx110 жыл бұрын
These are great tracks, and this is an amazing album, even when compared with Carlos. The creativity taken with the pieces, the dark tones only a moog could make, they're truly uplifting-
It's interesting to compare Wurman's version of the "Romanze" here with the same piece as performed by Mike Hankinson on "The Unusual Classical Synthesizer" LP from 1972. A modular Moog vs a VCS3...although the sonic approach is very similar, the level of overall refinement here is striking compared to the lo-fi "university music department" aesthetic of Hanky's recording. The VCS3, cool little synth as it was, was definitely not up to the task of tackling Mozart, Bach, et. al. as convincingly as a Moog...especially with what sounds like a very rudimentary recording setup (four tracks according to the liner notes). Wurman's "Romanze" *sounds* professional; Hanky's sounds like it was dashed off in one evening using whatever gear he could borrow on short notice.
@longtanandhandsomeasmr8568 жыл бұрын
This is my favorite installment of Bach
@longtanandhandsomeasmr8568 жыл бұрын
It's in german for a reason, bud. Get your facts straight.
@longtanandhandsomeasmr8568 жыл бұрын
hohoho
@longtanandhandsomeasmr8568 жыл бұрын
Ignorance is bliss
@miguelmouta11 жыл бұрын
Where ? At the circus picadilly ?
@krisspaddy11 жыл бұрын
So bland compared to Carlos's genius. Sounds like primary school evening club stuff.
@mostbirnen40303 жыл бұрын
Did she play that, where can we hear it ?!
@moogyboy63 жыл бұрын
I think the secret sauce that set Wendy's recordings apart was a custom feature that only she had: a prototype keyboard with aftertouch and velocity sensitivity, which allowed piano-like expression. I believe it was the only one in existence at the time. The standard production Moog keyboard had simple on/off response like an electronic organ, which is what every Moog player other than Wendy used on all those switched-on albums. Result: that curiously stiff and mechanical (or as you say, bland) sound that plagued so many of them. The relatively unsubtle and cartoonish synth patches those guys used--total cheeseville by today's standards--probably didn't help matters either. I doubt many would-be Moogists of the time had either the technical skill or the patience to coax the kind of expression from a stock synthesizer that Wendy Carlos had in abundance (she was, after all, Bob Moog's main beta tester and helped design several of the core modules).