Switched-On Brandenburgs

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{{Infobox album

| name = Switched-On Brandenburgs

| type = Studio album

| artist = Wendy Carlos

| cover = Switched_on_brandenburgs.jpg

| alt =

| released = 1980

| recorded = 1968–1980

| venue =

| studio =

| genre = *Electronic

• baroque

| length = 122:34

| label = Columbia

| producer = Rachel Elkind

| prev_title = By Request

| prev_year = 1975

| next_title = The Shining Score Selections

| next_year = 1980

}}

{{Music ratings

| rev1 = AllMusic

| rev1Score = {{rating|3|5}}{{AllMusic|class=album|id=r283128}}

|rev2 = The Rolling Stone Album Guide

|rev2score = {{rating|3|5}}{{cite book |title=The Rolling Stone Album Guide |date=1992 |publisher=Random House |page=111}}

| noprose = yes

}}

Switched-On Brandenburgs is a 1980 double album by Wendy Carlos.{{cite magazine |last1=Paoletta |first1=Michael |title=Vital reissues: Switched-On Boxed Set |magazine=Billboard |date=Nov 13, 1999 |volume=111 |issue=46 |page=23}} It was the seventh album released by Carlos, and the fourth album in her project of classical music which also included Switched-On Bach (1968), The Well-Tempered Synthesizer (1969), and Switched-On Bach II (1974).{{cite magazine |last1=Vail |first1=Mark |title=Wendy Carlos: Switched-On Boxed Set |magazine=Keyboard |date=Mar 2000 |volume=26 |issue=3 |page=8}} It was the first album she released under the name of Wendy Carlos rather than Walter Carlos.

Switched-On Brandenburgs is a collection of all six of Bach's Brandenburg Concertos performed by Carlos on her Moog modular synthesizer. Concerti #1, (most of) #2, and #6 were recorded specifically for the album. Concerti #3, #4, and #5 had been previously released on Switched-On Bach, The Well-Tempered Synthesizer, and Switched-On Bach II respectively (though the second movement of #3 was re-recorded for this release). The first movement of the Second Concerto had been recorded for the album By Request, released in 1975, however an updated mix is on this album.