Brian Wilson was one of the Beach Boys’ songwriters, appearing as a founding member of the surf rock group. Here’s what this composer said about one of the ‘most electrifying’ albums he’s ever heard.

“Plugging into the Steinway of the future” declared the American magazine Newsweek in 1968 about Switched-On Bach, Wendy Carlos’ first album of J S Bach’s music realised on a synthesizer. The album ...

Mark Micchelli considers his new album “Glitched-On Bop” to be a spiritual successor to “Switched-On Bach,” a 1968 album by Wendy Carlos that was the first to use synthesizers to create classical ...