A Clockwork Orange: Wendy Carlos's Complete Original Score | Wendy Carlos

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	A Clockwork Orange: Wendy Carlos's Complete Original Score Wendy Carlos Warner Bros. Pictures, 1998 average customer review:based on 42 reviews view larger image
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highly recommended

One of the most satisfying soundtrack "companion" pieces ever released, this collaboration between synthesist Wendy Carlos and producer Rachel Elkind manages to both logically extend and credibly expand on director Stanley Kubrick's masterfully conceived Clockwork Orange musical ethos. That shouldn't be surprising, as the pair was largely responsible for initiating those concepts with the music they'd begun as a follow-up to their successful, synthesizer-pioneering Switched on Bach collection. "Timesteps," a rich, wildly evocative, 13+ minute electronic sound and music collage, was based on impressions gleaned from Anthony Burgess's original novel (excerpts of it are liberally scattered throughout the film), while an abridged version of the fourth movement of Beethoven's Ninth Symphony was an early experiment in vocal synthesis that ended up as one of the film's key motifs. Also featured here are synthesized versions of music Kubrick ultimately chose to use in orchestral form (Rossini's "The Thieving Magpie") as well as original Carlos/Elkind electronic compositions ("Orange Minuet," "Biblical Daydreams," and "Country Lane") that ended up on the cutting-room floor. Composed on primitive, monophonic analog instruments (which could play only one at a time!) long supplanted by generations of digital revolution, this work has a brooding otherworldly quality all its own. As our favorite Droog would say: "It was like a bird of rarest spun metal, or like silvery wine flowing in a space ship, gravity all nonsense now." --Jerry McCulley

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Scary, yet wonderful! A real horrorshow!

This album contains all the tracks that were originally suppose to be in the movie. However, Kubrick chose to alternate between the synth versions and classic orchestra. I think that if all these versions made by Wendy were in the movie, in my opinion, the film would be even better!

Check especially out the extended version of timesteps which is scary and really intense, and makes you wonder why only the intro of this song was used in the movie.. And country lane which is a fantastic, but really scary piece of work. At the end of the song, a voice sings the beginning of singing in the rain through a vocoder. The first time I heard it, I felt I was in the Clockwork Orange universe and it gave me a real horrorshow!

If you like the soundtrack, you will simply love this! (In my opinion, this is the TRUE soundtrack).

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Historical

This is one of the first works with computers and syntetyzers.
In that time , the "voices" of the 9 symphonie of Beethoven was spectacular.
It`s a good way to know the "old Ludvig Van" for childrens.

A Clockwork Orange

Great work but not so good in the recording quality. Finally Timesteps in the complete version.
Dario Viecelli

Not the Original Recordings

After listening to this several times, something struck me as rather odd. It seemed some of the songs just didn't sound the same as the cues used in the film. I know these are from the digital masters, but I am positive they are not the same performances Carlos submitted to Kubrick. These are "re-performances" whereas the artist has performed the same music again on the same instruments, probably because they didn't have the rights to re-release the music again if it became the property of the movie studio. This is akin to how some film scores were re-recorded by orchestras and released, because the rights couldn't be secured (ala Blade Runner, and numerous Star Wars performances). While it's great to have the entire electronic score as it was originally intended, I'll only keep the tracks not present on the original soundtrack release.

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Tracks
Timesteps | March From A Clockwork Orange (Beethoven: Ninth Symphony: Foruth Movement, Abridged) | Title Music From A Clockwork Orange (From Purcell's Music For The Funeral Of Quenn Mary) | La Gazza Ladra (Rossini's The Thieving Magpie, Abridged) | Theme From A Clockwork Orange (Beethoviana) | Ninth Symphony: Second Movement (Scherzo) | William Tell Ouverture, Abridged | Orange Minuet | Biblical Daydreams | Country Lane

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