Stanley Kubrick's Clockwork Orange (1971 Film)
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Edition: Music CDAudio: English (Original Language)
Format: Soundtrack
CD Release Date: 1990-10-25
Music Label: Warner Bros. Pictures / Sunset Strategic Marketing (SSM)
Soundtracks:
- Title Music From A Clockwork Orange - Walter Carlos
- The Thieving Magpie (Abridged) - A Clockwork Orange ST
- Theme from A Clockwork Orange (Beethoviana) - Walter Carlos
- Ninth Symphony, Second Movement (Abridged) - A Clockwork Orange ST D
- March From A Clockwork Orange (Ninth Symphony, Fourth Movement, Abridged) - Walter Carlos
- William Tell Overture (Abridged) - Walter Carlos
- Pomp and Circumstance March No.1 - Stanley Kubrick
- Pomp And Circumstance March No.4 (Abridged) - Stanley Kubrick
- Timesteps (Excerpt) - Walter Carlos Listen Listen
- Overture To The Sun - Terry Tucker
- I Want To Marry A Lighthouse Keeper - Ericka Eigen
- William Tell Overture (Abridged) - A Clockwork Orange ST
- Suicide Scherzo (Ninth Symphony, Second Movement, Abridged) - Walter Carlos
- Ninth Symphony, Fourth Movement (Abridged) - A Clockwork Orange ST
- Singin' in the Rain - Gene Kelly
Music reviews of Stanley Kubrick's Clockwork Orange (1971 Film)
Music Review: Prisoner 6 double-five 3-2-1
Rating: 5 Stars
The soundtrack album of CLOCKWORK ORANGE, even with its simple (and supposedly) outdated Wendy Carlos recordings, holds up far better than the actual film has over these 38 years. This story takes place in the 1990s, and we all know that today's world is nothing like Anthony Burgess' dismal and nightmarish vision . . . don't we?
Many of this soundtrack's classical selections are by Herbert von Karajan and the Berlin Philharmonic. Their spirited Beethoven and Rossini interpretations remain some of the very best ever recorded.
An excerpt of Wendy's "Timesteps" is the most compelling piece here. In the film, this stark aural collage is background to Alex's behavior modification. In order to shorten his prison sentence, the violent sociopath agrees to a course of reprogramming. He's made chemically ill while forced to view scenes of rapine and bloodshed. The choking sickness can only be arrested by replacing any natural criminal urges with passive thoughts.
It's hard to listen to "Overture To The Sun" without picturing the spotlighted naked girl who tempts an on-display Alex into a state of unwellness that he likens to "wanting to snuff it." His ability to act brutally has been taken from him, ironically through a violently imposed trigger reflex. The subsequent events precipitating Alex's restoration into a fully NON-functional member of society beset him in a fashion eerily similar to the chaos he once left in his violent wake.
The stark images and perversities of "Orange" tend to stay with a person. Perhaps watching Kubrick's A CLOCKWORK ORANGE has in some way "programmed" the viewer too, by desensitizing us to the madness that's all around.
Maybe the film holds up better than I thought. I must have a glass of choko moloko and reconsider. Meanwhile, you may buy this CD with confidence and listen to lovely, lovely Ludwig van . . .
Description of Stanley Kubrick's Clockwork Orange (1971 Film)
Stanley Kubrick's demanding perfectionism in all aspects of the filmmaking process has led to some of the most memorable soundtracks of the modern era. Kubrick's taste for the classics led to his scrapping Alex North's original score for 2001: A Space Odyssey in lieu of the "temporary" tracks he had used for editing, turning Richard Strauss' Also Sprach Zarathustra into an unlikely 20th-century pop icon. For his 1971 adaptation of Anthony Burgess's cautionary future-shocker, Kubrick once again turned to the classics. Malcolm McDowell's protagonist Droog Alex's taste for Beethoven is given a nice tweaking by Moog pioneer Walter (now Wendy) Carlos's synthesized take on the glorious Ninth Symphony. Some have complained that the now-primitive electronics involved give it a dated feel. Disturbingly--and effectively--other-worldly is more like it. Kubrick also imbues repertory standards by Rossini and Elgar with dark, frequently hilarious irony, and makes Gene Kelly's sunny reading of "Singin' In The Rain" the underscore to an all-too-accurate prediction of societal nightmares to come. --Jerry McCulleyGeneral CDs
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