Wendy Carlos - A Clockwork Orange: Wendy Carlos's Complete Original Score
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Artist: Wendy CarlosBrand: CARLOS,WENDY
Edition: Music CD
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language)
Format: Enhanced, Original recording remastered, Soundtrack
Published: 1998
CD Release Date: 1998-11-03
Music Label: East Side Digital
Soundtracks:
- 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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Free Music Review: Pioneering and enjoyable electronic music
Hit: 5 Stars
I used to have this recording on LP - the cover was a marvellous collage (the new cover is slightly naff) - and it was a very fine companion to the regular A Clockwork Orange soundtrack, which featured music which didn't fit together very well outside the context of the film.
Wendy Carlos's complete score is very satisfying and it still stands up well today (2006). I think that the standout tracks on this album are 'Timesteps' and 'Country Lane', which are powerful original compositions. Both tracks display a remarkable musical imagination.
Timesteps is a freely composed fantasia which takes us from place to place in the mind of the composer. There are moments which sound like jungle music, others which sound like sentimental film music with an ocean in the background and another second with an unnaturally sweet heavenly female choir sound. It is a unique composition and quite superb. It is a pity Wendy Carlos didn't write more music as inspired as this piece - perhaps she did and I haven't heard them!?
Country Lane is also very impressive. It is a piece which demonstrates very cruel emotions very well. The use of the ancient "Dies Irae" tune, also used very effectively by Liszt and Berlioz, "vocoded" is a brilliant touch. In fact, the vocoder was used very effectively by Wendy Carlos in Timesteps, Country Land and the Fourth Movement of the 9th Symphony of Beethoven on this disc. Perhaps the first significant use of this instrument on a recording? Kraftwerk and Zap went on to use the instrument in more popular musical styles.
The choral section of the fourth movement of Beethoven's 9th symphony recorded by Wendy Carlos is strangely beautiful and beguiling. Sort of a "reification" of a dreamt interpretation of the music? Perhaps.....
The purely "instrumental" works and Classical and Classically inspired works on this album are very interesting and represent some very effective use of the synthesizer. Of course, it would be easy for many people with a computer and some other equipment to do their own electronica versions of these works today. However, Wendy Carlos had a very personal style and understanding of this music. Her version of the 3rd, 4th and 5th Brandenburg Concertos still entertain me today, even though I am really a devotee of the HIP approach to this music.
I dare say that Wendy Carlos introduced a lot of young people to the music of Beethoven and to the idea of using synthesizers. I remember reading that Phil Oakey, from The Human League, said that Wendy Carlos was a major influence on him.
A Clockwork Orange: Wendy Carlos's Complete Original Score Poster
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Artist: CARLOS,WENDY
Title: CLOCKWORK ORANGE
Street Release Date: 04/28/2000
Genre: NEW AGE
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