VA - A Clockwork Orange

Label................: Warner Bros. Records
Catalog#.............: 7599-27256-2
Format...............: CD
Country..............: Germany
Released.............: 18 Apr 1984
Genre................: Classical, Electronic
Style................: Neo-Classical, Modern Classical, Experimental
Notes................: Originally released in 1972; The film's soundtrack comprises classical music and electronic synthetic music composed by Wendy Carlos (credited at the time to Walter Carlos).

Ripper...............: Exact Audio Copy (Secure mode) & HL-DT-STDVD-RAM GSA-H20L
Codec................: Free Lossless Audio Codec (FLAC)
Version..............: reference libFLAC 1.1.3 20061120
Quality..............: Lossless, (avg. compression: 50 %)
Channels.............: Stereo / 44100 HZ / 16 Bit
Tags.................: VorbisComment

Duration.............: 42:35
Number of Songs......: 15
Cover(s) Included....: Front, Back, Disc, Booklet

Tracklisting

01. (02:27) Henry Purcell - Title Music from A Clockwork Orange
02. (05:56) Rossini - The Thieving Magpie (Abridged)
03. (01:49) Walter Carlos and Rachel Elkind - Theme from A Clockwork Orange (Beethoviana)
04. (03:51) Beethoven - Ninth Symphony, Second Movement (Abridged)
05. (07:08) Beethoven - March from A Clockwork Orange (Ninth Symphony, Fourth Movement, Abridged)
06. (01:20) Rossini - William Tell Overture (Abridged)
07. (04:35) Elgar - Pomp And Circumstance March No. I
08. (01:38) Elgar - Pomp And Circumstance March No. IV (Abridged)
09. (04:18) Walter Carlos - Timesteps (Excerpt)
10. (01:47) Terry Tucker - Overture To The Sun
11. (01:04) Erika Eigen - I Want To Marry A Lighthouse Keeper
12. (03:02) Rossini - William Tell Overture (Abridged)
13. (03:10) Beethoven - Suicide Scherzo (Ninth Symphony, Second Movement, Abridged)
14. (01:39) Beethoven - Ninth Symphony, Fourth Movement (Abridged)
15. (02:37) Gene Kelly - Singin' In The Rain

Playing Time.........: 00:46:22
Total Size...........: 238.93 MB

Jerry McCulley @ http://www.amazon.com
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.