A Clockwork Orange: Wendy Carlos's Complete Original Score

This is good, but it wouldn't play on my older CD player. Works fine on newer equipment. Haven't tried it in a car. It's got extra content - mainly an archived version of Carlos's website from the mid-90s as well as the music.

The opening score to this film to this very day feels unique and sinister. The rest of the music is superb as well. But that opening score is still just a unique piece of music that I haven't heard anything else like it. If you listen to this soundtrack while reading the book you are going to be in for a treat.

I purchased the album format many years ago. I appreciated the soundtrack when I was 10 years old and I continue to love listening to Carlos’ music today. An electronic performance of glorious music composed by Beethoven and original music compositions that have engaged and inspired my imagination for decades. I loved the original score at the time of the release when the film was rated X, and I was too young to view the film. As an adult, I viewed the film with an established love for the music featured in the most excellent film adaptation by Kubrick from the dystopian novel by Burgess. I love the music - eventually, I purchased the movie soundtrack too. I’ve always wanted the original score on Compact Disc. At 56, I own my beloved old “droog” to “hear all proper” on CD. (FYI - For those who love the original complete score album cover art, it is included.)

It's great to hear the actual vision of this artist for this movie soundtrack. It's great to have the extra tracks that werent included in the original or the movie Just fantastic!

A Clockwork OrangeDirector: Stanley KubrickWriters: Stanley Kubrick (screenplay) Anthony Burgess (novel)Star: Malcolm McDowellSoundtrack: Wendy Carlos and othersRatings: X (NC-17 originally)This "soundtrack"is not the original film soundtrack, rather it is Wendy Carlos' COMPLETE ORIGINAL soundtrack. Kubrick commissioned a soundtrack. Carlos delivered a complete original soundtrack. Kubrick edited Carlos' work to fit his film. Kubrick's film's soundtrack is brilliant (and should be in your collection).Wendy Carlos' complete submission is a separate work of art and should be approached as such. She absolutely dominates her concept of the music that would illuminate Kubrick's film of Burgess' novel. It totally works.If you like soundtracks, Wendy Carlos, or electronic music this is right in your wheel house. Obtain immediately.

I saw the film in the cinema when it first came out, and bought the LP of the soundtrack. "Timesteps" made a huge impression. My copy of the LP was lost in a move about 20 years ago, but I was able to find this via Wendy's website. This remastered version is a distinct improvement, both in quality and content since it has extra tracks. Amazingly "Timesteps" and "Country Lane" sound as fresh as they did 40 odd years ago.

I've been wanting to purchase this for sometime.I finally broke down and bought it on Amazon, read many reviews, most stated not to buy.The price is a bit much, but if you liked the original soundtrack you need to give this a try.If Kubrick asked Carlos to use her music you have to give in an give it a listen.I myself like the original soundtrack because it it so zany.I must say I like Wendy Carlos Complete Original Score just as much as the soundtrack.Don't wait too long to purchase it because price keeps increasing !Try and get other works by Wendy Carlos or listen to them!

The pure blend of sound Wendy put into this is absolutely marvelous! There are a handful of deviations (lasting only a few bars here and there) from the score heard in the film. Some are more and some are less, but it all wraps into a wonderful track worthy of a Kubrick picture. It also makes a great background for reckless/angry driving. But I of course, being a law abiding citizen follow the law and would never ever go barreling down a backroad with Timesteps blaring, laughing, one hand on the wheel. With that being said, I love the entire album and anyone who enjoys Kubrick, music, and pretty much anything cool will like this album as well.

Alongside the music, which is excellent, the CD also includes a digital trove of Carlos' words, artwork and photographs -- a very rewarding digital deep-dive.

Enhanced CDs like this combine two discs images on a single medium. The two data sets are written as two 'sessions': a music CD image (populated with mp3 files); and a Windows file system carrying a copy of the Wendy Carlos website. What you see/hear is determined by the tool that you use to read the disc. A CD player, or a player program such as VLC, will see the music disc. Windows File Explorer will see a data disc and open the contents in your default web browser.Moving on to the music. This is a collection of tracks that Wendy Carlos intended for use in Stanley Kurbick's film 'Clockwork Orange'. However, not all of it made it to there so there are tracks here that you may never have heard before. The disc starts with one of these, a 13 minute composition by Wendy Carlos entitled 'Timesteps' that could blow both your mind a your speakers!Assuming that you survice the first track, you are likely to marvel at what follows. There are nine other shorter pieces. The sounds are rich. Lots of bass, so you'll need your woofer, with highlights in the upper registers. (I find Wendy's music easiest to describe in visual terms). There's a mass of detail that echos across voices and spatial locations. There's even a version of 'Sining in the Rain' tucked away in one of the final tracks complete with a vocoded lyric, the sounds of rain and thunder. It is this detail that keeps me hooked to these tracks. You can never be certain of what is coming next. This is music as entertainment rather than music as a high art, although there can be no doubt as to Wendy's artistry.For once the cover notes merit special mention. The first half is written by Chris Nelson who uses the language of the Droogs to get the reader into the context of the music. It gives a third party view of how the music was developed by Wendy Carlos and her producer Rachel Elkind. The second half is Wendy's retrospective on the project. Close to the end of the note she comments "I'm often amazed how much music we were able to squeeze out of such meager, recalcitrant tools back then". Nearly half a century on, my comment must be I stand in awe, thank you for the effort.

このCDは彼女の才能が詰まってます。特に「タイムステップス」は聞いただけ感動します。勿論、その他の曲も素晴らしいです。もう買って損ないでしょう。

The album was first released by CBS in 1972, shortly after Warner's official soundtrack album. The electronic-only offering contained two tracks not featured on the soundtrack and the only complete version of "Timesteps". The sound quality was also superior, particularly at the low-end of the audio spectrum.In 1998 Carlos remastered her electronic score for CD. New to this release are two bonus tracks - charming but slight- that could not be included on the original vinyl release due to space contraints. It all sounds excellent and the CD booklet contains the original liner notes and cover art as well as the story of the remastering and the bonus tracks.If you cherished the CBS vinyl album, then this CD is an essential purchase.For those unfamiliar with the soundtrack but who know Carlos' other work or just love electronic music a la Moog, it is an essential listen. I believe this is Carlos' best work, certainly the pinnacle of her collaborations with producer Rachel Elkind (who memorably provided the vocoded singing on "Beethoven's Ninth"). The music combines several original compositions with sophisticated and spirited realisations of "Beethoven's Ninth" Symphony and Rossini's "Thieving Magpie" among others.The original compositions are the making of this CD. "Timesteps", was inspired by Carlos' reading of the novel "A Clockwork Orange" and consists of a melange of short, atmospheric pieces - melodic, rhythmic, disturbing, surging and ebbing in turn. "Country Lane" is a shorter piece and was composed (but ultimately not used) for the scene in the film where Alex is taken into the country and savagely beaten by his former 'droogs' - now policemen. The music is rhythmic and dramatic and incorporates musical motifs from other scenes in the film. Particularly effective is the mocking, decending motif from "Thieving Magpie" and the creepy use of a vocoded "Singing' in the Rain" over a synth generated thunderstorm as Alex returns to the scene of an earlier crime where retribution awaits him.Wonderful.

From the magnificent and beautiful unabridged opening soundscape to the intricately synthesized versions of classical music, some of which didn't make it to the big screen, this album is an absolute joy.The pieces are presented in a way which emphasises the recurring musical themes throughout the score and the whole is much more than the OST. This is what Carlos wanted the audience to hear and it is much more rewarding than the music which cinema goers in part received.For anyone who enjoyed the film or who has an interest in electronic music this is essential listening. As an electronic musician I am in awe of the effort and ingenuity that Carlos and her collaborators expended in producing this work.If you want the OST buy the OST but this album is money well spent.