A Clockwork Orange (soundtrack)

A Clockwork Orange
soundtrack album
Released	1972
Recorded	1971
Genre	Electronic music
Length	15 tracks
Label	Columbia Records
Producer	Wendy Carlos
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A Clockwork Orange is a film soundtrack album featuring music used to open Duran Duran tour shows, released by Columbia Records in 1972.

About the album and film

This is the soundtrack to the 1971 darkly satirical science fiction film adaptation of Anthony Burgess' 1962 novel of the same name. The film concerns Alex (Malcolm McDowell), a charismatic, psychopathic delinquent whose pleasures are classical music (especially Beethoven), rape, and so-called 'ultra-violence'. The cinematic adaptation was produced, directed, and written by Stanley Kubrick.

The music is a thematic extension of Alex's (and the viewer's) psychological conditioning. The soundtrack of A Clockwork Orange comprises classical music and electronic synthetic music composed by Wendy Carlos. Some of the music is heard only as excerpts, e.g. Edward Elgar's Pomp and Circumstance March No. 1 (aka Land of Hope and Glory). "March from A Clockwork Orange" was the first recorded song featuring a vocoder for the singing; synthpop bands often cite it as their inspiration.

During a Duran Duran promotional video called Pop Trash at the Duran Duran Hotel, singer Simon Le Bon said, when he was 14 years old this was one of the first records he bought. The album's first track "The Funeral of Queen Mary" later opened Duran Duran shows during 2008 and 2009.

Track listing

1. "The Funeral of Queen Mary" - Wendy Carlos
2. "The Thieving Magpie" (Rossini, Abridged) - A Deutsche Grammophon Recording
3. "Theme from A Clockwork Orange" (Beethoviana) - Wendy Carlos
4. "Ninth Symphony, Second Movement" (Abridged) - A Deutsche Grammophon Recording conducted by Ferenc Fricsay
5. "March from A Clockwork Orange" (Ninth Symphony, Fourth Movement, Abridged) - Wendy Carlos and Rachel Elkind
6. "William Tell Overture" (Rossini, Abridged) - Wendy Carlos
7. "Pomp and Circumstance March No. 1" - Sir Edward Elgar
8. "Pomp and Circumstance March No. IV" (Abridged) - Sir Edward Elgar
9. "Timesteps" (Excerpt) - Wendy Carlos
10. "Overture to the Sun" - Terry Tucker
11. "I Want to Marry a Lighthouse Keeper" - Erika Eigen
12. "William Tell Overture" (Abridged) - A Deutsche Grammophon Recording
13. "Suicide Scherzo" (Ninth Symphony, Second Movement, Abridged) - Wendy Carlos
14. "Ninth Symphony, Fourth Movement" (Abridged) - A Deutsche Grammophon Recording
15. "Singin' in the Rain" - Gene Kelly