Sunday surprise 4: from two Kubrick Soundtracks
[ by Charles Cameron — more works of beauty, and a wild DoubleQuote source ]
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From Stanley Kubrick‘s film, Barry Lyndon, here’s Handel‘s Sarabande…
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Kubrick’s A Clockwork Orange featured a synthesizer cover by Walter — later Wendy — Carlos, of Henry Purcell‘s Music for the Funeral of Queen Mary:
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Here, for comparison, is a terrific rendering of the Purcell original, from Clare College, Cambridge:
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September 15th, 2013 at 9:27 pm
Two of my absolute favorite films.
September 15th, 2013 at 9:50 pm
I’m glad, Suzanne. I’m a great admirer of Barry Lyndon — which I saw, complete with 20 minute “interval” on a widescreen in London when it first came out — as is my son of Clockwork Orange. I need to see CO again, to find out whether I like it (and BL again, too, for the sheer joy of it).
September 17th, 2013 at 2:44 pm
Splendid post, Charles. Fine music for my morning.
I think I had one or more recordings of each of these at one time.
September 17th, 2013 at 8:34 pm
Thanks, Bryan — and thanks for your video-in-response, which will make it’s appearance here in the next “Sunday Surprise” post here shortly, insha’Allah and the creek don’t rise.