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Henry Purcell: Music for a while / René Jacobs
Stereo: http://br.youtube.com/watch?v=gSIysEyg6NE&fmt=18
Henry Purcell (1659 – 1695).
I. Music for a while.
Music for a while
Shall all your cares beguile:
Wond’ring how your pains were eas’d
And disdaining to be pleas’d
Till Alecto free the dead
From their eternal bands,
Till the snakes drop from her head,
And the whip from out her hands.
René Jacobs (Countertenor).
Wieland Kuijken (Viola da Gamba).
Konrad Junghanel (Theorbo).
Music for a while is a musical composition by the English Baroque composer Henry Purcell from his incidental music to Oedipus. An ascending ground bass in E minor forms the basis of the piece, with melodic development layered above. The piece exists in multiple arrangements, including for solo keyboard, voice and keyboard, and violin and keyboard.
Duration : 0:3:52
Main Theme – “A Clockwork Orange” Performed by Denise Hewitt
Originally written by Henry Purcell (1659 – 1695) for the Funeral March of Queen Mary II (Died 28th December 1694) – This 17th Century Classic Processional Music was adapted and abridged for the 1971 film “A Clockwork Orange” which was directed by Stanley Kubrick. The electronic synthesized soundtrack was composed by Wendy Carlos, together with Rachel Elkind, including adaptations of several other extremely well known classical music compositions including several parts of Beethoven’s Chorale 9th Symphony. The full soundtrack also includes excerpts from the William Tell Overture, the Thieving Magpie, Land of Hope and Glory, and the well-known 1st and 4th Pomp and Circumstance Marches composed by Sir Edward Elgar.
Wendy Carlos has been one of my musical inspirations and role models since my teenage years with her revolutionary & futuristic Moog Synthesizer adaptations that include “Switched-on-Bach” from way back in 1968, and of course the highly creative soundtrack for “A Clockwork Orange”. More info on music genius Wendy Carlos at: http://www.wendycarlos.com/
This very personal interpretation of Henry Purcell’s – “Music for the Funeral March & Procession of Queen Mary II” (1694) is performed on a 1990s Technics PR60 Electronic Keyboard by amateur transgendered musician – Miss Denise Hewitt.
Duration : 0:2:12
Title Theme – A Clockwork Orange – Played by Denise Hewitt
Originally written by Henry Purcell (1659 – 1695) for the Funeral March of Queen Mary II (Died 28th December 1694) – This 17th Century Classic Processional Funeral March was originally scored for 4 trumpets, and then adapted for the Main Opening Title Theme Music of the 1971 film “A Clockwork Orange” which was directed by Stanley Kubrick. The electronic synthesized soundtrack was orchestrated by Wendy Carlos, together with Rachel Elkind, including adaptations of several other extremely well known classical music compositions including several parts of Beethoven’s Chorale 9th Symphony. The full soundtrack also includes excerpts from the William Tell Overture, the Thieving Magpie, Land of Hope and Glory, and the well-known 1st and 4th Pomp and Circumstance Marches composed by Sir Edward Elgar.
Wendy Carlos has been one of my musical inspirations and role models since my teenage years with her revolutionary & futuristic Moog Synthesizer adaptations that include “Switched-on-Bach” from way back in 1968, and of course the highly creative soundtrack for “A Clockwork Orange”. More info on music genius Wendy Carlos at: http://www.wendycarlos.com/
This very personal interpretation of Henry Purcell’s – “Music for the Funeral March & Procession of Queen Mary” (1694) is performed on a vintage 1990s Technics PR60 Electronic Keyboard by amateur transgendered musician – Miss Denise Hewitt.
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Note: Anthony Burgess called his invented language in his 1962 Clockwork Orange Book – Nadsat – and is based upon words from the slavic group of languages such as Russian.
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Duration : 0:3:19