A Clockwork Orange (soundtrack) der St. Hedwigskathedrale – Ferenc Fricsay – Irmgard Seefried, Maureen Forrester, Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, Ernst Haefliger". In the novel, Alex is conditioned against all classical music, but in the film, only against L. v. Beethoven's "Ninth Symphony", the soundtrack of a violent Ludovico Technique film. The audience does not see every violent film Alex is forced to view during Ludovico conditioning, yet the symphony's fourth movement is heard. Later, using the symphony's second movement, Mr Alexander, and fellow plotters, impel Alex to attempt suicide. Although two excerpts from Rimsky-Korsakov's "Scheherazade" are heard during Alex's Biblical daydreams while reading the Bible in
A Clockwork Orange: Wendy Carlos's Complete Original Score the new device. According to the album notes, shortly after beginning "Timesteps" Carlos also began reading "A Clockwork Orange", and noticed that the opening themes reflected the feeling of the first chapters of the book. Thereafter the piece developed, in Carlos' own words, into "an autonomous composition with an uncanny affinity for 'clockwork'", the last word being Carlos' way of referring to the book. When the film version was announced Carlos and producer Rachel Elkind made a demonstration recording for Kubrick, who became interested and invited them to meet him in London. The final outcome was not entirely satisfying to