Anthony Burgess composition, among other things attempting a fictional representation of Symphony No.40. Beethoven's Symphony No. 9 features prominently in "A Clockwork Orange" (and in Stanley Kubrick's film version of the novel). Many of his unpublished compositions are listed in "This Man and Music". He wrote a good deal of music for recorder as his son played the instrument. Several of his pieces for recorder and piano including the Sonata No. 1, Sonatina and "Tre Pezzetti" have been included on a major CD release from recorder player John Turner and pianist Harvey Davies; the double album also includes related music from 15
A Clockwork Orange (film) chapter had been deleted on the insistence of its American publisher. He claimed not to have read the complete, original version of the novel until he had almost finished writing the screenplay, and that he never considered using it. The introduction to the 1996 edition of "A Clockwork Orange" says that Kubrick found the end of the original edition too blandly optimistic and unrealistic. In 2000, the film was released on VHS and DVD, both individually and as part of "The Stanley Kubrick Collection" DVD set. Due to negative comments from fans, Warner Bros re-released the film, its image digitally