Chaplin, C: Modern Times
The Complete Film Music. Score Restoration by Timothy Brock
NDR Radiophilharmonie, Timothy Brock
The quirks of its idiosyncratic, unschooled composer are easily audible…yet the music's kaleidoscopic jumble, each fragment time to match a specific image and mood, carries its own overwhelming...
Chaplin, C: Modern Times
The Complete Film Music. Score Restoration by Timothy Brock
NDR Radiophilharmonie, Timothy Brock
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The quirks of its idiosyncratic, unschooled composer are easily audible…yet the music's kaleidoscopic jumble, each fragment time to match a specific image and mood, carries its own overwhelming...
About
Everybody knows that Charlie Chaplin was one of film history’s greatest original geniuses. However, the fact that he was a gifted inventor of melodies and the meticulous musical dramaturge of his films is known only to very few. After Modern Times, he went on to compose the music for all his other films, including The Great Dictator, Limelight, and A King in New York. The complex, innovative music for Modern Times, composed in 1935, represents the high point of his compositional career.
Contents and tracklist
- NDR Radiophilharmonie
- Timothy Brock
Chaplin, C:
Lunchtime / Charlie's Breakdown / Worker's Rally (Orch. E. Powell & D. Raksin)
Work length11:21
- NDR Radiophilharmonie
- Timothy Brock
- NDR Radiophilharmonie
- Timothy Brock
Chaplin, C:
Tragedy at the Demonstration / Out of Jail, Out of Job / Chance Meeting (Orch. E. Powell & D. Raksin)
Work length15:24
- NDR Radiophilharmonie
- Timothy Brock
- NDR Radiophilharmonie
- Timothy Brock
Chaplin, C:
The Next Morning / Shack of Paradise / Race to Factory Gate (Orch. E. Powell & D. Raksin)
Work length7:11
- NDR Radiophilharmonie
- Timothy Brock
Chaplin, C:
Mechanic's Assistant / Lunch Break / On Strike / Gamin's Dance Sequence (Orch. E. Powell & D. Raksin)
Work length8:14
- NDR Radiophilharmonie
- Timothy Brock
- NDR Radiophilharmonie
- Timothy Brock
- NDR Radiophilharmonie
- Timothy Brock
- NDR Radiophilharmonie
- Timothy Brock
Awards and reviews
December 2015
The quirks of its idiosyncratic, unschooled composer are easily audible…yet the music's kaleidoscopic jumble, each fragment time to match a specific image and mood, carries its own overwhelming personality, while the tunes themselves are obstinately memorable…the NDR displays plenty of comic and sentimental panache
