Chaplin/Raksin: Tiempos Modernos [Bso]
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Opinión Chaplin, a curious and instinctual musician, was always looking for tips. As a kid in London, he plucked the cello and played the violin. By 1930 he was writing incidental music for most of his films and in 1935 he insisted on composing the full 87-minute score to Modern Times. After that, he was smitten. Every subsequent Chaplin film was composed by the great comedian. What kind of composer was he? In a word, eclectic. When serious he sounds a bit like Hindemith. More frolicsome, he filches waltzes from Johann Strauss and Korngold. Hollywoods master of movies scores, Alfred Newman, was never far from his elbow. Chaplin s music from Modern Times recorded here in full for the first time by the NDR Radiophilharmonie under conductor Timothy Brock has the benefit of its author's frenetic screen energy and the deficit of his butterfly attention span. The music flits from one flowering to the next, pausing by way of Happy Birthday and other commonplace tunes. The scoring, for an ensemble that includes four saxophones, two xylophones, marimba and half a hardware store, is frankly bizarre. You may not last the whole record without breaking for a drink. The invention, however, is ultimately infectious. You keep wanting to know what Charlie will do next. (In the end, he gets the girl.) *** RECORD OF THE WEEK --Sinfini music, 10/8/15 A fine achievement, matching in speed and precision as well as eloquence the original soundtrack conducted by Alfred Newman, no less. Gramophone,Oct'15 /// Probably everyone remembers the first time they saw a Charlie Chaplin movie. Whether it was a Little Tramp short film, watched as a young child, or a discovery later in life, the magic of Chaplin stays in the memory for a long time. My first Chaplin was Modern Times, at the age of 24. As an adult, the jokes are still funny, the Tramp's antics are still brilliantly performed and the romance is still heart-tugging. What really shocked me, and maybe what made me a Chaplin lover for life, was the music. Modern Times was halfway over before I realized that its writer, director and star was also its composer, and then admiration teetered into awe. This brand-new recording of the Modern Times original score confirms it: the Tramp was an extremely fine composer. --Music Web, Dec'15 NDR Radiophilharmonic displays plenty of comic and sentimental panache of its own as Charlie's tramp, in our eye's mind, gets caught in the factory machine's cogs or enjoys a tender moment with Paulette Goddard's gamine. Performance **** Recording **** --BBC Music Magazine, Dec'15