Filmworks XXIV: The Nobel Prizewinner explained

Filmworks XXIV: The Nobel Prizewinner
Type:Soundtrack
Artist:John Zorn
Cover:Filmworks XXIV.jpg
Released:August 24, 2010
Recorded:March–April 2010
Genre:avant-garde, jazz, classical
Length:58:16
Label:Tzadik TZ 7385
Producer:John Zorn
Chronology:John Zorn
Prev Year:2010
Next Title:Ipsissimus
Next Year:2010

Filmworks XXIV: The Nobel Prizewinner is a soundtrack album by American composer John Zorn released on Zorn's own label, Tzadik, in 2010 featuring music written and recorded for Dutch film director Timo Veltkamp's's De Nobelprijswinnaar (2010).[1]

Reception

The Allmusic review by Thom Jurek awarded the album 4 stars stating "Perhaps the highest compliment to pay a recording like this is not only to claim that it stands on its own as a piece of music -- because, as in all of Zorn's scores, it does -- but moreover that it is so utterly, cleverly and aesthetically engaging, it creates in the listener the desire to see the film and experience how this music functions within it".[2]

Track listing

All compositions by John Zorn

  1. "The Nobel Prize Winner" - 4:15
  2. "Writer's Block (Ilse's Theme)" - 4:17
  3. "The Depraved City" - 5:09
  4. "Annabel" - 3:31
  5. "Our In-House Dostoevsky" - 4:37
  6. "The Search" - 1:56
  7. "Dénouement" - 3:24
  8. "Door to Door" - 5:04
  9. "Suicidal Tendency" - 1:56
  10. "Fyodor and Annabel" - 5:10
  11. "Plagiarism" - 2:52
  12. "Moral and Immoral (take 1)" - 3:08
  13. "Ghost of a Guilty Conscience" - 4:40
  14. "Joachim West" - 5:02
  15. "Moral and Immoral (take 2)" - 3:06

Personnel

Notes and References

  1. http://www.tzadik.com/index.php?catalog=7385 Tzadik catalogue
  2. Jurek, T. Allmusic Review accessed July 29, 2011