Filmworks XXIV: The Nobel Prizewinner

Filmworks XXIV: The Nobel Prizewinner
Soundtrack album by John Zorn
Released	August 24, 2010
Recorded	March-April 2010
Genre	avant-garde, jazz, classical
Length	58:16
Label	Tzadik TZ 7385
Producer	John Zorn
John Zorn chronology
Haborym: Book of Angels Volume 16 (2010) Filmworks XXIV: The Nobel Prizewinner (2010) Ipsissimus (2010)
Filmworks chronology
Filmworks XXIII: El General (2010) Filmworks XXIV: The Nobel Prizewinner (2010) Filmworks XXV: City of Slaughter/Schmatta/Beyond the Infinite (2013)

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

Professional ratings
Review scores
Source	Rating
Allmusic	[2]

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

• Rob Burger - piano
• Trevor Dunn - bass
• Kenny Wollesen - drums, vibraphone

References