ENNIO MORRICONE

 

The Man The Music

 

CD 1 (Film Music)

Once upon a time in the West

The Mission

Once upon a time in America

L’eredità Ferramonti

Metti, una sera a cena

Il Maestro e Margherita

Il Prato

Lolita

Rampage

Romanza

Mosè

Per le antiche scale

Cinema Paradiso

Il deserto dei Tartari

Indagine su un cittadino

Gott mit uns

 

CD 2 (Piano Music)

Cane bianco

Stark system

Indagine su un cittadino

Metti, une sera a cena

Il Deserto dei tartari

Le Stagioni della vita

Gott mit uns

Il Potere degli angeli

Love Affair

Studio 1

Studio 2

Studio 3

Studio 4

Rag in frantumi

 

A composer whose name is synonymous with all that is good about film music, Ennio Morricone has had a revolutionary impact on the way that films are scored, especially in his most celebrated genre, the Spaghetti Western.

 

He was born in Rome in 1928 and studied at the Santa Cecilia Conservatory, where he became an accomplished trumpeter. His time is now split between scoring films in his native Italy and in Hollywood.

 

He has over 400 titles to his name – probably the greatest number of credits of any film composer since the late Alfred Newman. His impact on the history of cinema is probably impossible to judge.

 

This recording was made at the Forum Music Village in Rome and gives a broad view of his wide range of compositions.

 

CD 1 is entirely devoted to Morricone’s film music, and consists of a selection of themes from the many scores he composed, specially arranged for this recording for ensembles of different sizes, from duos, to quartets, to full string orchestras.

 

Included on this first CD are popular favourites: Lolita, Cinema Paradiso, The Mission, Romanza and Once Upon a Time in the West.

CD 2 features pieces for piano, performed by Gilda Butta, the virtuoso performer of “The Legend of the pianist on the ocean” and Morricone’s favourite pianist.

 

The piano music is divided into two sections, film music, transcribed by the maestro himself, and compositions originally written for solo piano, Studios 1-4 and Rag in frantumi, which reveal an entirely different side to the artist, as they bear little resemblance to his film music.

 

Warner Classics 2cds 5101123042