Once Upon a Time: The Essential Ennio Morricone Film Music Collection Album Pick

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  • Le Pistole Non Discutono [Original Soundtrack]
  • Amanti d'Oltretomba (Nightmare Castle) [Original Motion Picture Soundtrack]
  • La Trappola Scatta a Beirut [Original Soundtrack]
  • Menage all' Italiana (Marriage Italian Style) [Original Soundtrack]
  • The Good, the Bad and the Ugly [Original Motion Picture Soundtrack]
  • Come Imparai ad Amare le Donne [Original Motion Picture Soundtrack]
  • Il Buono, Il Brutto, Il Cattivo [Original Motion Picture Soundtrack]
  • I Crudeli [Original Motion Picture Soundtrack]
  • A Fistful of Dollars [Original Soundtrack]
  • Faccia a Faccia (Face to Face)
  • L' Avventuriero [Original Motion Picture Soundtrack]
  • Ad Ogni Costo [Original Motion Picture Soundtrack]
  • Teorema [Original Motion Picture Soundtrack]
  • Escalation [Original Motion Picture Soundtrack]
  • Comandamenti per en Gangster [Original Score]
  • The Big Gundown [Original Motion Picture Soundtrack]
  • Vergogna Schifosi
  • La Resa dei Conti [The Complete Original Motion Picture Soundtrack]
  • Metti una Sera a Cena [Original Motion Picture Soundtrack]
  • Ecce Homo (I Sopravvissuti)
  • La Donna Invisibile [Original Motion Picture Soundtrack]
  • L' Assoluto Naturale
  • L' Alibi [Original Motion Picture Soundtrack]
  • Vamos a Matar, Compañeros [Original Motion Picture Soundtrack]
  • Per un Pugno Di Samba
  • Indagine su un Cittadino al di sopra di ogni Sospetto [Original Motion Picture Soundtrack]
  • Il Clan dei Siciliani
  • Gott mit uns (Original Soundtrack)
  • Le Foto Proibite di una Signora per Bene [Original Motion Picture Soundtrack]
  • The Feed-Back
  • La Califfa [Original Motion Picture Soundtrack]
  • Una Lucertola con la Pelle di Donna [Original Motion Picture Soundtrack]
  • Gli Occhi Freddi Della Paura [Original Soundtrack]
  • Giu' la testa
  • Giornata nera per l'ariete [Original Motion Picture Soundtrack]
  • Il Gatto a Nove Code [Original Motion Picture Soundtrack]
  • Forza G
  • For a Few Dollars More [Original Motion Picture Soundtrack]
  • Duck, You Sucker [A Fistful of Dynamite]
  • La Corta Notte Della Bambole di Vetro [Original Motion Picture Soundtrack]
  • The Black Belly of the Tarantula [Original Soundtrack]
  • 4 Mosche di Velluto Grigio [Original Soundtrack]
  • Revolver [Original Motion Picture Soundtrack]
  • Questa Specia d'Amore
  • Once Upon a Time in the West [Original Soundtrack]
  • The Master Touch (Un Uomo da Rispettare) [Original Soundtrack]
  • Imputazione di Omicidio per Uno Studente
  • Il Diavolo Nel Cervello [Original Motion Picture Soundtrack]
  • I Figli Chiedono Perché [Original Motion Picture Soundtrack]
  • Le Due Stagioni Della Vita [Original Motion Picture Soundtrack]
  • Chi l'ha vista morire? [Colonna sonora originale]
  • Il Serpente [Original Motion Picture Soundtrack]
  • Sahara
  • La Proprietá Non É Piú un Furto [Original Motion Picture Soundtrack]
  • My Name Is Nobody (Il Mio Nome è Nessuno) [Original Soundtrack
  • Controfase
  • Trio Infernale [Original Motion Picture Soundtrack]
  • Milano Odia: La Polizia Non Può Sparare [Original Motion Picture Soundtrack]
  • Il Giro del Mondo Degli Innamorari di Peynet [Original Soundtrack]
  • Che c'entriamo noi con la rivoluzione?
  • Il Politiziotto della Brigata Criminale [Original Motion Picture Soundtrack]
  • Moses the Lawgiver [RCA]
  • Leonor [Original Motion Picture Soundtrack]
  • Gente di Rispetto
  • Novecento (1900) [Original Motion Picture Soundtrack]
  • Desert of the Tartars
  • Exorcist II: The Heretic [Music from the Motion Picture]
  • Fourth King
  • Exorcist II: The Heretic [Original Soundtrack]
  • Corleone [Original Motion Picture Soundtrack]
  • L' Immoralita [Soundtrack]
  • Il Vizietto (La Cage Aux Folles) [Original Motion Picture Soundtrack]
  • Il Prato [Original Soundtrack]
  • La Dame aux Camelias
  • Le Professionnel [Original Motion Picture Soundtrack]
  • Occhio Alla Penna
  • La Disubidienza
  • Alzati Spia
  • Hundra (Soundtrack)
  • La Gabbia
  • The Mission [Original Soundtrack]
  • The Untouchables [Original Motion Picture Soundtrack]
  • Gli Intoccabili [Original Soundtrack]
  • Secret of the Sahara [Original Television Soundtrack]
  • Secret of the Sahara [Original TV Soundtrack]
  • Fat Man and Little Boy [Original Soundtrack]
  • Cinema Paradiso [Original Motion Picture Soundtrack]
  • Casualties of War
  • Voyage of Terror
  • Everybody's Fine (Stanno Tutti Bene)
  • Bugsy [Original Score]
  • The Thing [Original Score]
  • Hamlet [Warner Bros. Original Soundtrack]
  • Crossing the Line [Original Motion Picture Soundtrack]
  • Battle Of Algiers (Soundtrack) / Massacre In Rome (Soundrack)
  • City of Joy [Original Motion Picture Soundtrack]
  • L' Umanoide (The Humanoid)/Amanti D'Oltre Tomba (Nightmare Castle)
  • Ennio Morricone: Un Film, Una Musica
  • Il Cinema Che Suona
  • Sun Spots (Eat It Macchie Solari)
  • Meeting (Incontro)
  • A Pure Formality [Original Soundtrack]
  • Jona Che Visse Nella Balena (Jonah Who Lived in the Whale)
  • In the Line of Fire [Original Motion Picture Soundtrack]
  • An Hour with Ennio Morricone (Original Soundtracks)
  • Nuovo Cinema Paradiso
  • Milano Odia: La Polizia Non Puo' Sparare/Il Giustiziere
  • Love Affair [Original Soundtrack]
  • The Long Silence (Il Lungo Silenzi)
  • Jonah & the Whale (Jona Che Visse Nella Balema)
  • Gli Avvoltoi Hanno Fame/I Giorni del Cielo
  • L' Eredita Ferramonti/Libera Am
  • Disclosure [Original Soundtrack]
  • Sunday Woman
  • Stay as You Are
  • Hundra [Prometheus]
  • Western Quintet
  • The Antichrist / Sepolta Viva [Original Soundtracks]
  • Action Thrillers
  • Once Upon a Time in America [Music from the Motion Picture]
  • Pasolini Un Delitto Italiano
  • Dancing With Morricone
  • Piazza di Spagna (Original Soundtrack Recording)
  • La Tenda Rossa
  • Orca
  • Wolf [Original Soundtrack]
  • Navajo Joe (Original Soundtrack)
  • Il Ladrone/L'Harem
  • Ennio Morricone [Vivi Musica]
  • The Star Maker
  • Film Music By Ennio Morricone
  • Queimada [Original Soundtrack]
  • Nostromo
  • I Magi Randagi
  • Ennio Morricone Per Pier Paolo Pasolini
  • Drammi Gotici (Gothic Dramas): A Rare Television Score By Ennio Morricone
  • Cinema Paradiso: The Classic Film Music of Ennio Morricone [Silva]
  • C'era una volta (Complete Original Soundtrack Recording)
  • The Master & Margarita
  • U Turn [Original Soundtrack]
  • Symphony for Richard III
  • Prima della Rivoluzione; Unuomo a meta
  • D'amore Si Muore [Original Motion Picture Soundtrack]
  • Casse/Peur Sur La Ville
  • Bulworth
  • Lolita [1998 Original Score]
  • Murdercharge for a Student
  • Spiel Mir Das Lied Vom Tod [Disky]
  • Piume de Cristallo
  • Il Vizietto II
  • Sai Cosa Faceva Stalin Alle Donne?/Stark System
  • Mio Caro Assassino
  • Concerto Premio Rota 1995
  • Il Bandito Dagli Occhi Azzurri/Correva l'Anno di Grazia
  • The Bachelor (Mio Caro Dottor Gräsler) [Original Soundtrack]
  • Vite Strozzate
  • The Stendhal Syndrome
  • Phantom of the Opera
  • The Legend of 1900 [Original Motion Picture Soundtrack]
  • Control
  • La Tragedia Di Uomo Ridicolo
  • Cinema Concerto: Ennio Morricone at Santa Cecilia
  • Mission to Mars
  • Senza Movente: The Definitive Edition [Original Motion Picture Soundtrack]
  • La Scorta [Original Soundtrack]
  • Canone Inverso (Original Soundtrack)
  • Vatel
  • Slalom [Original Motion Picture Soundtrack]
  • Il Segreto (Soundtrack)
  • La Moglie piu' bella [Original Motion Picture Soundtrack]
  • Malena [Soundtrack]
  • Malena [Original Soundtrack]
  • Morricone 2001
  • L' Attentato [Original Motion Picture Soundtrack]
  • Canone Inverso: Making Love (Original Sountrack)
  • Scusi, facciamo l'amore? [Original Soundtrack]
  • Quattro Mosche Di Velluto Grigio
  • L' Essentiel de Ennio Morricone
  • Senso '45 (Soundtrack)
  • Un Difetto di Famiglia
  • Ennio Morricone: So Fine; White Dog
  • Il Papa Buono (Original Soundtrack)
  • Tre Colonne in Cronaca [Original Motion Picture Soundtrack]
  • Bianco, Rosso e Morricone [Original Motion Picture Soundtracks]
  • Cosi' Come Sei [Music from the Motion Picture]
  • Barbablu' [Original Motion Picture Soundtrack]
  • Musashi Encore
  • Remixes, Vol. 1
  • La Luz Prodigiosa
  • Focus
  • Anche Se Volessi Lavorare Che Faccio?
  • Le Ruffian
  • La Villa del Venerdi
  • La Cosa Buffa
  • Au Louvre le Plus Grand Musse du Monde - O.S.T.
  • OK Connery: Operation Kid Brother
  • Alla Scoperta Dell 'America
  • Musiche di Tornatore
  • Musiche di Pasolini
  • Tepepa [Original Motion Picture Soundtrack]
  • Ennio Morricone: Music for Piano
  • Cefalonia
  • Svegliati e Uccidi
  • The Battle of Algiers [Original Motion Picture Soundtrack]
  • Fateless [Original Motion Picture Soundtrack]
  • Guardians of the Clouds
  • Musashi [Original Soundtrack]
  • Per un Pugno di Dollari [Original Motion Picture Soundtrack]
  • In Fondo al Cuore
  • Senza Movente - O.S.T. (Dig)
  • E Ridendo L'Uccise
  • Morricone: The Man and His Music
  • Film Music by Ennio Morricone
  • Spasmo
  • Morricone in the Brain: Blowing Your Mind with the Maestro
  • Ennio Morricone: Arena Concerto
  • Vamos a Mater Companeros
  • Morricone Bossa - O.S.T. (W/Book)
  • El Greco
  • Quel Maledetto Treno Blindato [Original Motion Picture Sountrack]
  • L' Imprevisto [Original Motion Picture Soundtrack]
  • Il Mercenario [Original Motion Picture Soundtrack]
  • Cuore di Mamma
  • Butterfly [Original Motion Picture Soundrack]
  • Ruba Al Prossimo Tuo [Original Motion Picture Soundtrack]
  • Il Maestro e Margherita [Colonna Sonora Originale] [Edizione Speciale]
  • I Pugni in Tasca
  • Baarìa
  • Ci Risiamo, Vero Provvidenza? [Original Motion Picture Soundtrack]
  • Come un Delfino [Colonna Sonora]
  • Paradiso
  • La Cugina [Original Soundtrack]
  • The Bossa Nova & Samba Soundtracks
  • Svegliati e Uccidi [Original Soundtrack] [Special Edition]
  • The Essential Ennio Morricone
  • La Vita a Volte e Molto Dura Vero Provvidenza
  • A Time to Die
  • The Hateful Eight [Original Motion Picture Soundtrack]
  • Morricone 60
  • L' Harem [Original Motion Picture Soundtrack]

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October 5, 2004

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Once Upon a Time: The Essential Ennio Morricone Film Music Collection

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The two-disc Once Upon a Time: The Essential Ennio Morricone is a serviceable but unexciting overview of some of the highlights of the Italian soundtrack master's enormous catalog. Because it's designed for the newcomer and the casual fan, the play list consists almost entirely of songs that will be overly familiar to those who have been following Morricone's career for some time, with the umpteenth iteration of the spaghetti Western themes filling nearly the entirety of the first disc while ignoring the more obscure but equally interesting work the composer did in other musical and cinematic styles during the same period. However, disc two is a nicely varied collection of songs from Morricone's '80s and '90s work, a mature period in his musical career with essential highlights like the lovely, haunted "The Mission" and the sentimentally nostalgic "Cinema Paradiso." Because of the ongoing interest in Morricone's earlier work, his equally fine later scores are too often ignored, and disc two of this collection is a solid starting point for those who want to move on from "A Fistful of Dynamite: Duck, You Sucker." Again, however, established fans will find little they're not already familiar with.

Track Listing - Disc 1

Sample Title/Composer Performer Time Stream
Once Upon a Time in the West, film score
1
Man With the Harmonica
Ennio Morricone
Ennio Morricone
feat: Crouch End Festival Chorus / Prague Philharmonic Orchestra
3:53
A Fistful of Dollars (Per un pugno di dollari), film score
2
Theme
Ennio Morricone
Ennio Morricone
feat: Crouch End Festival Chorus / Prague Philharmonic Orchestra
3:27
For a Few Dollars More (Per qualche dollaro in più), film score
3
Theme
Ennio Morricone
Ennio Morricone
feat: Crouch End Festival Chorus / Prague Philharmonic Orchestra
3:25
Days of Heaven, film score
4
The Harvest
Ennio Morricone
Ennio Morricone
feat: Crouch End Festival Chorus / Prague Philharmonic Orchestra
2:56 Amazon
Un Esercito cinque uomini (The Five Man Army), film score
5
Theme
Ennio Morricone
Ennio Morricone
feat: Crouch End Festival Chorus / Prague Philharmonic Orchestra
2:49 Amazon
Once Upon a Time in the West, film score
6
Jill's Theme
Ennio Morricone
Ennio Morricone
feat: Crouch End Festival Chorus / Prague Philharmonic Orchestra
6:06
7
The Viriginian, television series theme (The Men from Shiloh)
Ennio Morricone
Ennio Morricone
feat: Crouch End Festival Chorus / Prague Philharmonic Orchestra
3:01 Amazon
Guns for San Sebastian, film score
8
Overture
Ennio Morricone
Ennio Morricone
feat: Crouch End Festival Chorus / Prague Philharmonic Orchestra
3:48 Amazon
Two Mules For Sister Sara, film score
9
Theme
Ennio Morricone
Ennio Morricone
feat: Crouch End Festival Chorus / Prague Philharmonic Orchestra
5:19 Amazon
Giù la testa (Duck, You Sucker), film score (aka "A Fistful of Dynamite")
10
Duck, You Sucker
Ennio Morricone
Ennio Morricone
feat: Crouch End Festival Chorus / Prague Philharmonic Orchestra
4:08
Il Mio Nome è Nessuno (My Name Is Nobody), film score (aka Lonesome Gun)
11
Theme
Ennio Morricone
Ennio Morricone
feat: Crouch End Festival Chorus / Gareth Williams
3:10 Amazon
The Good, the Bad and the Ugly (Il Buono, Il Brutto, Il Cattivo), film score
12
Main Theme
Ennio Morricone
Ennio Morricone
feat: Crouch End Festival Chorus / Prague Philharmonic Orchestra
2:52
13
The Ecstasy of Gold
Ennio Morricone
Ennio Morricone
feat: Crouch End Festival Chorus / Prague Philharmonic Orchestra
3:07
Nuovo cinema paradiso, film score (aka Cinama Paradiso)
14
Theme
Ennio Morricone
Ennio Morricone
feat: Crouch End Festival Chorus / Prague Philharmonic Orchestra
3:33
Once Upon a Time in America, film score
15
Deborah's Theme
Ennio Morricone
Ennio Morricone
feat: Crouch End Festival Chorus / Prague Philharmonic Orchestra
4:43

Track Listing - Disc 2

Sample Title/Composer Performer Time Stream
The Untouchables, film score
1
Main Theme
Ennio Morricone
Ennio Morricone
feat: Crouch End Festival Chorus / Prague Philharmonic Orchestra
2:23 Amazon
The Red Tent, film score
2
Theme
Ennio Morricone
Ennio Morricone
feat: Crouch End Festival Chorus / Prague Philharmonic Orchestra
3:37 Amazon
Le Clan des Siciliens (The Sicilian Clan), film score
3
Theme
Ennio Morricone
Ennio Morricone
feat: Crouch End Festival Chorus / Prague Philharmonic Orchestra
4:07
Exorcist II "The Heretic", film score
4
Regan's Theme
Ennio Morricone
Ennio Morricone
feat: Crouch End Festival Chorus / Prague Philharmonic Orchestra
2:39
Moses the Lawgiver, television film score
5
Theme
Ennio Morricone
Ennio Morricone
feat: Crouch End Festival Chorus / Prague Philharmonic Orchestra
3:53
In the Line of Fire, film score
6
Theme
Ennio Morricone
Ennio Morricone
feat: Mark Ayres
4:04
The Thing, film score
7
Theme
Ennio Morricone
Ennio Morricone
feat: Gareth Williams
4:28
Joss, Il Professionista, film score (aka Le Professional)
8
Chi Mai
Ennio Morricone
Ennio Morricone
feat: Crouch End Festival Chorus / Prague Philharmonic Orchestra
5:37
Hamlet, film score (1990)
9
Theme
Ennio Morricone
Ennio Morricone
feat: Crouch End Festival Chorus / Prague Philharmonic Orchestra
2:38
Novecento (1900), film score
10
Romanza
Ennio Morricone
Ennio Morricone
feat: Crouch End Festival Chorus / Prague Philharmonic Orchestra
3:31
Casualties of War, film score
11
Elegy for Brown
Ennio Morricone
Ennio Morricone
feat: Crouch End Festival Chorus / Prague Philharmonic Orchestra
3:52
Marco Polo, television mini-series score
12
Theme
Ennio Morricone
Ennio Morricone
feat: Crouch End Festival Chorus / Prague Philharmonic Orchestra
2:39
The Mission, film score
13
Suite: The Mission
Ennio Morricone
Ennio Morricone
feat: Crouch End Festival Chorus / Prague Philharmonic Orchestra
2:57
14
Suite: Gabriel's Oboe
Ennio Morricone
Ennio Morricone
feat: Crouch End Festival Chorus / Prague Philharmonic Orchestra
2:20
15
Suite: Ave Maria (Guarini)
Ennio Morricone
Ennio Morricone
feat: Crouch End Festival Chorus / Prague Philharmonic Orchestra
2:32
16
Suite: On Earth As It Is In Heaven
Ennio Morricone
Ennio Morricone
feat: Crouch End Festival Chorus / Prague Philharmonic Orchestra
3:31
17
Suite: Epilogue - The Falls
Ennio Morricone
Ennio Morricone
feat: Crouch End Festival Chorus / Prague Philharmonic Orchestra
1:42
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