ENNIO MORRICONE (1928 - 2020)

....along with full symphony orchestras and choirs!?

Nice info! I think I've heard he's Dutch, though with that name I rather thought German

I know what you mean mate, it's just that i didn't feel anything absolutely special about the piece. And i am with Bregt when saying that this ad is so wrong in so many places. Now I'll go drift with the beauty of FATELESS instead

True, but not when Morricone is doing it. After all isn't he one of the first to use the wordless vocals as a musical device prominently in scores? His success and the imitations by those that came later on, created the cliche.

I like the music in the clip. Is it available in any place other than Itunes?

I'm not sure what you folks find inappropriate in the video.

Ah, come on! It's silly of course, but that's not too different from many ads these days. I thought you guys were fussing about some politicallly incorrect stuff about Tibet. Is he bringing Hollywood to Tibet? I interpret it as he likes his ride that he continues on to Tibet (yeah, crazy but so what?)

http://www.spaghettiwesternorchestra.com/

Click on VIDEO CLIPS to see some excerpts.

I can't take credit for finding it, it's from this thread: http://filmscoremonthly.com/board/posts … ;archive=0

I'm amazed how these 5 loonies are able to recapture the spirit of the original scores, something no one else seems capable of anymore, even Morricone's own live performances (as Jim notes in the FSM thread).

And a couple of utube links:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EnU7Lz8OJcM
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GrenPqXgdBk

Peter

Is the car commercial music released anywhere. I would enjoy hearing it on its own.

Intrada Announces:

TREASURE OF THE FOUR CROWNS
*Expanded Edition*

Composed and Conducted by ENNIO MORRICONE

INTRADA Special Collection Volume 81

When writer-actors Gene Quintano and Tony Anthony teamed with director Ferdinando Baldi for 1981’s Comin’ at Ya! their profitable transformation of the Spaghetti Western into a 3-D extravaganza sent a stereoscopic shockwave through Hollywood, inspiring a new wave of paper glass-required entertainments like Spacehunter, Jaws 3-D, Amityville 3-D, The Man Who Wasn’t There, Parasite and Metalstorm. Now fueled with bigger aspirations than doing another vivid horse opera, Quintano, Anthony and Baldi decided to go on a mystical treasure hunt for their next film. But where Indiana Jones only dealt with 2-D snakes, Anthony’s adventurer J.T. Striker (and his audience) would be ducking demons, vultures, arrows, skeletons and a fountain pen in “Super-Vision 3-D” for 1983’s Treasure of the Four Crowns from Cannon Pictures. Along for the extra-sensory ride would be Ennio Morricone, whose majestic score would lend the often-outlandish visuals a dramatic gravitas worthy of “a world where good and evil collide.” Morricone begins with the aptly named “Crowning Glory” theme, music that builds with a kingly sense of honor, until it’s joined by a full, glorious orchestra and chorus. With trumpeting hosannas that recall his biblical work on Moses, Morricone not only bestows the relics with religious awe, but also makes Striker stand out as a hero much greater than himself. The score is uniquely Morricone -- repleat with brooding, noble themes and eerie orchestral suspense—the kind of musical treasure that was the distinct voice of Italy’s greatest and most prolific maestro.

Whether it’s the result of any re-editing that Cannon did for Crowns’ American translation, or how its makers chose to cut the music in, the surprisingly small amount of Morricone’s score that’s heard in the film rarely reflects what’s occurring on screen. Any attempt to decipher the puzzling use of Morricone’s score was compounded by the Four Crowns LP (and subsequent LP-mastered CD) on the General Music label in 1983, which reshuffled tracks and repeated others in its attempt to provide a more “musical” listening experience. But now, finally heard here in its complete stereo form from the recently discovered original master elements, the Four Crowns soundtrack reveals itself to be a real find in Morricone’s temple of scores, possessing as much melodic lyricism and thematic passion as his soundtracks for the far bigger pictures that would soon follow.

This release is limited to 1500 copies.

INTRADA Special Collection - Volume 81
Retail Price: 19.99
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For track listing and sound samples, please visit
http://store.intrada.com/s.nl/it.A/id.5950/.f

-Erik-

Peter / James

What's your view on the score?

Sorry for the late reply, been way too busy to have any fun (and will be even more busy for about a month, starting after this post).

The "Treasure of the four crowns" score has a great main theme, that in the first track reaches majestic heights. The price of the album is worth it for this track alone. The theme also appears in some sweeter arrangements. There's also a kinda rock inspired track, called "Bobsled run", that's absolutely fun and catchy (I once featured it in a Guess the Score game, and a couple of people thought the composer was Bill Conti). The rest consists mostly of suspense, a jazzy source music cue and a silly, busy little track.

I'm not sure how much to rate it, *** or **** perhaps. I need to listen to it more to be able decide.

Peter *gets to work*

PS. Hey, it's Morricone's b-day in 23 minutes!

Happy 80th Birthday Maestro Morricone! I hope you will give us some more of your majestic, beautiful music in the coming years!

Today I listened for the first time to "Secret of the Saraha" and "Morricone Mondo". Very very nice, the first grand and imposing while soothing at some parts... the second one is very hip and fresh. (in an old fashioned yet very cool way)

Seriously? Wow!

Happy Birthday, Maestro.

Cool about the Tarantino!