Ennio Morricone
Ennio Morricone is a unique figure in the history of film music: composer, orchestrator, conductor and former trumpet player, who has written music for more than 500 motion pictures and television series, as well as contemporary classical works.. Morricone was born in Rome, the son of a jazz trumpet player, in 1928. He was a precocious musician, starting to compose at the age of six, and studied harmony and composition at the Santa Cecilia Conservatory.
Ennio Morricone is a unique figure in the history of film music: composer, orchestrator, conductor and former trumpet player, who has written music for more than 500 motion pictures and television series, as well as contemporary classical works.. Morricone was born in Rome, the son of a jazz trumpet player, in 1928. He was a precocious musician, starting to compose at the age of six, and studied harmony and composition at the Santa Cecilia Conservatory.
Member of: Gruppo di Improvvisazione Nuova Consonanza
Revolver
Revolver is one the finest Ennio Morricone thriller scores, composed in 1973 for Sergio Sollima's great 1973 giallo film. No sweeping themes, no quirky effects, no dissonant sounds -- just simple ideas, executed to perfection. Contains "Un Amico,"…
Le Pistole Non Discutono
“Le pistole non discutono” is a western movie directed in 1964 by Mario Caiano. Ennio Morricone has composed an orchestral score with dramatic passages with an epic main theme reprised through the score and alternated to Cantina tunes for solo gui…
Maddalena
“Maddalena” is a Jugoslavian-Italian co-production directed in 1971 by Jerzy Kawalerowicz and starring Lisa Gastoni, Frank Wolff, Ivo Garrani, Paolo Gozlino and Lucia Alberti. The score by Ennio Morricone is one of the main protagonists of this mo…
Lizard In A Woman's Skin
Ennio Morricone has produced masterpiece after masterpiece, but none so creatively unsettling as his score to the 1971 Lucio Fulci giallo, "Lizard in Woman'€™s Skin€ (aka Una Lucertola Con La Pelle Di Donna€). Like many of Fulci'€Å
Gli Intoccabili
“Gli Intoccabili” (The untouchables) is a slightly unknown movie that belongs to a very crowded group of international productions made between the ’60s and the ’70s. Some became ‘instant classics’, while many others remained unknown for years, o…
Spasmo
Dagored follows its sold-out Record Store Day 2015 editions of this soundtrack with this transparent vinyl edition, presented in a deluxe transparent plastic cover. This great score for Umberto Lenzi's 1974 cult thriller Spasmo, by the maestro Enni…
Il diavolo nel cervello
"Il Diavolo nel Cervello" (Devil in the brain) is a film directed in 1971 by Sergio Sollima and screened at the beginning of the following year; it's a psychological thriller in which tension is determined by the characters' psyche more than their…
Comandamenti Per Un Gangster
For this 1968 cult italian thriller based on a script by Dario Argento, the Maestro Ennio Morricone. composed a dark and oppressive score, with experimental and avant-garde elements, that describes perfectly the brutality of the plot.
Cosa Avete Fatto A Solange?
One of Ennio Morricone's greatest giallo scores was composed for Massimo Dallamano's 1972 film Cosa avete fatto a Solange? (What Have You Done to Solange?). This complex soundtrack features moody instrumentals, unusual rhythms, and sharp horns, and…
Musica su schemi
2015 repress. In the early 1960s, Franco Evangelisti assembled Gruppo Di Improvvisazione Nuova Consonanza, a collective of Italian composers, aspiring to revolutionize composition through group improvisation and -like their peer, Karlheinz Stockhause…
Il Maestro E Margherita
"Il Maestro e Margherita", dramatic film of 1972 directed by Aleksandar Petrovic, is the film adaptation of the novel by Mikhail Bulgakov. In the main cast Ugo Tognazzi, Mimsy Farmer, Alain Cuny.Ennio Morricone has composed an extremely romantic a…
Vamos A Matar, Companeros
"Vamos a matar, compañeros" is a western film of 1970 directed by Sergio Corbucci and starring Franco Nero, Tomas Milian, Jack Palance. To assemble this album (only a 45 rpm single was issued) the stereo master tapes of the original recording sess…
Escalation
Complete original motion picture score composed by Ennio Morricone for the 1968 cult movie “Escalation”, directed by Roberto Faenza and starring Claudine Auger, Lino Capolicchio and Gabriele Ferzetti. Luca (Lino Capolicchio), son of a prominent Ita…
i Crudeli (The Cruel Ones)
Supremely atmospheric Ennio Morricone score to a lesser known, but nonetheless stylish and satisfying Sergio Corbucci production; a cross between a Spaghetti Western and a wild west road movie, indeed, a fine example of a film that combines both …
Eroina
There are still so many treasures to be discovered out there, but once you find a gem like this you can definitely put the research on hold for a little while and give it a deep listen. Recorded at Fono Roma in 1971, Eroina is a series of hauntin…
La resa dei conti
The stunning soundtrack composed by Ennio Morricone for the 1968 movie La Resa Dei Conti, directed by Sergio Sollima and starring Lee Van Cleef, Tomas Milian, Walter Barnes, is finally available again on vinyl since its original 1968 release on Pa…
L'istruttoria e' chiusa. Dimentichi.
A deluxe edition of the soundtrack composed and directed by Ennio Morricone for the 1971 movie L’Istruttoria E’ Chiusa: Dimentichi (The Case Is Closed, Forget It) directed by Damiano Damiani and starring Franco Nero, Georges Wilson, John Steiner. …
Il Prefetto di Ferro
The Maestro Morricone’s Mediterranean sounds for the cult movie “Il Prefetto di Ferro” - directed by Pasquale Squitieri and starring the Italian cinema legend Giuliano Gemma - are sometimes warm, sometimes hard and sharp. With this score we can ea…
A Quiet Place In The Country
The missing link in the Morricone / Gruppo discography. Their original unreleased avant / cacophonic score to Elio Petri's manic Artsploitation masterpiece was the first and last time Morricone and Il Gruppo would co-sign an OST/session. Conducted…
Giu' La Testa
Few copies available, coming from a dead stock. With classic films like The Good, the Bad and the Ugly and Once Upon a Time in the West, Sergio Leone built his reputation as a master of the Western. A key part of these film's unique style was their…