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.
La Cuccagna
On La cuccagna, Ennio Morricone sketches early‑60s Italian life in miniature: light, bittersweet themes, small‑combo colours and gently ironic swings that mirror a young woman’s fragile hopes inside a consumerist daydream starting to fray.
La ragazza e il Generale
In La ragazza e il generale, Ennio Morricone threads anti‑war irony through bittersweet melodies and marching figures, mixing folk‑tinged themes, choral snatches and tense orchestration into a score where tenderness and absurdity share the same battlefield.
Danger: Diabolik
On Danger: Diabolik, Ennio Morricone weaponises pop, jazz and electronics into a hyper‑stylised heist engine: fuzz guitars, wordless vocals and mod orchestration turning Mario Bava’s comic‑book caper into a delirious, late‑60s sonic hallucination.
Thrilling
In Thrilling, Ennio Morricone’s widescreen sense of drama condenses into a tightly wound suite of themes: tense strings, ghostly choirs and razor‑edged rhythm figures that turn suspense into something almost voluptuously atmospheric.
Mussolini ultimo atto
On Mussolini ultimo atto, Ennio Morricone turns the final days of Mussolini into tense, tragic chamber drama, fusing pared‑back orchestral writing, unnerving timbres and fragile lyricism into a score where history feels like a slow, inexorable noose tightening.
Città Violenta
Quartet Records, in collaboration with GDM and Universal Music Publishing Ricordi, presents a completely revised, remastered edition of the dynamic, classic score by Ennio Morricone for the 1970 Charles Bronson action vehicle Città Violenta (aka Violkent City), directed by Sergio Sollima and co-starring Telly Savalas and Jill Ireland. The film is about a hit man who, after being double-crossed by his mistress and barely escaping a murder attempt, sets out to take revenge on the woman and the mob…
Massacre In Rome/Gott Mit Uns
Quartet Records, in collaboration with GDM, Universal Music Publishing Ricordi and EMI General Music Publishing, presents a CD focused on two WWII soundtracks by Ennio Morricone, pairing his dramatic scores for Massacre in Rome (1973) and Gott Mitt Uns (1970)
Massacre in Rome was directed by George Pan Cosmatos and starred Marcello Mastroianni, Richard Burton and Leo McKern. The story takes place in Nazi-occupied Rome, where an assault on an SS brigade draws retaliation from the military governo…
Svegliati E Uccidi
Quartet Records, in collaboration with GDM and Universal Music Publishing Ricordi, presents a remastered reissue—for the first time in full stereo—of the 1966 classic, propulsive and exciting Ennio Morricone cult score for the thriller movie Svegliati e Uccidi, a successful Italian production directed by Carlo Lizzani and starring Robert Hoffmann, Lisa Gastoni and Gian Maria Volontè. The film is about a dangerous fugitive who meets a nightclub singer with whom he falls in love. They both get cau…
Ad Ogni Costo
Quartet Records, in collaboration with GDM and Universal Music Publishing Ricordi, presents a completely revised, remastered edition of the catchy Ennio Morricone score for Ad Ogni Costo (aka Grand Slam), a 1967 comedy-caper movie directed by Giuliano Montaldo, starring Janet Leight, Edward G. Robinson, Klaus Kinski, Robert Hoffmann and Adolfo Celi. The story is about Professor James Anders, who, upon retiring, presents a famous criminal with an elaborate plan to rob a diamond company in Brazil …
Improvisationen (LP)
The magnificent group of Egisto Macchi, Ennio Morricone, Franco Evangelisti, John Heineman, Mario Bertoncini and Walter Branchi on DGG's famed "Avantgarde" contemporary/electronic music series including a rare electronic piece, released in 1969. Essential.
Tepepa
On Tepepa, Ennio Morricone turns the Mexican Revolution into an operatic fever dream, braiding solemn mariachi‑tinted themes, mystical guitar‑and‑orchestra adagios and defiant song into a score where personal vengeance and collective uprising share the same melodic bloodline.
Gli Intoccabili
2xLP Transparent Magenta 180gr + CD | Limited Numbered Edition of 500 copies. April 1969. On screens across Europe, a film opens that looks like an American crime picture but feels like something else entirely. Giuliano Montaldo, the Italian director who would later give us Sacco e Vanzetti and Giordano Bruno, has crossed the Atlantic to shoot a heist thriller in San Francisco and Las Vegas. The cast reads like an inventory of New Hollywood royalty: John Cassavetes, fresh from Rosemary's Baby, a…
Il Mio Nome è Nessuno
Beat Records is pleased to reissue on CD the Ennio Morricone score for the cult western "My name is nobody" directed in 1973 by Tonino Valerii, starring Terence Hill, Henry Fonda, Leo Gordon, Jean Martin, Geoffrey Lewis, Piero Lulli , Benito Stefanelli, RG Armstrong, Alexander Allerson, Franco Angrisano, Mario Brega, Marc Mazza, Remus Peets, Antoine Saint John. Ennio Morricone composed one of the most loved scores from his fans around the world using elements typical of his genius such as the wh…
Ecce Homo - I Sopravvissuti
For this CD, we used the stereo master tapes from the original sessions, and as a bonus track, we've included a lengthy mono suite assembled by Maestro Morricone himself for a promotional double vinyl release. The maestro composed a fascinating experimental score that draws on his studies and performances with the Gruppo di Improvvisazione Nuova Consonanza, founded by Goffredo Petrassi. Morricone perfectly captured the deceptively quiet atmosphere of a post-nuclear world, where survivors live in…
Il Clan Dei Siciliani
CAM Sugar is proud to announce the definitive release of the original soundtrack composed by Ennio Morricone for Il clan dei siciliani (The Sicilian Clan) by Henri Verneuil (1969), one of the most celebrated European noir films of the late 1960s, starring Jean Gabin, Alain Delon, and Lino Ventura.
Revolver
Quartet Records, in collaboration with EMI General Music Publishing, presents a meticulously remastered reissue of Ennio Morricone's iconic poliziesco score for Sergio Sollima's Revolver (1973), a violent Italian-French thriller starring Oliver Reed and Fabio Testi. This definitive release brings one of Morricone's most dynamic crime scores back to pristine sonic quality, showcasing the composer's mastery of the genre that would later influence his acclaimed American gangster film work. The film…
Oceano
Quartet Records, in collaboration with Universal Music Publishing Italia and EMI Music Publishing, presents a meticulously remastered reissue of Ennio Morricone's fascinating score for Folco Quilici's Oceano (1971), a pseudo-documentary film that stands as one of the most unique and spiritually profound projects in both filmmakers' careers. This definitive release showcases Morricone at his most experimental and meditative, creating what may be his most transcendent work for cinema. The film fol…
The Ennio Morricone Desert TV Trilogy
Ennio Morricone with “Secret of the Sahara” achieved great sales success, especially thanks to the song “Saharan Dream” performed by Amii Stewart. At the time, Italian RCA released a CD and a 33 rpm with sixteen tracks selected by the author. This material was released in France on CD and on vinyl. In 2018, the same material was reissued on vinyl by Monte Stella Records. In 2007 Maestro Morricone approved six previously unreleased tracks for an expanded edition, which GDM released on CD, now tha…
A Pure Formality
Quartet Records presents a remastered reissue of one of the most celebrated collaborations between Ennio Morricone and Giuseppe Tornatore, the composer’s most important partner during the last twenty years of his career. Together they achieved great success in Italian and international cinema with films such as Cinema Paradiso, Stanno Tutti Bene, The Legend Of 1900, Malena and The Best Offer, among others. A Pure Formality (1994) is an intense Kafkaesque noir drama (starring Gérard Depardieu an…
Giordano Bruno
Quartet Records, in collaboration with GDM and Universal Music Publishing, presents a remastered reissue of one of Ennio Morricone’s most celebrated collaborations with Giuliano Montaldo (Sacco e Vanzetti, Gli Intoccabili, Ad Ogni Costo, Il Giocattolo, Tempo di Uccidere). The 1973 historical drama Giordano Bruno is about the free-thinking philosopher, poet and scientist Giordano Bruno (Gian Maria Volontè), who, fleeing from his enemies in the Catholic Church, has found some protection in Venice.…