Piero Piccioni
Born in 1921, the son of an eminent judge, soundtrack composer Piero Piccioni followed his father's footsteps and practised as a lawyer before abandoning the legal profession to pursue a career in music. A highly skilled pianist and organist, he played regularly for friends in the Italian film world and it was director Michelangelo Antonioni ("Blow Up"; "Zabriskie Point") who first suggested he try to compose for the big screen.
Born in 1921, the son of an eminent judge, soundtrack composer Piero Piccioni followed his father's footsteps and practised as a lawyer before abandoning the legal profession to pursue a career in music. A highly skilled pianist and organist, he played regularly for friends in the Italian film world and it was director Michelangelo Antonioni ("Blow Up"; "Zabriskie Point") who first suggested he try to compose for the big screen.
Il Medico della Mutua
Limited transparent yellow vinyl edition of 500. l Medico della Mutua, composed by Piero Piccioni in 1968, delivers a brilliant soundtrack that fuses jazz, easy listening, and orchestral flourishes, mirroring the satirical verve of the film. Themes shift from playful marches to sultry tangos, amplifying both the absurdity and energy of the Italian medical system’s cinematic parody.
Gunz Concerto
Exclusive First-Time Vinyl Release: Rare Italian Film Score Vibes by Piero Piccioni
Il Dio Sotto La Pelle
Piero Piccioni's hidden masterpiece finally emerges. His 1974 Il Dio Sotto la Pelle soundtrack fuses jazz, psychedelic orchestration, and world music into transcendent spiritual journey. Ethereal strings, exotic instruments, and contemplative atmospheres mirror the film's exploration of identity and the sacred. Double transparent orange vinyl edition of 500.
Il Faro In Capo Al Mondo
“Il faro in capo al mondo” (The Light at the Edge of the World) is a 1971 film directed by Kevin Billington, based on a novel by Jules Verne. It’s a dark, solitary adventure set on a remote island off Cape Horn, where a group of pirates led by the ruthless Jonathan Kongre (played by Yul Brynner) takes over a lighthouse to cause shipwrecks and plunder the remains. Kirk Douglas stars as the last surviving lighthouse keeper, caught in a grueling battle between man and nature, civilization and savag…
Colpo Rovente
*2025 stock. Issued in a replica mini-LP jacket with inner sleeve, 16-page booklet, and OBI strip.* Piero Piccioni ‘Colpo Rovente’ is one of the rarest soundtrack albums in the Italian film music history. This soundtrack stands out from the traditional period into the psychedelic era. Soft-spoken and suave cool jazz, along with hallucinogenic go-go sounds appears throughout the film and soundtrack. Dynamic big band tunes are stunningly matched with impossibly beautiful jazz funk scores infused w…
L'Alba dell'Uomo
Beat Records is pleased to present on CD the complete edition of the score by Piero Piccioni for Folco Quilici's TV series L'alba dell'uomo (Dawn of Man), broadcast by RAI between 1970 and 1974. The origins of man and his culture are "rediscovered" in the contemporary world through a series of eight one-hour episodes which won the Italian Television Critics Award in 1975-1976. The documentarian, writer, and explorer Folco Quilici has always given great importance to music in the productions he d…
Lo Scopone Scientifico (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)
Quartet Records, in collaboration with Camille 3000 and the Piero Piccioni estate, presents the premiere CD release of a delightful score by Piero Piccioni (Fumo Di Londra, Colpo Rovente, Camille 2000, I Giovani Tigri) for Luigi Comencini’s film LO SCOPONE SCIENTIFICO, a 1973 Italian comedy-drama starring Alberto Sordi, Silvana Mangano, Joseph Cotten and Bette Davis. The story is about an aging and wealthy American woman who journeys to Rome each year with her chauffeur, George, to play the card…
A Modern Gentleman
*2020 stock.* Piero Piccioni undoubtedly was the most “dandy” of Italian film music composers. The most stylish one, in art as in life. On the centenary of the composer’s birth, CAM Sugar celebrates his art with a compilation that draws from both his well-know and lesser-known works, alongside a precious handful of tracks that, surprisingly, have remained fully unreleased until today.
The result is a journey of rediscovery of the unique, dazzling and unmistakable sound of the Turin-born composer…
Io e Caterina
1980, a crossroad full of living icons in a single movie interpreted and directed by Alberto Sordi, Io e Caterina. So, Alberto Sordi, Edwige Fenech, the year of release, 1980, what do we miss to get an absolute masterpiece? The soundtrack composer, Maestro Piero Piccioni. We can say it openly, one of its greatest score for cinema, intense, full of energy, orchestral, funky, melodic, touching, enthralling, passionate. An album that will be the score of your private summer, on your turn-table, in …
Scacco Alla Regina
Edition of 500. Cinevox present an ultimate 2-CD expanded edition of cult score Scacco alla Regina, a 1969 movie directed by Pasquale Festa Campanile, taken from the book of Renato Ghiotti, screenplay by Brunello Rondi and Tullio Pinelli, music by Piero Piccioni.A weird story with psychedelic athmoshperes, with costumes similar to the Star Treck series and with the wonderful music of Piero Piccioni, one of the best composer in the international scene. Edda Dell'Orso lends her haunting, wordless …
Dopo di che..Uccide il Maschio e lo Divora
For the first time in a single 7’’ the gorgeous soul ballads that Piero Piccioni composed for the title credits of two Italian-Spanish thrillers, both magnificently sung by Shawn Robinson’s divine voice. Two pop-downtempo gems shining with the power of their melodies and the quality of their proto- hip hop arrangements that immediately carry us into the dreamlike, mellow atmosphere of the early 1970’s European thriller cinema. This music is characterised by timeless, unbounded elegance, poised b…