Ennio Morricone - Spaghetti Western: The Ennio Morricone Collection

Title: Spaghetti Western: The Ennio Morricone Collection Artist: Ennio Morricone Release Date: 1995 Re-Released On: 6/30/1998 Label: BMG International, BMG Ariola Duration: 65:20 Album Type(s): Greatest Hits, soundtrack UPCs: 738476918924, 743212649529 Genre: Soundtrack Styles: Soundtracks, Film Music, Original Score Moods: Brooding, Dramatic, Eerie, Atmospheric, Autumnal, Ominous, Spooky, Bittersweet, Enigmatic, Intimate, Melancholy, Sparse, Gritty, Organic, Reflective, Stylish, Theatrical, Playful, Tense/Anxious, Wistful, Literate Total Copies: 0 Members Wishing: 5 Number of Discs/SwapaCD Credits: 1

1. A Gun for Ringo [From a Gun for Ringo (Una Pistola Per Ringo)] :: Ennio Morricone
2. Grotesque Suspense [From a Gun for Ringo (Una Pistola Per Ringo)] :: Ennio Morricone
3. Heroic Mexico [From a Gun for Ringo (Una Pistola Per Ringo)] :: Ennio Morricone
4. The Wait [From a Gun for Ringo (Una Pistola Per Ringo)] :: Ennio Morricone
5. The Slaughter [From a Gun for Ringo (Una Pistola Per Ringo)] :: Ennio Morricone
6. Angel Face [From a Gun for Ringo (Una Pistola Per Ringo)] :: Maurizio Graf, Ennio Morricone
7. At Times Life Is Very Hard, Isn't That Fate? [LA Vita a Volte é ...] :: Ennio Morricone, Bruno Nicolai
8. McGregor's March [7 Guns for the McGregors (7 Pistole Per I McGregor]
9. Santa Fe' Express [7 Guns for the McGregors (7 Pistole Per I McGregor] :: Ennio Morricone
10. A Gringo Like Me [Gunfight and Red Sands] :: Ennio Morricone, Peter Tevis
11. Lonesome Billy :: Ennio Morricone, Peter Tevis
12. The Indians [From Bullets Don't Argue (Le Pistole Non Discutono] :: Ennio Morricone
13. The Young Girl and the Sheriff [From Bullets Don't Argue (Le Pistole ...) :: Ennio Morricone
14. Bullets Don't Argue [From Bullets Don't Argue (Le Pistole Non ...) :: Ennio Morricone
15. Seven Women for the McGregors (7 Women for the McGregors) :: Ennio Morricone
16. Death Rides a Horse [From DeAth Rides a Horse (Da Uomo a Uomo)] :: Ennio Morricone
17. Mystic and Severe [From DeAth Rides a Horse (Da Uomo a Uomo)] :: Ennio Morricone
18. Guitar Nocturne [From DeAth Rides a Horse (Da Uomo a Uomo)] :: Ennio Morricone
19. Anger and Sorrow [From DeAth Rides a Horse (Da Uomo a Uomo)] :: Ennio Morricone
20. We'll Be Back, Isn't That Fate? [From We'll Be Back, Isn't That ...] :: Ennio Morricone
21. Mouth to Mouth [From We'll Be Back, Isn't That Fate? (Ci Risiamo, Vero :: Ennio Morricone
22. The Gallop [From We'll Be Back, Isn't That Fate? (Ci Risiamo, Vero ...) :: Ennio Morricone
23. The Return of Ringo [The Return of Ringo] :: Maurizio Graf, Ennio Morricone
24. The Disguise [The Return of Ringo] :: Ennio Morricone
25. The Fuentes [The Return of Ringo] :: Ennio Morricone
26. The Funeral [The Return of Ringo] :: Ennio Morricone
27. The Wedding and the Revenge [From the Return of Ringo (Il Ritorno Di Ringo) :: Ennio Morricone

Year Type Label Catalog # 1998 CD BMG International 26495 1996 CD BMG Ariola 264952

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Anyone who thinks that Ennio Morricone's best work in the spaghetti Westerns is centered in Sergio Leone's "Man With No Name" trilogy hasn't heard this delightful volume, which assembles the composer's music for nine Italian Westerns made between 1964 and 1972. There's not a dull note of music anywhere in here, and quite a bit of it is fascinating on an intellectual and musicological level. Morricone is known for his long, Puccini-like melodic lines and his use of wordless male choruses, whistling, and electric guitars to carry a melody, but on the early scores here, he uses solo trumpets and reed instruments (especially the oboe) -- clearly "The Slaughter" from A Gun for Ringo owes something to Dimitri Tiomkin's scoring for Rio Bravo. The title theme from At Times Life Is Very Hard, "Isn't That Fate" is, by contrast, an amalgam of pop and classical music, like an air freshener commercial that suddenly takes a detour through Giuseppe Verdi territory and gives more than a wave to Aaron Copland's "Billy the Kid." "McGregor's March," from 7 Guns for the McGregors, seems like a military march version of the old "Texaco theme" ("we are the men from Texaco..."), re-scored for heavy brass and pipes, with a whistled break. And other title themes resemble mid-'60s euro-pop music. There are several songs here that are noteworthy as broad, satirical expressions of the Western ethos: "Angel Face," "A Gringo Like Me," and "Lonesome Billy" are parodies of songs like "High Noon," sung in a declarative style midway between Hollywood and the operatic stage, and they have to be heard to be fully appreciated. ~ Bruce Eder, All Music Guide

Name Credits Bruno Nicolai Conductor Ennio Morricone Conductor Maurizio Graf Performer Peter Tevis Performer