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Cinema Paradiso: The Classic Film Music of Ennio Morricone
Ennio Morricone, Derek Wadsworth, Nic Raine
Cinema Paradiso: The Classic Film Music of Ennio Morricone
Genres: Pop, Soundtracks
 
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The film that took the 1989 Special Jury Prize at Cannes, Cinema Paradiso features a promising collaboration between il Maestro Ennio Morricone and director Giuseppe Tornatore. Essentially a bittersweet love letter to the...  more »

     
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All Artists: Ennio Morricone, Derek Wadsworth, Nic Raine, City of Prague Philharmonic Orchestra, Jill Washington
Title: Cinema Paradiso: The Classic Film Music of Ennio Morricone
Members Wishing: 3
Total Copies: 0
Label: Silva America
Original Release Date: 4/23/1996
Release Date: 4/23/1996
Album Type: Soundtrack
Genres: Pop, Soundtracks
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Number of Discs: 1
SwapaCD Credits: 1
UPCs: 738572105723, 5014929014821

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The film that took the 1989 Special Jury Prize at Cannes, Cinema Paradiso features a promising collaboration between il Maestro Ennio Morricone and director Giuseppe Tornatore. Essentially a bittersweet love letter to the enchantment of the cinema-going experience, "Paradiso" offers the melodic and romantic side of Morricone at his peak. The story line gratifyingly calls for Morricone to musically encapsulate a broad range of historic film music, from the orchestral grandeur of Golden Age Hollywood to the Neopolitan jazz of Rota and Fellini, which he does with typically brilliant panache. Telling fact: the main theme is so memorable it was recently co-opted for a car commercial! --Jerry McCulley

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CD Reviews

Music great but performance weak
j g | boston, ma usa | 07/01/2000
(1 out of 5 stars)

"I love the music of E.Morricone, and bought this disk since it had so many titles that I wanted. But although the songs are great, I found the performances - by the city of prague philharmonic - to be quite weak. There is very little emotion conveyed - and the emotion is what makes E.M.'s music so compelling. Even worse, the performance differs from what you remember in the movies - e.g. the good bad and ugly track had no chorus (no grunts); the mission soundtrack sounds like a symphonic rendition without the catholic power. Stick to the original soundtracks."
This is not original music of Ennio Morricone
j g | 12/19/1998
(2 out of 5 stars)

"This cd represent a compilation of various tracks by Ennio Morricone and contains very popular themes. I give only 2 stars, because the music is poor compared to the original version composed by Ennio Morricone."