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CD Reviews: Ennio Morricone Gold Edition and Gli Indifferenti
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Ennio Morricone Gold Edition ****
ENNIO MORRICONE
GDM 0160592
Disc One: 16 tracks - 60:42 Disc Two: 17 tracks - 61:04 Disc Three: 17 tracks - 60:24
Ennio Morricone theme compilations are about as rare as delivered pizza, and while they almost always make great albums, they're generally filled with the same stuff. Whoever produced this album (GDM, actually) must have been thinking the same thing as me. Which is, what if somebody produced one really definitive Morricone compilation -- a box set packed with material; one that has everything other compilations have and lots more; one that really is the very, very best of Morricone, assembled in a gorgeous package. Because that's what this nearly is. Sure, it's got lots of the same old tracks, but it couldn't be definitive without them. It also has a lot of tracks you'd not normally find, such as Oceano, The Endless Game and the stupendous Quiemada. Of 50 tracks, I count 20 that aren't on other Morricone compilations I own. And I own a fair few.
It is the definitive compilation? Not quite. You'll still need the Mondo Morricone set for tracks from Città Violenta and the fantastic Vergogna Schifosi. You'll still need Rhino's A Fistful Of Film Music to get The Battle Of Algiers, Garden Of Delights and Ad Ogni Costo. Maybe one more disc with tracks like these would have allowed The Gold Collection to completely obscure other Morricone compilations. It hasn't, so it doesn't, but if there is a Morricone compilation out there that is number one, it's this one. It's the ideal way to own lots of great Morricone in one spend -- a totally loaded package with great theme after great theme from one of cinema's most brilliant theme writers. How can it not get top marks? -- Stephen Woolston
Gli Indifferenti ****
ENNIO MORRICONE
GDM 2049
14 tracks - 53:14
Another of Ennio Morricone's many mini-series television scores finds its way to CD. Gli Indifferenti is a1988 series directed and co-written by Mauro Bolognini. The director and composer collaborated on some 17 projects, including Bolognini's last feature film, Husbands and Lovers (1992). This project comes after a string of noted scores in the 1980s that caused a returning resurgence of interest in Morricone's music on a broader level.
The opening title track is classic Morricone melodrama with a sparsely-textured string ensemble playing a winding, unsettling chromatic melody. When the piano enters into the texture, it bears a slight resemblance to Bob Cobert's score for The Winds of War mini-series, crossed with a little Philip Sarde's string writing from Ghost Story. The track appears to be pieced together from several statements of this thematic idea. As the score unfolds, the simplicity of Morricone's heartfelt lyric lines constantly amazes. He is one of the few composers who can do so much with a bare minimum of material. His harmonic palette shifts between light and dark with subtle changes in orchestration that remind you why he is so admired in the film community. Gli Indiffenti turns out to be one of those subdued scores of exquisite beauty. It is less thematically rich, tending towards more melodramatic underscoring with the occasional lyric idea layered into the overall texture. Many of the tracks here are at least three minutes in length, allowing the ideas to flow in large arches.
Once again, there is little information to increase one's knowledge of the music, the track listings, the performers, or the film. No doubt, GDM rests its sales on people looking for rare Italian soundtracks without any historical or film information. The sound here is good, though you may have to turn the volume up a bit to hear some of the unbelievably quiet string sections. The disc is easily recommendable to Morricone fans, and if you enjoy his less experimental orchestral scores from the 1980s, this is definitely worth adding to your collection. -- Steven A. Kennedy
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2005/11/8 11:38:23 |
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