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 battl…
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 …
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 Viol…
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 U…
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 Svegliat…
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 Giulian…
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. Esse…
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 t…
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…
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 Stefanel…
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 exper…
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, sta…
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 …
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 sta…
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 ma…
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 …
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 Giocattol…