Ennio Morricone

Quartet Records, in collaboration with GDM and Universal Music Publishing Italia, presents the definitive, remastered reissue of Ennio Morricone’s complete score for Elio Petri’s 1973 film La proprietà non è più un furto (“Property Is No Longer a Theft”). This darkly satirical drama—starring Ugo Tognazzi, Flavio Bucci, and Daria Nicolodi—marks the final chapter in Petri’s celebrated “trilogy of neurosis,” following Indagine su un cittadino al di sopra di ogni sospetto and La classe operaia va in paradiso. Morricone’s score is a masterclass in timbral and electronic experimentation, echoing the oppressive, modern cityscape and grotesque social satire at the film’s core. He employs avant-garde compositional techniques, inventive use of voices, and a grotesque march to underscore the absurdity and moral ambiguity of the institutions of law and property. Unlike the previous scores in the trilogy, Morricone infuses this soundtrack with a more openly painful, disillusioned tone—mirroring the film’s slow-burning sense of decadence and existential malaise.

Originally released on LP by RCA in 1973 and later on CD in the 1990s, the score saw an expanded edition in 2009 that quickly went out of print. This new edition, freshly remastered by Chris Malone from the original master tapes and supervised by Claudio Fuiano, restores the complete score in its best-ever sound. The package includes an insightful essay by Miguel Ángel Ordóñez, exploring the film’s context, Morricone’s compositional approach, and the enduring significance of his collaboration with Petri.

La proprietà non è più un furto stands as one of Morricone’s most complex and subversive works—an essential listen for fans of Italian cinema, film music, and avant-garde sound.