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Topic: They All Love Morricone!
PeterK
FishChip
In stock now, begins shipping this weekend: a collection of Morricone-penned music performed by a variety of people who claim their love for the Maestro (why this wasn't released yesterday in time for Vday is beyond me!). Metallica's version of "The Ecstasy of Gold" heard at so many of their concerts, now released in good company, heh. Although the opening is probably the worst thing to start with (but then again, this was produced outside of America, where Celine Dion is still huge business... I like to think of her as an alien from outer space, but whatever!).http://www.moviemusic.com/soundtrack/weallloveenniomorricone
The Yo-Yo Ma, Renee Fleming, Quincy Jones/Herbie Hancock tracks look very appealing, while the Bruce Springsteen and Roger Waters tracks not as much. I may crack this thing open early if pre-orders aren't so strong.Good to see a bunch of things happening for Morricone... this is his limelight, right now, as far as PR and this honorary Oscar.
[Message edited by PeterK on 02-14-2007]
posted 02-14-2007 01:28 PM PT (US) Camillu
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*cough* posted 02-15-2007 04:07 AM PT (US) PeterK
FishChip
Neat album. Of course, there can be criticisms from all angles, but how do you cover in 70 minutes the magnitude of influence one composer has had over an entire artistic community with his 500+ original scores? You can't.I feared the Celine Dion track would forever taint "Deborah's Theme," but thankfully my ears don't let her drama come close to the intenseness of the original melody, nor the brute female strength in the singing voice of Edda Dell'Orso. Someone posted a video on YouTube, accompanying Dion's song with images from a different Dion song. It's actually somewhat touching and diffuses exactly what we may be thinking the meaning is behind the new lyric. video here
One thing I hoped I would get from this album: a piece of music I've never heard before... and while the notion is true for much of this stuff because of its "interpretation" presentation of music already written, the one thing that knocked my socks off was "La Luz Prodigiosa." Turns out it isn't an interpretation, but the title track taken directly from La Luz Prodigiosa. I may have heard this before, but I don't have the album.... and reading up on some of this community's comments from 2003, it looks like owning the title track is essentially all you need. Wow, though. Nice to be kicked in the butt every once in a while by some music.... leave it to Morricone!
posted 02-22-2007 12:21 AM PT (US) Camillu
Standard Userer
I got this this morning and am loving it. There's a good number of new reocrdings, along with a few selections from recent collaborations like Focus and Yo-Yo Ma... and every track bridges wonderfully into the next track with new orchestral links composed and edited by Morricone. This is a very well-made album and one that should appeal to everyone, whether score fanatic or not. I'm glad that a couple of Morricone's themes are presented in their pure orchestral form, but all the vocal renditions are great too. Great stuff.
posted 02-27-2007 09:37 AM PT (US) Old Infopop Software by UBB