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Ennio Morricone - Le Professionnel: Original Soundtrack (1981) Limited Reissue 2014 [Re-Up]

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Date: 15 Sep 2021 15:20:34

Ennio Morricone - Le Professionnel: Original Soundtrack (1981) Limited Reissue 2014 [Re-Up]

Music Box Records is pleased to reissue the classic Ennio Morricone soundtrack for Le Professionnel, one of the Maestro’s best known scores and themes that attained fame all over the world. Supervised and mastered by Claudio Fuiano, the soundtrack has the same program as the limited edition GDM CD released in 2002 that had been going for unreasonable prices on the secondary market.

For a long time, Le Professionnel has been notable for being one of the best-known Morricone scores even though very little of the composer’s music actually written for the film survived in the final cut. Instead of using the cues Morricone actually penned, director Georges Lautner and more importantly star Jean-Paul Belmondo decided to use a recording of "Chi Mai" a very famous Morricone composition that has been used and recorded in a number of different projects. The first appearance of the famous "Chi Mai" melody was in Maddalena (1971) and was later recorded as a pop song (in several languages) and a so-called disco instrumental was done in 1978. It was this recording that was used in Le Professionnel and is known as the theme from the film (even though it wasn’t specifically written for it).
As per usual, Morricone recorded longer, album only variations of his two primary motives: "Le vent, le cri" and his so called "Bach" motive whose album version was named "Le retour". The first theme represents Beaumont’s character, while the second one was designed as a sort of vengeance motive. The variations made for the film were featured on CDs as well, but due to the random nature of the naming and the random placement of the cues in the film, there’s a whole lot of music you never get to hear within the movie.

For those who missed the previous GDM edition, Music Box Records makes this new remastered definitive edition available once again. The limited edition of 500 copies comes with an 8-page booklet with French and English commentary by Laurent Perret.

One of several major scores done by Ennio Morricone for films starring Jean-Paul Belmondo, Le Professionnel is an interesting hybrid of orchestral and contemporary music, combining the elegance of the former with the sinewy muscularity of the latter. Interwoven with vivid string parts are equally vibrant bass and drums in the title theme, and ominous, forbidding underscoring that comes off even more striking when fully exposed, as on this CD. Listeners get the expected moments of full-flowing lyricism from the violins and stings from the piano, mostly evoking desperation, isolation, and resolve, all of which are so prominent that when the reeds, horns, and brass show up, in relatively restrained fashion, it's all the more striking. This album stands well on its own, though it has also been folded into a DRGcompilation of Morricone scores for Belmondo's work, entitled 3 Complete Soundtracks: Le Professionnel/Le Marginal/Le Casse.

Review by Bruce Eder, Allmusic.com

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~ Film at Wiki

Tracklist:

01. Le vent, le cri (Premier Theme) (05:20)
02. Bach (Premiere Variation) (01:20)
03. Le vent, le cri (Premiere Variation) (00:26)
04. Le vent, le cri (Generique) (01:48)
05. Decision finale (01:23)
06. Le vent, le cri (Deuxieme Variation) (02:37)
07. Le vent, le cri (Troisieme Variation) (02:14)
08. Le vent, le cri (Quatrieme Variation) (01:46)
09. D'Afrique (Premiere Version) (02:12)
10. Le retour (sur le nom de Bach) (05:28)
11. Le vent, le cri (Cinquieme Variation) (01:48)
12. Bach (Deuxieme Variation) (01:30)
13. Le vent, le cri (Sixieme Variation) (01:16)
14. Le retour (Bach - Troisieme Variation) (00:53)
15. Le vent, le cri (Septieme Variation) (02:25)
16. Le vent, le cri (Changement D'Octave) (00:52)
17. D'Afrique (Deuxieme Version) (02:09)
18. Le vent, le cri (Neuvieme Variation) (02:40)
19. Le retour (Bach - Quatrieme Variation) (01:01)
20. Le vent, le cri (Dixieme Variation) (02:26)
21. Le retour (Bach - Cinquieme Variation) (00:42)
22. Le vent, le cri (Onzieme Variation) (00:39)
23. Le vent, le cri (Douzieme Variation) (01:19)
24. Le vent, le cri (Treizieme Variation) (02:42)
25. Chi mai (03:27)

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