Music is a crucial element in every Oscar-winning film. In this concert you will be taken on a musical journey through the sounds of the greatest Oscar winners of all time, from classics like Casablanca and Citizen Kane to monumental cinematic works like The Godfather and blockbusters like Forrest Gump - blockbusters with music, that for almost a century have made us shudder, melt and cry in the darkness of the cinema.

The Thing (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) is the soundtrack album to the 1982 horror film The Thing, directed by John Carpenter. Ennio Morricone and Carpenter serve as composers. The album was released by MCA Records in 1982, in conjunction with the film's release.

Spectacular western movies and moments to remember from and with Maestro Morricone himself. Ennio Morricone composed over 400 scores for cinema and television, as well as over 100 classical works. He was not only well known for iconic western soundtracks but also for film music for socially critical films and movies like “Cinema Paradiso”, “The Desert of the Tartars” and “The Working Class Goes to Heaven”. Ennio Morricone was interested in a variety of things and socially committed. Morricone cannot be reduced to western film music as he surely is one of the most successful composers of all time. This concert from 2004 with the Münchner Rundfunkorchester is one of the very few recordings where he conducts his own music. It was the first public appearance of the Maestro conducting his own music in Germany and is now available for the first time on all DSPs and on CD. The album contains a representative collection of his most famous film music including The Good, the Bad and the Ugly, Once Upon a Time in the West, A Fistful of Dynamite, Once Upon a Time in America, Cinema Paradiso, The Untouchables and many more.

Arguably a milestone for both director Sergio Leone and his musical cohort Ennio Morricone. After deconstructing the classic American western by way of The Good, the Bad & the Ugly and A Fistful of Dollars, Leone distilled his intentions with 1968's Once Upon a Time in the West. For his part, Morricone framed Leone's meditative camerawork and mythic narrative with a mix of hauntingly spacious pieces and reconfigured snatches of old-timey tunes. Just within the stretch of the first four pieces here, Morricone evokes the endless expanse of the West with a Copland-esque aria (the main title theme), weaves some twisted grit into the showdown theme with loads of guitar fuzz ("As a Judgment"), ingeniously combines whistling and a clippity-clop rhythm for a respite piece ("Farewell to Cheyenne")…

"The Thriller Collection" is a compilation album by Ennio Morricone, released on May 1, 1999, under the DRG Records label. This two-disc set features a selection of Morricone's thriller film scores composed between 1969 and 1984.

In 1967 Morricone was at the peak of his career, and his score for Diabolik can be ranked among his most spectacular achievements. It is quite amazing that no official album was ever released. Only a couple of bootlegs saw the light, based on the soundtrack of the movie, providing a fairly faithful account of the movie's atmosphere and of the music content. Their approach was paradoxical however: carefully taking out the parts of the music which were covered over by dialogue, but also adding dialogue tracks without music. Here again, the Solisti manage to reproduce the musical footage with a level of quality and genuine respect for the composer's genius that is close to perfection. Those who believe it impossible to achieve the feeling and unique emotion of the period, should think again. In the present edition, additional music has been included, most notably a new version of the song. It includes a 24 page booklet with critical notes & listener’s guide.

Another one of Ennio Morricone's acclaimed spaghetti Western film scores, reissued by Recording Arts Italy. Once Upon A Time In The West is most likely Sergio Leone's most famous film after A Fistful Of Dollars and The Good, The Bad And The Ugly; Morricone had already lent his compositional hand to both of the former and was by this point a resident favourite in Leone's filmmaking cabinet. This original score was begun before principal photography had even taken place, demonstrating Leone's trust in Morricone to produce a great soundtrack without the need for a visual aid. Leone, in fact, was famously known to have played Morricone's soundtrack during filming, which enabled the embedding of Morricone's polar sound (from haunting to jaunty) in the scenes as they were shot.

Beat Records Company Publishing Group in collaboration with Universal Music Publishing Ricordi and EMI Music Publishing is proud to present the complete edition of the 60th anniversary of the original motion picture soundtrack of the second movie of The Dollars Trilogy, For a Few Dollars More, featuring the score by Ennio Morricone. One of the most waited scores by the Maestro fans, and from Sergio Leone's cinema and music lovers, a project that finally is born thanks to the finding of the score in Beat Records archives, right in time to celebrate the 60th year of life of this cinematic masterpiece by Sergio Leone with Clint Eastwood, Lee Van Cleef and Gian Maria Volontè.A soundtrack so much yearned, now finally available compete with the original RCA album program and unreleased tracks to reach the length of 66 minutes of pure Morricone western sound. A masterpiece finally available to everybody thanks to this Deluxe edition on CD in our CDX series, mastering by Claudio Fuiano and Daniel Winkler, 24 pages booklet with Averardo Ciriello cover, external hard paper tunnel with Renato Casaro cover while on the back we have a portrait of Ennio Morricone portrait drawn by Claudio Fuiano, liner notes and graphic layout by Daniele de Gemini. A limited edition that can't be missing from your collection.

The Orchestre Philharmonique de Strasbourg has a long history reflecting its home city's location near the border between France and Germany. Designated as one of France's national orchestras, it has an international reputation and has toured widely.

Ennio Morricone was probably the most famous film composer of the 20th century. He was also one of the most prolific composers working in any medium. No exact figure is available, but he scored over 500 films over several decades, plus many dozens of classical works. While his film scores were in almost every imaginable musical style (and for almost every imaginable kind of movie), he was most identified with the "spaghetti Western" style of soundtracks, which he pioneered when providing the musical backdrop for the films of director Sergio Leone. Morricone's palette was extraordinarily diverse, drawing from classical, jazz, pop, rock, electronic, avant-garde, and Italian music, among other styles.

Ennio Morricone is considered one of the greatest composers in film history and has composed theme songs for cult films such as Once Upon a Time in the West, For a Few Dollars More, Cinema Paradiso, The Good, the Bad and the Ugly, The Untouchables, Kill Bill and most recently Django Unchained. The Essential Ennio Morricone is the ultimate double album with the greatest hits of this icon of film music. Morricone is a legend and the only composer to receive an Oscar for his lifetime achievement. He was also nominated for five other Oscars and received two Grammy Awards and two Golden Globes. Morricone's extraordinary music mixes influences from classical, jazz, pop, rock, electronic and Italian music to create epic and emotional soundscapes of incomparable intensity. The Essential Ennio Morricone contains over 2 1/2 hours of music and all of Morricone's classics and hits. Not just for fans of film music: The Essential Ennio Morricone is the essential Morricone collection.

"Tepepa," also known as "Blood and Guns," is a spaghetti Western film directed by Giulio Petroni, released in 1969. The movie stars Tomas Milian as the titular character, a Mexican revolutionary leader, and Orson Welles as Colonel Cascorro, his adversary. The film is set during the Mexican Revolution and explores themes of justice, revenge, and political struggle.
Ennio Morricone's expanded edition soundtrack for "Tepepa" enhances the film's dramatic narrative with a richly evocative score. Known for his masterful compositions in the spaghetti Western genre, Morricone combines orchestral and folk elements to capture the revolutionary spirit and emotional depth of the story. This expanded edition includes additional tracks that were not present in the original release, offering listeners a more comprehensive experience of Morricone's powerful and memorable musical landscapes.

The Legend of 1900[Original Motion Picture Soundtrack] Review by Steve Huey
The Legend of 1900 marks the first collaboration between director Giuseppe Tornatore and legendary film composer Ennio Morricone since 1989's critically adored Cinema Paradiso, and the results are worth the wait. The film concerns a virtuoso pianist, so the opportunities for stunning musical performances are plentiful; Morricone's score is embellished by pieces from ragtime legends Scott Joplin and Jelly Roll Morton, as well as an original rock ballad with lyrics written and sung by Roger Waters and guitar work from Eddie Van Halen.

Quartet Records presents a 50th-anniversary remastered edition of the innovative, cult-classic score by Ennio Morricone, a key work which launched one of the composer’s best known themes. Directed by Jerzy Kawalerowicz in 1971, Maddalena is a one-off venture of the Polish director into the territory of Italian cinema. Starring Lisa Gastoni as the title character and Eric Woofe as the priest whose faith she tests, the movie is an erotic drama focused on poetic sex scenes, psychedelic flashbacks and deviant erotic games all mixed into a beautiful fever dream. Maddalena is a relatively obscure entry in the Morricone filmography despite the importance of launching “Chi mai,” one of the composer best-known cues and famous worldwide a decade later when it was re-used in the film Le Professionel.

Quartet Records presents a remastered CD reissue of Ennio Morricone's bizarre giallo score for the 1974 thriller L'ultimo Uomo di Sara (Sarah's Last Man). Directed by actress Maria Virginia Onorato (in her only foray into feature film directing), the movie stars Oddo Bracci as Paolo Castellano, an artist who wants to investigate the death of his ex-wife Sara long after the police declare the case closed. Aided by Sara’s friend Anna (played by Rosemary Dexter), Paolo goes through the hours of footage shot by Sara on her camera, slowly realizing that the identity of the killer is captured on film and his identity might be one of the reasons why the police wants the case closed as soon as possible.