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Once Upon a Time... The Essential Ennio Morricone

C. A. Luster | Burke, VA USA | 03/26/2009

(5 out of 5 stars)

"I swear these sound exactly like the original soundtracks. Listen for yourself and good luck discerning if they aren't. I think I have a pretty good ear for it as being a movie buff for years I think music is a key part of making a movie a hit or not. Furthermore music is what often helps make a movie a classic. Would the movie Casablanca been as good without "As Time Goes By" and the rest of the great music in the movie? This two CD set includes most of Ennio Morricones greatest works. I highly recommend it. The City of Prague Orchestra, conductors, and singers make this a memorable experience. Great quality CDs with great replayability.



CA Luster"

Excellence!

tjguitar | 04/21/2007

(5 out of 5 stars)

"These recordings range back to 1994, with a number of tracks being from Silva Screen's "Music from the Films of Clint Eatwood" compilation, with Derek Wadsworth conducting the City of Prague Philharmonic.



Those tracks are: "The Good, The Bad and The Ugly", "A Fistful of DOllars", "For a Few Dollars More", and "Two Mules for Sister Sara". "In The Line Of Fire' also appeared on that CD, performed electronically by Mark Ayres.





The next bunch of tracks is from Silva Screen's 1996 compilation, "Cinema Paradise: The Classic Film Music of Ennio Morricone", which included the majority of tracks here such as the extensive The Mission Suite, The Untouchables, Casulaties of War, Once Upon a Time In America, 1900, Chi Mai, Marco Polo, Once Upon a Time In The West (two tracks), Cinema Paradise, and The Good the Bad and the Ugly - Ecstacy of Gold, mostly being conducted by Paul Bateman, with Nic Raine doing some of the conducting duties as well.



Hamlet is from Silva's 1997 "Cinema's Classic Romances" compilation, while "The Thing" is from Silva's 2001 "Essential John Carpenter".



A Fistful of Dynamite - Duck You Sucker is from 2002's Way Out West: Essential Western Film Music Collection Volume Two.



The remaing tracks were newly recorded in 2004 for this release:

Days of Heaven, Exorcist II, Guns for San Sebastian, Moses the Lawgiver, My Name is Nobody, The Five Man Army, The Red Tent, The Men From Shiloh and The Sicilian Clan.



Highly recommended."