Track listing:
01 The Overture (03:45)
02 Prologue/The Chase (02:47)
03 Church Music/Sneaking Away (01:46)
04 The Long Trek (05:11)
05 The Assault (01:29)
06 The Bandits/Leon Tied/Bleeding Statue (02:46)
07 Love Theme From Guns for San Sebastian (Kinita's Plea)
(02:01)
08 Restoring the Village (01:08)
09 Teclo Shamed/Surveying the Fields (02:04)
10 Building the Dam/Hymn for San Sebastian (01:26)
11 Leon Fights Teclo (01:56)
12 The Burning Village (02:36)
13 Love Theme From Guns for San Sebastian (Leon Tells His
Love) (02:52)
14 Love Theme From Guns for San Sebastian (Leon Leaves Kinita)
(02:53)
15 Music at the Governor's Dinner (01:51)
16 Army March/Yaqui Camp (01:41)
17 The White Stallion (01:33)
18 The Gift (03:23)
19 Gift Returned/Leon's Mass/The Attack (03:34)
20 The Villagers Prepare to Blow Up the Dam (01:27)
21 Teclo's Death/Victory (01:56)
22 End Title (04:01)
Bonus Tracks:
23 The Chase (alternate) (01:54)
24 Love Theme From Guns for San Sebastian (Leon Tells His
Love) (album version) (02:51)
note:
Silver Age Classics series
Complete score
ENG
It has taken eight years and over 130 CDs but FSM finally
releases a score by the great Ennio Morricone: Guns for
San Sebastian (1968), commonly known as a western but more
accurately a historical adventure set in Mexico circa 1750.
The film stars Anthony Quinn as an outlaw who is mistaken
for a priest and protects a humble village against a violent
tribe of Indians; Charles Bronson is the antagonist and
Anjanette Comer the love interest. Filmed in Mexico, the
international production is a sunburnt, action-packed look
at a violent time in colonial Latin American history.
The late 1960s were an especially fertile period for Ennio
Morricone, whose prolific genius has enhanced hundreds of
films for over 40 years. By 1968 Morricone had already scored
the groundbreaking Dollars trilogy for Sergio Leone -- establishing
the revolutionary style for the "spaghetti" westerns
-- and Guns for San Sebastian preceded their western masterpiece,
Once Upon a Time in the West. In both films, the operatic
grandeur of Morricone's transcendent themes enhance the
spiritual journey of a stranger in a strange land, orchestrated
for choir as well as orchestra; in Guns for San Sebastian,
voices appears for the "religion" theme (for Quinn's
priest friend) and the love theme, the latter featuring
the voice of Edda Dell'Orso.
Guns for San Sebastian is also an action film and Morricone
responded with violent, percussive music for the Yaquis
Indians, with vocal cries by Gianna Spagnulo (who also performed
on Morricone's Navajo Joe and Moses). In addition, Morricone
wrote heartfelt, deceptively simple melodies for the peasants
whose humanity grounds the story, and unique cues as needed
for scenes of action, suspense and humor.
Guns for San Sebastian has been available on LP and CD over
the years, but always in a brief (33:24) program with deficient
sound quality. This premiere CD of the complete score (resequenced
in film order) has been remixed and remastered from the
original 1/2" stereo tapes (recorded in Italy) for
superior sound quality. It is the definitive presentation
of this classic Morricone score.
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