Track listing:
01. Gradimento Primo (from Tepepa)
02. Giu La Testa (from Giu La Testa)
03. Mesa Verde (from Giù La Testa)
04. I Crudeli Number 2 (from I Crudeli)
05. Minacciosamente Lontano (from I Crudeli)
06. I Crudeli (The Widow) (from I Crudeli)
07. Il Mio Nome E Nessune (from Il Mio Nome E Nessune)
08. Arriva Cuchillo (from La Resa Dei Conti)
09. La Corrida (from La Resa Dei Conti)
10. La Vedova (from La Resa Dei Conti)
11. Il Pinguino (from Vamos a Matar, Companeros)
12. Un Uomo In Agguago (from Vamos a Matar, Companeros)
13. Il Pinguino (Reprise) (from Vamos a Matar, Companeros)
14. Estasi (from Il Mercenario)
15. Dopo L'esplosione (from Giu La Testa)
16. Mucchio Selvaggio (from Il Mio Nome E Nessune)
17. Ricciolo (from Il Mercenario)
18. L'arena (from Il Mercenario)
note:
In composing the scores for the Spaghetti Westerns of Sergio
Leone with their sparse arrangements, eerie tunes and unorthodox
instrumentation (bells, church organs, harmonicas, slashing
Spanish & electric guitars), Ennio Morricone at once
revolutionised film music and from as far away as his base
in Rome made the American western his own.
Morricone's theme for "The Good The Bad & The Ugly"
is arguably the most famous piece of music ever recorded
for film. Director and composer are inseparable; the coordination
of action and music such as to prompt some scholars to compare
Leone's films to opera; images and sounds that are rich,
solemn and often startling.
On "Morricone Kill" the achingly beautiful melodies
for Leone's "A Fistful Of Dynamite" establish
the magical Morricone atmosphere; the programme comprising
three beautiful cuts from this film along with selections
from lesser known westerns all of which are charged with
extraordinary music.
Sergio Sollima's "Resa Dei Conti (The Big Gundown)"
is generally considered to be the finest spaghetti western
not directed by Leone and stars the splendid Lee Van Cleef;
Van Cleef emerging from retirement to become (along with
Clint Eastwood) the leading name of the genre and one of
the ten biggest box office draws in Europe.
Joseph Cotton stars in Sergio Corbucci's "I Crudeli"
Franco Nero and Jack Palance in both "Il Mercenario"
and "Vamos a Matar Companeros" and the immense
Orson Welles is colonel cooscorro, the chief of police,
in "Tepepa" (Blood and Guns).
James Coburn and Rod Steiger combine famously in "A
Fistful Of Dynamite" and Henry Fonda, who years earlier
had starred in the prodigious "Once upon a time in
the west", returns to the genre for "My Name Is
Nobody" Sergio Leone's biographer Prof. Christopher
Frayling's quotation about the stereo effect of the spaghetti
western perfectly captures the mood, "one speaker is
a fairy story, the other, brutal and nasty. A fabulous combination"
L'arena from "Il Mercenario" also featured in
part two of Quentin Tarantino's "Kill Bill"
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