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The two-disc Once Upon a Time: The Essential Ennio Morricone is a serviceable but unexciting overview of some of the highlights of the Italian soundtrack master's enormous catalog. Because it's designed for the newcomer and the casual fan, the play list consists almost entirely of songs that will be overly familiar to those who have been following Morricone's career for some time, with the umpteenth iteration of the spaghetti Western themes filling nearly the entirety of the first disc while ignoring the more obscure but equally interesting work the composer did in other musical and cinematic styles during the same period. However, disc two is a nicely varied collection of songs from Morricone's '80s and '90s work, a mature period in his musical career with essential highlights like the lovely, haunted "The Mission" and the sentimentally nostalgic "Cinema Paradiso." Because of the ongoing interest in Morricone's earlier work, his equally fine later scores are too often ignored, and disc two of this collection is a solid starting point for those who want to move on from "A Fistful of Dynamite: Duck, You Sucker." Again, however, established fans will find little they're not already familiar with.
© Stewart Mason /TiVo
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Paul Bateman, Conductor - The City Of Prague Philharmonic Orchestra, Orchestra, MainArtist - Gareth Williams, Keyboards, AssociatedPerformer - Ennio Morricone, Composer, Keyboards, AssociatedPerformer - James Fitzpatrick, Producer - Crouch End Festival Chorus, Choir - Jill Washington, Vocals, Soprano, AssociatedPerformer
℗ 1996 Universal Music Operations Limited
The City Of Prague Philharmonic Orchestra, Orchestra, MainArtist - Ennio Morricone, Composer - Derek Wadsworth, Conductor - Crouch End Festival Chorus, Choir
℗ 1993 Universal Music Operations Limited
The City Of Prague Philharmonic Orchestra, Orchestra, MainArtist - Gareth Williams, Keyboards, AssociatedPerformer - Ennio Morricone, Composer - Derek Wadsworth, Conductor - Mark Ayres, Guitar, AssociatedPerformer - Crouch End Festival Chorus, Choir
℗ 1998 Universal Music Operations Limited
The City Of Prague Philharmonic Orchestra, MainArtist - Ennio Morricone, Composer, Keyboards, AssociatedPerformer - Nicholas Charles Raine, Conductor
℗ 2013 Universal Music Operations Limited
The City Of Prague Philharmonic Orchestra, Orchestra, MainArtist - Ennio Morricone, Composer - James Fitzpatrick, Conductor - Prague Philharmonic Choir, Choir - Crouch End Festival Chorus, Choir
℗ 2004 Universal Music Operations Limited
The City Of Prague Philharmonic Orchestra, Orchestra, MainArtist - Ennio Morricone, Composer - James Fitzpatrick, Producer - Nic Raine, Conductor, MainArtist - Maria Travia, Composer - Jill Washington, Soprano, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer
℗ 1996 Universal Music Operations Limited
The City Of Prague Philharmonic Orchestra, MainArtist - Ennio Morricone, Composer - James Fitzpatrick, Conductor
℗ 2013 Universal Music Operations Limited
The City Of Prague Philharmonic Orchestra, MainArtist - Ennio Morricone, Composer - David Temple, Conductor, Chorus Conductor - Nic Raine, Conductor - Prague Philharmonic Choir, Choir - Crouch End Festival Chorus, Choir - Nicholas Charles Raine, Conductor, Recording Arranger, AssociatedPerformer
℗ 2004 Universal Music Operations Limited
The City Of Prague Philharmonic Orchestra, Orchestra, MainArtist - Ennio Morricone, Composer, Conductor - Crouch End Festival Chorus, Choir
℗ 1993 Universal Music Operations Limited
The City Of Prague Philharmonic Orchestra, Orchestra, MainArtist - Gareth Williams, Keyboards, AssociatedPerformer - Ennio Morricone, Composer - David Temple, Conductor, Chorus Conductor - Nic Raine, Conductor - Crouch End Festival Chorus, Choir - Charlotte Kinder, Vocals, AssociatedPerformer - Charlotte Kempster, Vocals, AssociatedPerformer - Nicholas Charles Raine, Conductor
℗ 2001 Universal Music Operations Limited
Gareth Williams, Keyboards, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Ennio Morricone, Composer - Crouch End Festival Chorus, Choir, MainArtist
℗ 2011 Universal Music Operations Limited
The City Of Prague Philharmonic Orchestra, Orchestra, MainArtist - Gareth Williams, Keyboards, AssociatedPerformer - Ennio Morricone, Composer - David Temple, Conductor, Chorus Conductor - James Fitzpatrick, Producer - Derek Wadsworth, Conductor - Crouch End Festival Chorus, Choir
℗ 1998 Universal Music Operations Limited
The City Of Prague Philharmonic Orchestra, Orchestra, MainArtist - Gareth Williams, Keyboards, AssociatedPerformer - Ennio Morricone, Composer - Derek Wadsworth, Conductor, Keyboards, AssociatedPerformer - Crouch End Festival Chorus, Choir - Charlotte Kinder, Vocals, AssociatedPerformer - Charlotte Kempster, Vocals, AssociatedPerformer
℗ 1998 Universal Music Operations Limited
Paul Bateman, Conductor, Piano, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - The City Of Prague Philharmonic Orchestra, Orchestra, MainArtist - Ennio Morricone, Composer - Andrea Morricone, Composer
℗ 2005 Universal Music Operations Limited
The City Of Prague Philharmonic Orchestra, Orchestra, MainArtist - Ennio Morricone, Composer - Nic Raine, Conductor, MainArtist - Jill Washington, Vocals, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer
℗ 2013 Universal Music Operations Limited
DISC 2
Paul Bateman, Conductor - The City Of Prague Philharmonic Orchestra, Orchestra, MainArtist - Ennio Morricone, Composer - James Fitzpatrick, Producer
℗ 2013 Universal Music Operations Limited
The City Of Prague Philharmonic Orchestra, MainArtist - Ennio Morricone, Composer - David Temple, Conductor, Chorus Conductor - Crouch End Festival Chorus, Choir - Charlotte Kinder, Vocals, AssociatedPerformer - Charlotte Kempster, Vocals, AssociatedPerformer - Nicholas Charles Raine, Conductor
℗ 2013 Universal Music Operations Limited
The City Of Prague Philharmonic Orchestra, Orchestra, MainArtist - Gareth Williams, Piano, AssociatedPerformer - Ennio Morricone, Composer - Prague Philharmonic Choir, Choir - Nicholas Charles Raine, Conductor
℗ 2013 Universal Music Operations Limited
The City Of Prague Philharmonic Orchestra, MainArtist - Ennio Morricone, Composer - David Temple, Conductor, Chorus Conductor - Nic Raine, Conductor - Crouch End Festival Chorus, Choir - Charlotte Kinder, Vocals, AssociatedPerformer - Charlotte Kempster, Vocals, AssociatedPerformer - Nicholas Charles Raine, Conductor
℗ 2004 Universal Music Operations Limited
The City Of Prague Philharmonic Orchestra, Orchestra, MainArtist - Ennio Morricone, Composer - Marie Kopecka, Vocals, AssociatedPerformer - Nicholas Charles Raine, Conductor, Recording Arranger, AssociatedPerformer
℗ 2004 Universal Music Operations Limited
Ennio Morricone, Composer, Keyboards, AssociatedPerformer - Mark Ayres, Keyboards, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer
℗ 1993 Universal Music Operations Limited
Gareth Williams, Keyboards, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Ennio Morricone, Composer, Conductor, Keyboards, AssociatedPerformer
℗ 2002 Universal Music Operations Limited
Paul Bateman, Conductor - The City Of Prague Philharmonic Orchestra, Orchestra, MainArtist - Ennio Morricone, Composer - Prague Philharmonic Choir, Choir - Mark Ayres, Keyboards, AssociatedPerformer - Nicholas Charles Raine, Conductor
℗ 2013 Universal Music Operations Limited
The City Of Prague Philharmonic Orchestra, Orchestra, MainArtist - Ennio Morricone, Composer - James Fitzpatrick, Producer - Nicholas Charles Raine, Conductor
℗ 1998 Universal Music Operations Limited
Paul Bateman, Conductor - The City Of Prague Philharmonic Orchestra, Orchestra, MainArtist - Ennio Morricone, Composer - Nicholas Charles Raine, Conductor
℗ 2011 Universal Music Operations Limited
Paul Bateman, Conductor - The City Of Prague Philharmonic Orchestra, Orchestra, MainArtist - Ennio Morricone, Composer - Nicholas Charles Raine, Conductor
℗ 2004 Universal Music Operations Limited
Paul Bateman, Conductor - The City Of Prague Philharmonic Orchestra, MainArtist - Ennio Morricone, Composer, Keyboards, AssociatedPerformer - Nicholas Charles Raine, Conductor
℗ 2004 Universal Music Operations Limited
Paul Bateman, Conductor - The City Of Prague Philharmonic Orchestra, MainArtist - Ennio Morricone, Composer, Conductor
℗ 1986 Universal Music Operations Limited
Paul Bateman, Conductor, Keyboards, AssociatedPerformer - The City Of Prague Philharmonic Orchestra, Orchestra, MainArtist - Ennio Morricone, Composer - David Temple, Conductor, Chorus Conductor - James Fitzpatrick, Producer - Crouch End Festival Chorus, Choir
℗ 1998 Universal Music Operations Limited
Paul Bateman, Conductor - The City Of Prague Philharmonic Orchestra, Orchestra - Ennio Morricone, Composer - David Temple, Conductor - James Fitzpatrick, Producer - Crouch End Festival Chorus, Choir, MainArtist
℗ 1996 Universal Music Operations Limited
Paul Bateman, Conductor - The City Of Prague Philharmonic Orchestra, Orchestra, MainArtist - Ennio Morricone, Composer - David Temple, Conductor, Chorus Conductor - James Fitzpatrick, Producer - Crouch End Festival Chorus, Choir
℗ 1996 Universal Music Operations Limited
Paul Bateman, Conductor - The City Of Prague Philharmonic Orchestra, Orchestra, MainArtist - Ennio Morricone, Composer
℗ 1996 Universal Music Operations Limited
Album review
The two-disc Once Upon a Time: The Essential Ennio Morricone is a serviceable but unexciting overview of some of the highlights of the Italian soundtrack master's enormous catalog. Because it's designed for the newcomer and the casual fan, the play list consists almost entirely of songs that will be overly familiar to those who have been following Morricone's career for some time, with the umpteenth iteration of the spaghetti Western themes filling nearly the entirety of the first disc while ignoring the more obscure but equally interesting work the composer did in other musical and cinematic styles during the same period. However, disc two is a nicely varied collection of songs from Morricone's '80s and '90s work, a mature period in his musical career with essential highlights like the lovely, haunted "The Mission" and the sentimentally nostalgic "Cinema Paradiso." Because of the ongoing interest in Morricone's earlier work, his equally fine later scores are too often ignored, and disc two of this collection is a solid starting point for those who want to move on from "A Fistful of Dynamite: Duck, You Sucker." Again, however, established fans will find little they're not already familiar with.
© Stewart Mason /TiVo
About the album
- 2 disc(s) - 32 track(s)
- Total length: 01:52:37
- Main artists: The City Of Prague Philharmonic Orchestra
- Composer: Various Composers
- Label: Decca (UMO) (Classics)
- Genre: Soundtracks Film Soundtracks
© 2004 Universal Music Operations Limited This Compilation ℗ 2004 Universal Music Operations Limited
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