Ennio Morricone
Ennio Morricone is a unique figure in the history of film music: composer, orchestrator, conductor and former trumpet player, who has written music for more than 500 motion pictures and television series, as well as contemporary classical works.. Morricone was born in Rome, the son of a jazz trumpet player, in 1928. He was a precocious musician, starting to compose at the age of six, and studied harmony and composition at the Santa Cecilia Conservatory.
Ennio Morricone is a unique figure in the history of film music: composer, orchestrator, conductor and former trumpet player, who has written music for more than 500 motion pictures and television series, as well as contemporary classical works.. Morricone was born in Rome, the son of a jazz trumpet player, in 1928. He was a precocious musician, starting to compose at the age of six, and studied harmony and composition at the Santa Cecilia Conservatory.
I Malamondo
Restored & Remastered From The Original Master Tapes On 2LP! Another great Morricone score to the 1964 "mondo film," a type of sensationalist pseudo-documentary (also known as a "shockumentary"). The film, directed by Paolo Cavara, dealt with bizarre activities in Europe, including a cemetery orgy and nudist skiing in the Swiss Alps.
This soundtrack has been restored and remastered from the original master tapes. It features seven unreleased tracks and two tracks released on vinyl for the very…
Dimensioni Sonore
Widely celebrated and easily among the most ambitious and beautiful endeavors of the last year, the "Dimensioni Sonore" box is truly a stunning thing to behold. Thankfully, Dialogo has repressed this wonder in a brand-new edition of 250 copies on red vinyl. If you weren’t able to grab a copy the first time around, this is a once in a lifetime chance that can’t be missed.
Il Bandito dagli Occhi Azzurri
** Record Store Day special exclusive, limited edition transparent blue vinyl ** This exclusive Record Store Day Limited Edition of Ennio Morricone's score to "The Blue-eyed Bandit" has been remastered from the original tapes, preserved in the historical CAM Sugar archives, presented on transparent blue vinyl with new original artwork designed by Eric Adrian Lee, featuring liner notes by Italian poliziotteschi star Franco Nero & Morricone’s jazz pianist Enrico Pieranunzi.
One of the very rare ch…
Il Giro del Mondo degli Innamorati di Peynet
Beat Records is happy to present on CD the original score by Alessandro Alessandroni with love theme by Ennio Morricone for Il Giro del Mondo degli Innamorati di Peynet (aka Le Tour du Monde des Amoreux de Peynet) a 1974 animated movie directed by Cesare Perfetto, with a screenplay by Cesare Perfetto, Raymond Peynet and Vezio Melegari. For this masterpiece of Italian animation (which enjoyed incredible success in Japan), Alessandro Alessandroni composed a simply delicious musical score describin…
The chosen (Holocaust 2000)
The Chosen (Holocaust 2000) is a 1977 horror film directed by Alberto De Martino featuring a stellar cast that saw Kirk Douglas in the role of Robert Caine, a wealthy industrialist faced with the danger of a nuclear disaster planned by none other than the antichrist himself. Engaged in the design of a nuclear power plant in the Third World, Caine's opponents begin to disappear one by one, but soon the plot will take an unexpected turn. Ennio Morricone, two-time Oscar winner (first for his career…
Duello nel Texas
** 2021 Stock ** Digitmovies, with collaboration of Gruppo Sugar, issues Ennio Morricone's complete original soundtrack, in mono, for the 1963 western movie Duello Nel Texas ("Gunfight At The Red Sands"). Directed in 1963 by Ricardo Blasco and starring Richard Harrison, Giacomo Rossi Stuart, and Mikaela. The village of Carteville on the border to Mexico is in danger from a mysterious and dangerous gang of thugs. One night the band assaults the house of a Mexican family, including an orphan of Am…
L'Harem
** 2021 Stock. The CD comes in a jewel case with a 12-page booklet designed by Alessio Iannuzzi, liner notes and mastering by Claudio Fuiano ** L'Harem was directed in 1967 by Marco Ferreri and starred Carroll Baker, Gastone Moschin, William Berger and Renato Salvatori. It tells the story of three men entangled in a relationship with the wonderful Carroll, who can't choose between them. Following their suggestion, she lures them to an isolated villa, like a real harem with the roles inverted. Th…
Dalle Ardenne all'Inferno
** 2021 Stock. The CD features a 2 folds Digipack plasticized box in limited edition, numbered from 0001 to 1000 in the second page. Inside a 24x36 cm poster featuring original artworks, rare pics and liner notes edited by Claudio Fuiano. ** Beat Records makes use of a particular care for this miracolus edition fo the original motion picture soundtrack of the movie Dalle Ardenne all'Inferno. Previously edited in LP and CD, out of stock since a lot of time, was known for only 5 surviving Mono tra…
Bandits in Rome
Quartet Records and Paramount Pictures present the world premiere release of the highly requested score by Ennio Morricone and Bruno Nicolai for Alberto de Martino’s gangster film Bandits In Rome (aka Roma Come Chicago). The film stars John Cassavetes as professional hold-up man Corda, who teams up with hot-headed Enrico to carry out his heists. Corda has principles – as a family man, he refuses to kill anyone – but when he is arrested after their latest heist, his uncontrolled companion starts …
The Thing
Quartet Records, Geffen Records and Universal Music Special Markets present the long-awaited remastered reissue of Ennio Morricone’s iconic score for the no-less-iconic John Carpenter sci-fi/horror film The Thing (1982). Although Carpenter himself (in collaboration with Alan Howarth) had scored his five previous films, he turned to the Italian maestro to compose the original score for The Thing since it was his first film with a big studio budget. Due to scheduling conflicts, Morricone composed …
Uccidete il Vitello Grasso e Arrostitelo
Genius soundtrack work from Ennio Morricone, a psych-baroque journey with typical beat arrangements, crazy organs solos, wah-wah guitars and tense harpsichord phrases
I due evasi di Sing Sing
Edition of 500. Quartet proudly announces the first CD edition of Ennio Morricone's soundtrack to the film "I due evasi di Sing Sing " from 1964, directed by the legendary Lucio Fulci and starring the famed Italian comedy characters Franco Franchi and Ciccio Ingrassia. The label presents a pseudo unreleased gem by the greatest all-time composer at the beginning of his career. The album was originally released on an impossible-to-find promo-only library release in the late '60s with different tit…
The Good, The Bad And The Ugly
Quartet Records, in collaboration with Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, Capitol Records and Universal Music Enterprises, is proud to present a mammoth 3-CD expanded edition of Ennio Morricone’s iconic score for the no-less iconic 1966 epic western by Sergio Leone: The Good, The Bad and The Ugly, starring Clint Eastwood, Lee Van Cleef and Eli Wallach. The Good, The Bad and The Ugly features what is probably the most instantly recognizable and famous of Morricone’s themes. But there is much more to admire in…
Cosa Avete Fatto a Solange?
Cosa avete fatto a Solange? (in English; What Have You Done to Solange?) is a 1972 Giallo film directed by Massimo Dallamano. The plot follows a series of violent murders occurring at a Catholic girls’ school in England where a young student has gone missing. It is considered a classic within the Giallo genre - an Italian term designating thrillers, mystery and horror films from Italy. Ennio Morricone’s haunting soundtrack is one of his premiere Giallo scores. It is now available as a limited ed…
Spasmo
Beat Records reissue the soundtrack for Spasmo on CD, the thriller film directed in 1974 by Umberto Lenzi and starring Suzy Kendall, Robert Hoffman, Ivan Rassimov, Guido Alberti, Adolfo Lastretti, and Franco Silva. For a story between thriller and mystery, Ennio Morricone has composed a soundtrack based on two recurring tonal themes, a pop ballad for choir and orchestra and a requiem that alternate with hallucinatory atmospheres between the experimental and psychedelic. For this reissue Beat Rec…
Il Grande Silenzio - Un Bellissimo Novembre
A deluxe release of the popular scores composed by maestro Ennio Morricone for Il Grande Silenzio and Un Bellissimo Novembre. Mastering by Enrico De Gemini and graphic layout by Alessio Iannuzzi, including brief notes on the two films. A classic in Beat Records' catalog is available once again. Presented in a jewel case with 12-page booklet full of artwork from the film; the reversible booklet features the original painting by the artist Sandro Symeoni -- one of the most illustrious painters for…
Una Lucertola Con La Pelle Di Donna
Beat Records presents the definitive edition of Ennio Morricone's wonderful score for Lucio Fulci's Una Lucertola Con La Pelle Di Donna (1971). One of the most valuable soundtracks composed during a period of great artistic fertility, it was created by the popular Italian composer for this morbid thriller by one of the greatest Italian directors ever, appreciated and recognized throughout the world. Long out-of-print, this double-CD edition offers around 90 minutes of music from the maestro's mo…
Senza Movente
* Edition of 300 * Quartet Records and GDM present the first vinyl edition of the killer Ennio Morricone score for Senza Movente (aka Sans Mobile Apparent), a 1971 French crime thriller about an investigator (Jean-Louis Trintignant) looking into the murders of seemingly unrelated people, all shot down by a mysterious assassin. Morricone’s score perfectly captures the paranoia taking over the French Riviera with an eerie main theme adorned with the whistling of Alessandro Alessandroni and a disti…
Ruba al prossimo tuo
Digitmovies presents a reissue of Ennio Morricone's soundtrack for Ruba Al Prossimo Tuo, a 1968 film by Francesco "Citto" Maselli. The 1995 GDM Music compilation With Love presented a collection of love themes by Ennio Morricone. One theme, from Ruba Al Prossimo Tuo, was enclosed directly transferred from the music track of the movie itself, but the source was in such terrible conditions that did not make it possible to create a CD master. An expanded suite (from the same disputable source) was …
Dedicato al Mare Egeo
* 2020 Stock * Dedicato al mare Egeo was a bizarre co-production produced between Italy and Japan from 1979, starring the famous Italian porn star Illona Staller (Cicciolina) and directed by the famous Japanese pinter, printmaker and novelist Masuo Ikeda (1934–1997) from his own script based on his novel “Ege-kai ni sasagu”, for which he won the Akutagawa Prize, the most prestigious literary award in Japan. Ikeda’s vigorous artistic activity even included screenplay writing and film directing. W…