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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…
Dillinger e’ morto
Quartet Records, in collaboration with GDM and Universal Music Publishing Italia, presents our first seven-inch single with the premiere release of Teo Usuelli’s infectious score for Marco Ferreri’s 1969 cult film Dillinger e’morto, starring Michel Piccoli, Anita Pallenberg and Annie Girardot. The story is a darkly satiric blend of fantasy and reality. It follows a bored, alienated man over the course of one summer night in his home. Teo Usuelli had previously scored five films for Ferriri, a…
Almodóvar & Iglesias: Film Music Collection
* Edition of 300 * Quartet Records and El Deseo presents a retrospective of the collaboration between Academy Award-winning director Pedro Almodóvar and prestigious three-time Academy Award-nominated composer Alberto Iglesias, who have completed 25 years of uninterrupted work together, from The Flower of my secret (1995) to The Human Voice (2020). This collection brings together a selection of original recordings from those films, including their most celebrated triumphs - The result is a fasc…
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…
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…
Non si sevizia un paperino
* Edition of 300 * Deluxe vinyl reissue of Riz Ortolani classic score for one of the most iconic giallo ever made, directed by Lucio Fulci in 1972, starring Barbara Bouchet, Tomas Milian, Florinda Bolkan, Irene Papas, Marc Porel and George Wilson. What makes this movie so special? Without a doubt the film’s most original feature is its location. The story takes place in Southern rural Italy, trading the sophisticated environment of modern, urban Italy for the misery of a village anchored in the …
Marta … Dopo di Che, Uccide il Maschio e lo Divora
* Edition of 300. White Vinyl * Premiere vinyl release of Piero Piccioni score for classic erotic giallo, directed by José Antonio Nieves Conde in 1971, starring Marisa Mell, Stephen Boyd, Jesús Puente, Isa Miranda and George Rigaud. Marta (aka Dopo di Che, Uccide il Maschio e lo Divora), a play by the Spanish playwright Juan Jose Alonso Millan, was the starting point for the script of Marta, a film directed by Spaniard José Antonio Nieves Conde in 1971. Produced by José Frade with the Atlántida…
Harlem Pop
* Edition of 300 * Gregorio García Segura, also known as Greg Segura, was one of the most respected composers on the Spanish music scene during the 1960s and 1970s. Arranger and conductor for such folklore and pop stars as Sara Montiel, Lola Flores, Manolo Escobar, Marisol, Rocío Jurado and Lina Morgan, among many others, he was also well known as a film composer, scoring more than 200 films. In the 1970s he recorded a series of singles and EPs for his own label, Gregor, which had little distri…
Zoo Folle / Gli Animali… che Simpatia
* Edition of 500. 2020 Stock * Quartet Records, GDM and Universal Music Publishing Italia present the CD premiere of two cult Giuliano Sorgini scores for rare TV documentaries from the mid-seventies. Directed by Riccardo Fellini (brother of Federico), both Zoo Folle and Gli animali… Che Simpatia are nature documentaries produced for RAI in 1974 and 1975. Zoo folle showcases how imprisoning animals into small cages and their lives in zoos are really cruelty. The first episode was dedicated to the…
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…
8½
* 2020 Stock * Quartet Records and Gruppo Sugar proudly present a 2-CD set with the premiere release of the complete score composed by Nino Rota (La Dolce Vita, Amarcord, The Leopard, The Godfather) for Federico Fellini’s classic 8½. Starring Marcello Mastroianni, Claudia Cardinale, Anouk Aimée, Sandra Milo and Barbara Steele, the film is about a harried movie director who retreats into his memories and fantasies. Being one of the most personal and introspective films of Fellini, the movie was a…
Il Diario Proibito di Fanny
* Edition of 300. 2020 Stock * Quartet Records and Gruppo Sugar presents a complete score premiere of tuneful Nora Orlandi delicious score. Written and directed by Sergio Pastore in 1969. Il diario proibito di Fanny is an anthology film starring Giovanna Lenzi as four different women, all named Fanny. The film touches upon all the hot-button issues of 1968: illegal immigrants from the Eastern bloc, the Prague Spring, the Italian star cult and even abortion.
The score composed by Nora Orlandi (Il…
Un Amore
* Edition of 300 * Quartet Records releases CD premiere of Giorgio Gaslini masterpiece! Based on the novel by Dino Buzzati, Un amore (1965) focuses on architect Antonio Dorigo and his relationship to four women. Though he is already about fifty, his elderly mother still treats him like a child. Once he meets Laide, a Bohemian girl, Antonio’s life turns upside down and he is ready to break up his current relationship in favor of a fling with a strange, unreliable girl…
Un Amore was only Giorgio G…
Andrea Doria-74
* Edition of 300 * Quartet Records and Gruppo Sugar present the premiere CD release of this much-requested score by Riz Ortolani (Fantasma d’amore, Valentina, Mondo Cane, Woman Times Seven) in a complete presentation. Italian writer/director Bruno Vailati helmed an expedition in 1968 to film the wreckage of the Andrea Doria, a legendary Italian ship that sank near Nantucket (the number in the title refers to how deep the ship had sunk). The film is a rare treat to behold, one of the first diver …
Scusi, lei conosce il sesso?
* Edition of 300 * Quartet Records and Gruppo Sugar present the world premiere release of the score for a rare mondo film by no less than Angelo Francesco Lavagnino and Piero Umiliani! Directed by Vittorio De Sisti in his directorial debut, Scusi, lei conosce il sesso? (1968) was one of the earlier examples of the genre with small investigative episodes organized around the topic of human sexuality. Interviews and reconstructed footage are used to explore all aspect of sex from breastfeeding to …
Perversione / Stress
*Edition of 300 * Quartet Records and Gruppo Sugar presents the premiere releases of two Carlo Savina psychedelic cult classics. Manuel Mur Oti’s Perversione (also know as Diary of an Erotic Murderess and La encadenada) stars Marisa Mell as a seductress getting involved with both father and son in order to inherit a huge estate. The film’s score is largely based around a piano theme for the character of the son – actor Anthony Steffen was actually an accomplished pianist and had played musicians…
The Film Music of Franco Bixio
* Edition of 300 * Quartet Records in collaboration with Cinevox Records presents a collection of renowned Italian composer Franco Bixio that showcases four premiere scores on a 2-CD set. Directed by Italian actor Renzo Merusi, Deserto Di Fuoco (1971) is a heist adventure film set in the Sahara Desert as outlaw El Marish (George Wang), smuggler Jean (Giuseppe Addobbati) and tagalong girlfriend Juana (Edwige Fenech) get mixed up in an illegal weapons deal. Bixio’s music relies heavily on exotic …
RoGoPaG
* Edition of 300. 2020 Stock * Quartet Records presents premiere release of the complete score composed by Carlo Rustichelli (L’isola di Arturo, La lunga notte del ’43, Avanti!, Delitto d’amore, Kapò) for the star-studded anthology film RoGoPaG. During the 1960s, Italian cinema enjoyed a renaissance of portmanteau films—a collection of shorts culled into larger productions organized around a common theme. The 1963 RoGoPaG gained its title from the four directors behind the camera: Roberto Rosse…
L’Ingenua / L’osceno Desiderio
* Edition of 500. 2020 Stock * Quartet Records and Beat Records presents two Carlo Savina titles from the scary and the sexy side of the Italian Maestro. The first score is L’ingenua (1975), an Italian sex comedy starring Illona Staller, about a pair of con artists whose latest scam is about to be ruined by a couple of beautiful women who are unwittingly ruining their plan. Starting from the orgasmic vocal prelude of the opening titles, Savina’s score has a fun, bouncy feel where the presence of…
La Ragazza di Via Condotti
* Edition of 500. 2020 Stock * Quartet Records and Cinevox presents the premiere release of an Enrico Simonetti giallo score. La ragazza di Via Condotti is an Italian crime thriller starring Frederick Stafford as Sandro Mattei who investigates the murder of his philandering wife at the hands of her lover. By using his girlfriend’s skills to magnify a photo (with hints of Michelangelo Antonioni’s Blow-Up), Sandro traces down a mysterious stripper whose rich clients, including a powerful lawyer, m…