Quartet Records, in collaboration with GDM and EMI General Music, presents a remastered reissue of the ultimate edition of the obscure Ennio Morricone score for Cuore di Mamma, a dramatic, grotesque story directed by Salvatore Samperi in 1969. It is the story of Lorenza (Carla Gravina), a mother of three children who is unable to communicate. Her attitude is childish, impassive, conformist in form and substance. A mother with a heart of stone, she is harassed by political extremism from different sides.

The fascinating score of Cuore di Mamma stands out for its distinctive thematic variety recognizable as Morricone in a feverish state in the most prolific period of his career. The film, with a recurrent gaze toward a children’s universe that has lost its innocence and a focus on conflict and violence, has its musical equivalent in a lullaby whose function is to contradict the image, to openly oppose it. It features the melodic choral works of Alessandro Alessandroni’s Il Cantori Moderni along with Le voci bianche di Renata Cortiglioni and the arrangements of Bruno Nicolai.

No album of Cuore di Mamma was released at the time, but the mock-up album prepared by Morricone was first released in the mid-nineties on the Point label. Subsequently, in 2004, an expanded edition was released on the Saimel label, including virtually all the music recorded by the composer for the film. That same selection, supervised by Dániel Winkler and Claudio Fuiano, is here revised and mastered by Chris Malone from the first-generation stereo master tapes. The booklet includes liner notes by Miguel Angel Órdóñez discussing the movie, the music and the composer.