Ο Ennio υπήρξε υπερδραστήριος στα ’60s – όχι ότι τις επόμενες δεκεαετίες θα χαμήλωνε ταχύτητα.
Είναι η εποχή που χτίζει τον θρύλο του, αποκαλύπτοντας δεξιότητες, εξερευνώντας κινηματογραφικές και μουσικές φόρμες, δείχνοντας ότι δεν επρόκειτο να “τυποποιηθεί” ως συνθέτης των σπαγγέτι – άσχετα αν κάποια απ’ τα scores που έγραψε γι’ αυτά, ανήκουν στις κορυφαίες στιγμές της μουσικής για τον κινηματογράφο.
Ένα πρώτο δείγμα της παραγωγής του της περιόδου έχουμε εδώ, με αποσπάσματα από soundtracks για ιταλικές ταινίες, οι περισσότερες απ’ τις οποίες έκαναν διεθνή καριέρα – κάποιες παίχτηκαν και στην Ελλάδα.
Ennio was overactive in the ’60s – not that over the next decades he would slow down.
It’s the time when he builds his legend, revealing skills, exploring cinematic and musical forms, showing that he wasn’t going to be “labeled” as a spaghetti composer – although some of the scores he wrote about them belong to the top moments of music for cinema.
A first sample of his production of the period we have here, with excerpts from soundtracks for Italian films, some of which made an international career – some were also played in Greece.
00:00 IL BUONO, IL BRUTTO, IL CATTIVO / THE GOOD, THE BAD AND THE UGLY, 1966. Ελληνικός τίτλος : Ο ΚΑΛΟΣ, Ο ΚΑΚΟΣ ΚΑΙ Ο ΑΣΧΗΜΟΣ
Dir. Sergio Leone. Clint Eastwood, Eli Wallach, Lee Van Cleef
02:43 I CANIBALI / THE YEAR OF THE CANNIBALS, 1970. Ελληνκός τίτλος : ΑΝΤΙΓΟΝΗ 72 [Dove Sei, Dove Siete Voi]
Dir. Liliana Cavani. Britt Ekland, Pierre Clemnenti, Tomas Milian
05:10 MI VEDRAI TORNARE, 1966
Dir. Ettore Maria Fizzarotti. Gianni Moranti, Elisabetta Wu, Lelio Lutazzi.
07:48 L’ ALIBI / ALIBI, 1969. Ελληνκός τίτλος : Ο ΑΣΥΜΒΙΒΑΣΤΟΣ [Una Fotografia]
Dir. Adolfo Celi. Vittorio Gassman
10:19 PER QUALCHE DOLLARIO IN PIU / FOR A FEW DOLLARS MORE, 1965. Ελληνικός τίτλος : ΜΟΝΟΜΑΧΙΑ ΣΤΟ ΕΛ ΠΑΣΟ [La Resa dei Conti]
Dir. Sergio Leone. Clint Eastwood, Lee Van Cleef, Gian Maria Volonté
13:23 GALILEO, 1968.
Dir. Liliana Cavani. Cyril Cusack, Georgi Kaloyanchev, Piero Vida
15:38 E PER TETTO UN CIELO DI STELLE / A SKY FULL OF STARS FOR A ROOF, 1968
Dir. Giulio Petroni. Giuliano Gemma, Mario Adorf, Magda Konopka.
19:02 L’ASSOLUTO NATURALE / HE AND SHE AND SHE AND HE, 1969
Dir. Mauro Bolognini. Laurence Harvey, Sylvia Koscina
22:40 UN UOMO A META / ALMOST A MAN, 1966 [Accettare, Comprendere, Questo il Senso, il Segreto]
Dir. Vittorio De Seta. Pier Paolo Capponi, Lea Padovani, Ilaria Occhini
26:20 IL CLAN DE SICILIANI / THE SICILIAN CLAN, 1969. Ελληνικός τίτλος: Η ΣΥΜΜΟΡΙΑ ΤΩΝ ΣΙΚΕΛΩΝ
Dir. Henri Verneuil. Jean Cabin, Lino Ventura, Alain Delon
Evergreen scores! Beautiful tribute Oannes.
Thank you so much! I intent to do some more, he was one of my greatest heroes.
A timely appropriate post. Thank you.
Thank you very much!
Look forward to it.
Thank you Oannes.. My Hubby is a Western Fan, He has collected many of the old Western films over the years especially after they brought them out in CDs, The Good Bad and Ugly, He has a few of the Spaghetti Westerns 🙂 he only watched again at the weekend.. Listening Now Oannes, and thank you for these and bringing the man who composed these and others 🙂
Have a great week 🙂 🙏💜
Thank you very much Sue. I hope you’ ll enjoy the podcasts – my intention is to make some more [the guy has composed over 500 soundtracks – there’ so much to cover]
I had them playing in a tab as I travelled Wp this morning.. I enjoyed them a lot Oannes so thank you. :-0
I think I should have said DVDs 🙂
This podcast flew by! Love all the music. He will be missed, but he left us a lot to enjoy and remember him by!
Thank you for this compilation. Now, to enjoy part 2!
Wonderful part 1! To think I only knew two of these ones…
Off to part 2 🙂