DiscountDelight - Yo-Yo Ma Plays Ennio Morricone
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Manufacturer: Sony
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Binding: Audio CD
EAN: 0827969345627
Label: Sony
Manufacturer: Sony
Publisher: Sony
Release Date: 2004-09-28
Studio: Sony
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Summary: Track 12 - Ecstacy of Gold !!
Comment: Ennio Morricone is a master of many styles. Yo-Yo Ma is a master of Ennio on the Cello. The combination is outstanding. Fire up L'Estasi Dell'Oro (Track 12) and it will transport you there. How does he do that? I don't have any idea but it surely moves me.
Thanks, Steve Willie, Olympia, WA
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Summary: Superb
Comment: This recording is simply captivitating. Yo yo ma's mastery reintepretation elevated morricone's vision to newer heights. For those who are familiar with the movies, these scores now have another voice.
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Summary: Fantastic
Comment: I can only say one thing--I love this cd! The music is absolutely beautiful.
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Summary: Yo-Yo Ma Plays Ennio Morricone
Comment: Pop this CD in your car, head for the country, and watch the movie unfold. Its the perfect accompaniment at sunset. It could become the score to your own memorable road trip. Lush, rapturous arrangements of moving Morricone melodies, beautifully performed and recorded.
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Summary: Wonderful
Comment: Ennio Morricone is a legend. He's been writing film scores for more than four decades -- he's invented at least a couple genres within the field; he's written several classics; in the past year alone, he's written something like a half-dozen film scores, at least one of which, Fateless, is great, and at least two of the others are very, very good. He also has more "best of" and "essential" collections out than some composers have scores! And if you'd asked me before I picked up this CD whether we needed yet another one, my answer would have been no, No, Emphatically NO!
Sometimes it's nice to be wrong. This is a brilliant CD. Most of the usual suspects are here, but they've been arranged and reorchestrated for the includion of the cello such that they all sound fresh. The playing is warm and vibrant throughout, and the recording is fine. The music is dramatic, humorous and exciting by turns, and is arranged into a series of suites such that as a whole it almost plays more like a cello concerto than a film music collection. I've been known to find some Morricone collections more than a bit tedious; not so this one -- there's not a dull moment here. Since I bought this CD over a year ago, it has become one of my most frequently played selections -- and it seems to appeal to everyone. My 14-year-old sister described it as "intense"; my mother loves it; my dancer friends enjoy moving to it; I have yet to come across a single person who hasn't liked this CD. For me the highlight of this CD is, of course, "Ecstasy of Gold" but, as I mentioned, that doesn't necessarily mean much considering how much I love the whole thing.
Do yourself a favor and pick this one up. Highly recommended for any collection.
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Editorial Reviews:
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Ennio Morricone is well-known to moviegoers. His soundtracks for The Mission, The Good, the Bad and the Ugly, Once Upon a Time in America, Cinema Paradiso, and others are invariably warmly melodic and superbly suited to the films they grace. They not only add atmosphere; they help tell the story. For this CD Morricone has created new orchestrations for many of his scores, adding a solo cello part for the indefatigable Yo-Yo Ma, whose musical curiosity seems to be endless. Outside the films, these pieces tend to be lovely melodies, mostly pretty sentimental stuff, and, in the best way, gorgeous aural wallpaper. The most moving are the two selections from The Mission, but fans of Morricone's music will find plenty to enjoy here. Ma's playing, as always, is exquisite---warm, deeply felt (given the circumstances), and entirely idiomatic within the context. Perhaps not quite for the classical music lover, but an affectionate reworking of music by an important film composer. --Robert Levine
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