Music Box Records has announced a new soundtrack album for Adrianne Lyne’s 1997 film adaptation of Vladmir Nabokov’s novel Lolita starring Jeremy Irons Dominique Swain, Melanie Griffith and Frank Langella. The album features the film’s original music composed, orchestrated and conducted by Academy Award winner Ennio Morricone (The Good, the Bad and the Ugly, The Mission, Once Upon a Time in America), including 35 minutes of previously unreleased material. To check out audio clips and find out more about the soundtrack release, which is set to be released on December 2, 2013, visit the label’s official website.
The label has also announced the world premiere soundtrack album for the 1991 drama American Friends directed by Tristram Powell and written by Michael Palin who also stars in the film alongside Connie Booth, Trini Alvarado and Alfred Molina. The album features the movie’s original music composed and conducted by Georges Delerue (Platoon, Agnes of God, A Little Romance). The soundtrack will also be released on December 2. To listen to audio clips and find out the full album details, visit Music Box Records’ official website.
Lolita is a beautiful piece of work, but, the last Morricone score I would have expected to have been remastered and expanded. Now, if it was to have been “The Mission.”