Quartet Records has announced a new soundtrack album for the 1979 thriller Bloodline based on Sidney Sheldon’s bestseller, directed by Terence Young and starring Audrey Hepburn, Ben Gazzara, Irene Papas, James Mason, James Mason, Romy Schneider and Omar Sharif. The album features the expanded and remastered original score from the film composed and conducted by Academy Award winner Ennio Morricone (The Good, the Bad and the Ugly, Once Upon a Time in the West, The Mission, The Untouchables, The Hateful Eight), including previously unreleased music. The 2-CD set, which is limited to 1,500 copies, is now available to order on the label’s official website, where you can also check out audio samples and find out more about the release.
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Morricone Segreto Songbook (1962-1973) Album Announced
CAM Sugar will release Morricone Segreto Songbook (1962-1973), a new collection of little-known gems composed by Academy Award winner Ennio Morricone (The Good, the Bad and the Ugly, The Mission, The Untouchables, Cinema Paradiso, Once Upon a Time in the West, The Hateful Eight). Among the titles included are tracks from the composer’s scores for 1962’s Crazy Desire, 1963’s Gunfight in the Red Sands, 1966’s The Hawks and the Sparrows & Wake Up and Die, 1967’s Operation Kid Brother, 1968’s Partner & Teorema, 1969’s The Year of the Cannibals & Love Circle and 1973’s Revolver. The album will be released digitally and physically on November 10, 2023. Visit Amazon to pre-order the digital, CD and double vinyl editions.
‘The Stendhal Syndrome’ Digital Soundtrack Album Released
RTI has released a digital version of the soundtrack album for 1996 Italian horror movie The Stendhal Syndrome (La sindrome di Stendhal) written and directed by Dario Argento and starring Asia Argento, Thomas Kretschmann, Marco Leonardi and Luigi Diberti. 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 the West, Cinema Paradiso, The Hateful Eight). The soundtrack is now available to stream/download on Amazon and most other major digital music services. Image Music & DRG Records have previously released a (now out-of-print) CD version back in 1998 (in Italy) and 1999 (in the U.S.).
Remastered ‘The Human Factor’ Soundtrack Album Announced
Quartet Records has announced a new soundtrack album for the 1975 thriller The Human Factor (Il giustiziere) directed by Edward Dmytryk and starring George Kennedy, John Mills, Raf Vallone, Barry Sullivan, Rita Tushingham & Haydee Politoff and starring. The album features the newly remastered original score from the film composed by Academy Award winner Ennio Morricone (The Good, the Bad and the Ugly, Once Upon a Time in the West, The Mission, Cinema Paradiso, The Hateful Eight). The CD, which is limited to 500 copies, is now available to order on the label’s official website, where you can also check out the full album details and listen to audio samples.
‘The Magnificent Seven’ Soundtrack Collection Announced
Quartet Records has announced a new 4-CD collection featuring the music from The Magnificent Seven feature film saga. The album features the original music from all four films in the series (1960’s The Magnificent Seven directed by John Sturges, Return of the Seven directed by Burt Kennedy, Guns of the Magnificent Seven directed by Paul Wendkos & 1972’s The Magnificent Seven Ride! directed by George McCowan) composed and conducted by Academy Award winner Elmer Bernstein (To Kill a Mockingbird, The Great Escape, Stripes, Ghostbusters, Airplane, Far from Heaven, Animal House). Visit the label’s official website to check out the track list, to listen to audio samples and to order the box set.
Expanded ‘Red Sonja’ Soundtrack Album Announced
Quartet Records has announced a new soundtrack album for the 1985 fantasy adventure Red Sonja directed by Richard Fleischer and starring Brigitte Nielsen, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Sandahl Bergman, Paul L. Smith and Ronald Lacey. The album features the expanded and remastered original music from the Dino De Laurentiis production composed and conducted by Academy Award winner Ennio Morricone (The Good, the Bad and the Ugly, The Mission, Once Upon a Time in the West, The Hateful Eight, Cinema Paradiso), including the content of the original soundtrack album in stereo and the composer’s complete score in mono. Visit the label’s official website for the full track list, to check out audio samples and to order the CD.
World Premiere Soundtrack Release for ‘Bandits in Rome’ Announced
Quartet Records has announced the world premiere soundtrack release for the 1968 Italian crime drama Bandits in Rome (Roma come Chicago) directed by Alberto De Martino, produced by Dino de Laurentiis and starring John Cassavetes, Gabriele Ferzetti, Anita Sanders and Nikos Kourkoulos. The album features the original music from the Paramount Pictures release composed by Ennio Morricone (The Good, the Bad and the Ugly, Once Upon a Time in the West, Cinema Paradiso, The Mission, The Hateful Eight) & Bruno Nicolai (The Mercenary, Operation Kid Brother, Shanghai Joe, Django Shoots First). Visit the label’s official website for the full album details, to check out audio samples and to order the CD, which is limited to 1,000 copies. A vinyl edition is set to come out next month (click here for more information).
Expanded ‘Midnight Cowboy’, ‘The Good, the Bad and the Ugly’ & ‘A Bridge Too Far’ Soundtracks Announced
Quartet Records has announced a number of new soundtracks, including a new album for the 1969 drama Midnight Cowboy directed by John Schlesinger and starring Jon Voight and Dustin Hoffman. John Barry (Goldfinger, Dances with Wolves, Out of Africa) who is credited as the film’s music supervisor composed a series of original cues and supervised the entire musical concept of the project. Everybody’s Talkin’ written by Fred Neil was selected as a main theme for the movie and was newly recorded with arrangements by George Tipton and performed by Harry Nilsson. The 2-CD set features a remastered version of the original soundtrack album, as well as alternate song versions on the first disc and the complete music (both songs and score) as it appears in the film on the second disc.
‘Two Mules for Sister Sara’ 50th Anniversary Edition Soundtrack Announced
La-La Land Records has announced the details of the new soundtrack album for the 1970 western Two Mules for Sister Sara directed by Don Siegel and starring Clint Eastwood and Shirley MacLaine. The album, which is being released as the ninth title of the label’s and Universal Pictures’s Film Music Heritage Collection, features the the film’s original music composed by Ennio Morricone (The Good, the Bad and the Ugly, Once Upon a Time in the West, Cinema Paradiso, The Mission, The Hateful Eight). The 2-CD set features the the full film score (released for the first time), including material that went unused in the picture and 37 minutes of previously unreleased music on the first disc and a newly remastered version of the 1970 Kapp/MCA soundtrack album on the second disc.
Ennio Morricone (1928 – 2020)
Ennio Morricone has passed away at age 91 today in Rome, Italy. The composer has written more than 400 scores for film and television over a six decade-spanning career. His best known film scoring credits include Sergio Leone’s The Good, the Bad and the Ugly, Once Upon a Time in the West, A Fistful of Dollars and Once Upon a Time in America, Gillo Pontecorvo’s The Battle of Algiers, John Carpenter’s The Thing, Roman Polanski’s Frantic, Giuseppe Tornatore’s Cinema Paradiso, Wolfgang Petersen’s In the Line of Fire and Mike Nichols’ Wolf . He received six Academy Award nominations for his scores for Terrence Malick’s Days of Heaven, Roland Joffe’s The Mission, Brian De Palma’s The Untouchables, Barry Levinson’s Bugsy, Giuseppe Tornatore’s Malena and won the Oscar for Quentin Tarantino’s The Hateful Eight.