ENNIO MORRICONE

The romantic side of Maestro Morricone contrasts the dramatic side of Thriller and Crime genre where dissonances always dominate.

For 'TIE ME UP!' (1989) Morricone composed a delicate love theme for his one and only collaboration with the great Spanish film director Pedro Almodovar. For 'FOR LOVE' (1976) he created a motif for piano and orchestra as a back- ground to a love triangle. The first sexual experiences of a teenager with older women at the end of the war in 'DISOBEDIENCE' (1981) are accompanied by piano, strings and oboe. “Desperate love theme” from 'MAKING LOVE' (2000) is a very nostalgic classic tune for violin and orchestra.

“Per le antica scale (Preludio)” from 'DOWN THE ANCIENT STAIRS' (1975) is a captivating, slow and sensual, love tune for piano and orchestra with a predominant flute solo. “Beata and Joe” from 'THE STAR MAKER' (1995) a sentimental theme for the two protagonists performed by an orchestra with the intervention of a classical guitar in the second part. The crystal voice of soprano Edda Dell’Orso appears very frequently in Ennio Mor- ricone’s soundtracks as in the case of 'THE GOOD THIEF' (1980), 'THE MASTER AND MARGARITA' (1972), 'WHAT HAVE YOU DONE TO SOLANGE?' (1972), 'ORIENT EXPRESS' (1979).