Once Upon a Time... The Essential Ennio Morricone (2004)

About this title: The two-disc Once Upon a Time: The Essential Ennio Morricone is a serviceable but unexciting overview of some of the highlights of the Italian soundtrack master's enormous catalog. Because it's designed for the newcomer and the casual fan, the play list consists almost entirely of songs that will be overly familiar to those who have been following Morricone's career for some time, with the umpteenth iteration of the spaghetti Western themes filling nearly the entirety of the first disc while ignoring the more obscure but equally interesting work the composer did in other musical and cinematic ... read more

Tracks:

1. Once Upon a Time in the West: The Man with the Harmonica [Morricone]
2. A Fistful of Dollars [Morricone]
3. For a Few Dollars More [Morricone]
4. Days of Heaven: The Harvest [Morricone]
5. The Five Man Army [Morricone]
6. Once Upon a Time in the West (Jill's Theme) [Morricone]
7. The Men from Shiloh [Morricone]
8. Guns for San Sebastian (Overture) [Morricone]
9. Two Mules for Sister Sara [Morricone]
10. A Fistful of Dynamite: Duck, You Sucker [Morricone]
11. My Name Is Nobody [Morricone]
12. The Good, the Bad and the Ugly (Main Theme) [Morricone]
13. The Good, the Bad and the Ugly: The Ecstasy of Gold [Morricone]
14. Cinema Paradiso [Morricone]
15. Once Upon a Time in America (Deborah's Theme) [Morricone]
16. The Untouchables (Main Theme) [Morricone]
17. The Red Tent [Morricone]
18. The Sicilian Clan [Morricone]
19. Exorcist II: The Heretic (Regan's Theme) [Morricone]
20. Moses the Lawgiver [Morricone]
21. In the Line of Fire [Morricone]
22. The Thing [Morricone]
23. Le Professionnel: Chi Mai [Morricone]
24. Hamlet [Morricone]
25. 1900: Romanza [Morricone]
26. Casualties of War: Elegy for Brown [Morricone]
27. Marco Polo [Morricone]
28. The Mission: The Mission [Morricone]
29. The Mission: Gabriel's Oboe [Morricone]
30. The Mission: Ave Maria -- Guarini [Morricone]
31. The Mission: On Earth as It Is in Heaven [Morricone]
32. The Mission: Epilogue -- The Falls [Morricone]

Note: This is a general synopsis. Each listing is further described below.