
EuroArts, distributed in the US by Naxos, has released an impressive Ennio Morricone concert DVD in all-region NTSC, playable on any DVD player worldwide. Featuring 16x9 widescreen and DTS 5.1 surround sound (also in Dolby 5.1 and PCM Stereo), Morricone C...
THIS WEEK'S RECOMMENDATIONSStu Phillips' bombastic, rousing music to Glen A. Larson's (no relation) original 1978 TV series BATTLESTAR GALACTICA was one of the best things about that derivative space opera, a fully realized, authoritative, and wonderfully...
The latest issue of Music from the Movies, #45/46 magazine is now on sale, and is a special 120-page double issue featuring a huge tribute to maestro composer Ennio Morricone. For four and a half decades Ennio Morricone has produced seminal work for film....
Just in time for the Ennio Morricone’s special Oscar, to be awarded at this year’s Academy Awards presentation, a new all-star tribute album celebrating the music of the legendary Italian film composer, to be released by Sony Classical on F...
Italy's Digitmovies label announces April's trio of rare Italian soundtracks, released tomorrow, April 26th: COSA AVETE FATTO A SOLANGE (aka "What have you done to Solange?"), a persuasive score by Ennio Morricone for Massimo Dallamano's 1972 giallo, cont...
Gustavo Santaolalla, who two weeks ago won the British Academy of Film & Television Award for Best Film Music for his Babel score, repeated his win at the 79th Academy Awards, held last night in Hollywood. Santaolalla said of his score for B...
... Stereo), Morricone Conducts Morricone was filmed at a 2004 concert of the composer's film music held in Munich, Germany. The repertoire includes material from ONCE UPON A TIME IN THE WEST, THE UNTOUCHABLES, 1900, THE GOOD THE BAD & THE UGLY, A FIS...
GDM Music in Italy has re-released one of the many masterpieces of Ennio Morricone, the most recent being beautiful and fascinating music of the political thriller, SACCO E VANZETTI (1971). The movie tells the story of the anarchist Italian immigrants Nic...
At the age of 72, Dominic Frontiere still composes music in his home in Santa Fe, although he is far from Hollywood and far from the thriving career he had in Hollywood during the 1960s as a composer and producer for the cutting-edge science fiction TV sh...
THIS WEEK'S RECOMMENDATIONS Kirk Jones' NANNY McPHEE is the latest enchanting children's-oriented fantasy, following in the tradition of such young-kids-left-with-foreboding-relatives storylines as MATHILDA, LEMONY SNICKETT'S A SERIES OF UNFORTUNATE EVENT...

