The Legend Of 1900: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack [Soundtrack]

the legend of 1900: original motion picture soundtrack [soundtrack]

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Italian director Giuseppe Tornatore billed The Legend of 1900 not as a film, but rather a fable. But crucially, it's also that rare film whose musical score essentially involves one of its lead characters. Here, the great composer Ennio Morricone has concocted a score that's as magical as Cinema Paradiso, the team's previous musical watershed, yet gratifyingly disparate. Though Morricone takes many of his thematic cues from the rich, raucous music of the jazz age (including rags by Jelly Roll Morton and Scott Joplin), he seamlessly fuses them with his own pastoral neoclassicism and distinctly modern sensibilities. The result is a score whose philosophical kinship with The Mission is as alike as their music is wholly different--a masterful fusion of dissimilar elements in a compelling, new whole. While jazz purists may balk, Morricone devotees will be enraptured. Though his career has spanned 40 years and some 400 films, Il Maestro's invention and playful exuberance once again seem both ageless and exhilarating. And if the closing song, "Lost Boys Calling" (with lyrics and vocals by Roger Waters and underwrought guitar solos by Eddie Van Halen), seems something of a loopy, last-minute record-company gambit, simply consider it an early entry for Canto Morricone, Vol. 5. --Jerry McCulley

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The Legend Of 1900: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack [Soundtrack]
The Legend Of 1900: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack
Average customer rating: 4 out of 5 stars
  • A well-kept secret!
  • Unjustly low rating is not due to the music that's ON the album
  • This is the One to BUY
  • Good movie, great soundtrack
  • La Leggenda del Pianiste sull Oceano.
 The Legend Of 1900: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack
Ennio Morricone
Manufacturer: Sony
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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ASIN: B00001XDLM
Release Date: 1999-10-12

Tracks:

  1. 1900's Theme - Accademia Musicale Italiana/Ennio Morricone
  2. The Legend Of The Pianist - Fausto Anzelmo/Gianni Oddi/Accademia Musicale Italiana/Ennio Morricone
  3. The Crisis - Gilda Butta/Accademia Musicale Italiana/Ennio Morricone
  4. The Crave - Amedeo Tommasi/Accademia Musicale Italiana/Ennio Morricone
  5. A Goodbye To Friends - Gianni Oddi/Accademia Musicale Italiana/Ennio Morricone
  6. Study For Three Hands - Gilda Butta/Accademia Musicale Italiana/Ennio Morricone
  7. Playing Love - Gianni Oddi/Cicci Santucci/Accademia Musicale Italiana/Ennio Morricone
  8. A Mozart Reincarnated - Gilda Butta/Accademia Musicale Italiana/Ennio Morricone
  9. Child - Accademia Musicale Italiana/Ennio Morricone
  10. 1900's Madness #1 - Amedeo Tommasi/Accademia Musicale Italiana/Ennio Morricone
  11. Danny's Blues - Amedeo Tommasi/Accademia Musicale Italiana/Ennio Morricone
  12. Second Crisis - Accademia Musicale Italiana/Ennio Morricone
  13. Peacherine Rag - Alexander Ragtime Band
  14. Nocturne With No Moon - Gilda Butta/Accademia Musicale Italiana/Ennio Morricone
  15. Before The End - Accademia Musicale Italiana/Ennio Morricone
  16. Playing Love - Gilda Butta/Accademia Musicale Italiana/Ennio Morricone
  17. I Can And Then - Accademia Musicale Italiana/Ennio Morricone
  18. 1900's Madness #2 - Amedeo Tommasi/Accademia Musicale Italiana/Ennio Morricone
  19. Silent Goodbye - Accademia Musicale Italiana/Ennio Morricone
  20. Ships And Snow - Accademia Musicale Italiana/Ennio Morricone
  21. Lost Boys Calling - Roger Waters/Edward Van Halen/Accademia Musicale Italiana/Ennio Morricone

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Italian director Giuseppe Tornatore billed The Legend of 1900 not as a film, but rather a fable. But crucially, it's also that rare film whose musical score essentially involves one of its lead characters. Here, the great composer Ennio Morricone has concocted a score that's as magical as Cinema Paradiso, the team's previous musical watershed, yet gratifyingly disparate. Though Morricone takes many of his thematic cues from the rich, raucous music of the jazz age (including rags by Jelly Roll Morton and Scott Joplin), he seamlessly fuses them with his own pastoral neoclassicism and distinctly modern sensibilities. The result is a score whose philosophical kinship with The Mission is as alike as their music is wholly different--a masterful fusion of dissimilar elements in a compelling, new whole. While jazz purists may balk, Morricone devotees will be enraptured. Though his career has spanned 40 years and some 400 films, Il Maestro's invention and playful exuberance once again seem both ageless and exhilarating. And if the closing song, "Lost Boys Calling" (with lyrics and vocals by Roger Waters and underwrought guitar solos by Eddie Van Halen), seems something of a loopy, last-minute record-company gambit, simply consider it an early entry for Canto Morricone, Vol. 5. --Jerry McCulley

Customer Reviews:

5 out of 5 stars A well-kept secret!.......2007-05-20

This was such a good movie! I can't believe I had never heard of it- it should have won awards. I loved it so much I made everyone I knew see it. The only thing was I didn't notice all the F-bombs until watching it with my mom, then I was uncomfortably aware of them. Some were pretty necessary to the story but not all of them were. Other than that this is now one of my favorite movies of all time.

5 out of 5 stars Unjustly low rating is not due to the music that's ON the album.......2006-12-29

That would be the fault of Sony, for not including all the tracks as in the full original Italian version. I've bought that version, and I don't think I missed out on so much. After all, the highlight of this album, worth the price of admission alone, is Morricone's single best work out of many, many film scores: Track 2, "The Legend of the Pianist." Romantic, lush, exhilirating, it's an 8-minute joyride with a narrative development and resolution all unto itself. It goes well beyond any movie that it may have been scored for. For sheer beauty, it goes beyond "Deborah's Theme" (Once Upon a Time in America), "Love in the Morning" (Lolita), the main theme to "Once Upon a Time in the West," "Cinema Paradiso," "Gabriel's Oboe" (The Mission), etc. etc. It's apparently become a staple in Morricone's concert performances, and for good, obvious reason. I'm also plenty delighted with the other richly Romantic tracks on this album: "1900's Theme" (exhiliration in 98 seconds), "The Crisis," "Nocturne with no Moon," the two versions of "Playing Love," "Mozart Reincarnated," and "Ships and Snow." Out of the several major Morricone soundtracks I own or have heard (see above), this is rather easily my favorite.

It's a shame that this score hasn't gotten the recognition it deserves, simply because the movie it was scored for has received little recognition. I hope that I will be pleased to see "The Legend of the Pianist" becoming, in time, widely recognized as the outstanding piece of music that it is. Romanticism in music is still alive, and it's in film scores, and we have composers like Morricone to thank for this.

5 out of 5 stars This is the One to BUY.......2006-11-18

John K had it right (and thank you, sir). Go to Intermezzo to order this CD to get ALL the music from this terrific movie. The website is easy to navigate and their service is superb. Total cost was around $22 and this CD is worth every penny.

4 out of 5 stars Good movie, great soundtrack.......2006-07-05

I saw the movie "The Legend of 1900" after reading a review of it. It seemed like an interesting idea. The movie was pretty good. The music in the movie was outstanding. I wish I could get the complete musical score, but this CD has a good amount of the music from the movie. I enjoy piano music and this has an assortment of classically influenced music, as well as some early jazz type numbers. I recommend seeing the movie and I heartily recommend this soundtrack.

5 out of 5 stars La Leggenda del Pianiste sull Oceano........2006-02-20

This soundtrack is absolutely incredible! However, I just wanted to put a word in about the Italian version. I found the 29-track version while I was in Italy this past summer. I was ecstatic! I bought it and listened to it every chance I could get. It is well worth the amount on the site refrenced to in another review. I highly recommend making the purchase. You'll be glad you did!

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