Excuse me if this has already been posted. Finding lengthy footage of any composer, let alone major ones, doing what they do on the scoring stage is rare unless the score is from some movie that is some big expensive American epic. Here is some unique video of Ennio Morricone working on the 1993 thriller IL LUNGO SILENZIO (THE LONG SILENCE). He talks to director Margarethe Von Trotta in the booth (anybody know what they are saying?) and even goes around individually correcting the choral music. This is probably because it is a Bulgarian orchestra and he doesn’t want to take the chance of something being lost in translation. Anyway big thanks to whoever shot this. It was obviously done for promotion but we usually see this stuff severely edited and do not get this much natural movement and observation.
What is extremely cool is that while most of this is good scoring music. Like HATEFUL 8 his main title was unexpected, maybe not totally accessible to some but powerfully original:
Did you do Long Silence as part of your series? If not, perfect opportunity to expand and turn this thread into it Henry! Its a score that probably warrants the Morricone series treatment!
The above video is from the original recording sessions with the Bulgarian Symphony Orchestra and Choir. The recording was made at NDK Studios (National Palace of Culture) in Sofia probably in early 1993.
Many thanks, Henry ! It is always moving to see these footages of recording.
From 12:11 to 13:10 and 15:31 to 16:26, is totally heard a mixt choir alone. It was used in "In morte di un magistrato" (between 1:42 and 2:30) but partially masked by the orchestra.
This great track gives me goose skin. The video makes me listen again to this soundtrack, a little forgotten. It gives me the wish to watch the film I never seen. But I think there is no DVD, even an Italian one.
