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Thanks for that Dave. I'll pick it up once I go into a new credit card period!!.
Best
Pete
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I was at SAE's website to order some titles yesterday and quite by accident found this listed way down on their site. I originally glanced over it as I assumed it was just 'some foreign title' I wouldn't be interested in, but then I noticed after the Italian title was the English translation of the title, 'The Red Tent'. I hadn't heard this score since I had it on an album, though I did view the film on dvd a few years ago. (The film, viewed for the first time by me was a harrowing experience. I never knew this was a true story, it left me with a haunted feeling afterwards.) But the Morricone score is absolutely magnificent! I don't buy much if any of his works, but this one is up in my top 3 or 4 of his as my favorites; gorgeous, lovely themes and vocals.
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Apr 2, 2010 - 11:34 AM
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ghost of 82
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Hi guys, I'd like to thank everyone for their recommendations, will chase them up. Have ordered La Califfa to start with. I suspect all this will get very expensive but am really enjoying Morricone's pre-1980s material.
Since asking for suggestions on this thread, I also bought, after looking at other FSM threads here, Morricone's Giu' La Testa (wonderful!), Guns For San Sebastian (only got it yesterday, but sounds amazing) and Barbalu (I saw the film many years ago and while the film was flawed the music always stuck in my head).
I also ordered the expanded editions of Once Upon A Time In The West and The Good, The Bad & The Ugly. I know the music from these films so well but have never bought them on album.
My favourite Morricone score is Once Upon A Time In America. I guess that is a predictable choice but I have always loved the film and it's music... its melancholy feel has always struck a chord in me.
Anway, thanks again for your suggestions, much appreciated!
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Jul 26, 2012 - 12:51 AM
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Tall Guy
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What a shame this new release doesn´t appear to have that marvelous cue for the Russian radio ham. It´s a welcome scherzo in an otherwise sombre, but beautiful, score.
Just found (and watched) The Red Tent via the miracle of You Tube. An unusual and enjoyable film, posing some hard questions about leadership - and acting as a little time capsule about the Soviet attitude to co-operation in helping to make the film. Peter Finch is excellent as the tortured General Nobile, while top-billed Sean Connery (barely 40 but looking 60, made up as the 55 year-old Roald Amundsen), Claudia Cardinale and Hardy Kruger provide solid support.
But of course, I watched it for the music, having loved the Morricone score for over 30 years. It doesn't disappoint. The love theme follows the putative relationship between Cardinale and a slightly Brando-ish Swedish meteorologist, the former pursuading Amundsen to attempt a rescue, in a plot device that I suspect only exists in this film. There's also a little of Thor's diegetic music, when Amundsen plays the short introductory organ piece that leads to one of the versions of "Do Dreams Go On?" The masterpiece "Others Who Will Follow Us" is of course a composite of the many tense parts of the score and works beautifully against the brutal Arctic backdrop.
Some news for Les is that the scherzo he mentions appears to come from Alexander Zatsepin's score for the Russian release, and can be found here:
http://www.rarecds.us/Cataloge/Ennio%20Morricone/The%20Red%20Tent/CD.htm
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Mar 19, 2020 - 4:42 AM
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Hurdy Gurdy
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So this has been re-issued on CD again recently, with even more improved sound?
I only ever had the LP, from those old, dark collecting days.
I remember liking a lot of it (the lovely/tragic typical Morricone pieces, a bit like Orca) but struggling through the lengthy 22 minute B-side suite full of Thing-like things.
Anyway, I bought a copy of this new CD from Ebay.
I don't like the garish red cover artwork, but thankfully, it's a flipper cover with the white background 'Eiger Sanction-like' artwork from the old LP I had/have, so I switched that.
Just listening to it now and it's very good. I could be back in our old house (me mum and dads), in my bedroom, lying on my bed, LP cover held aloft and under scrutiny, as the sounds flow all around me.
I haven't gotten to the 22 minute track yet*, so it will be interesting (to me) how my new, improved, more mature and sensible (can even listen to some jazzy scores now) self will cope with it, compared to that young, silly, immature, close-minded buffoon who used to masquerade as me in the 70s and 80s.
*or the bonus cues
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You've just been describing me,apart from the Williams references 
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