if you haven't seen the movie "The Good The Bad and The Ugly", and judging from your reaction you have not, you owe it to yourself to watch not only that movie, but it's companion movies, "Fistful Of Dollars" and "For A Few Dollars More". The last section is called "Ecstasy of Gold" and is from the end segment of THTG&TU, and was played on set while the filming was happening. All this music was written by Ennio Morricone. These movie made Clint Eastwood a true MOVIE STAR.
Yeah Ned, "Once Upon A Time In The West" may be Sergio Leone's best work, but I was just concentrating on the Clint movies. Fonda, Bronson, Robards and Claudia Cardinale are stellar, and Leone's direction is uncompromising.
The three Clint Eastwood spaghetti Westerns of the early and mid-60s is something you should avail yourself to at some point. They not only made Clint Eastwood a star, but created one of the coolest most original movie characters this side of James Bond... the famed "Man with no name". The one thing all these movies had in common were the ridiculously powerful majestic orchestral soundtracks throughout, that you just heard. They almost steal the movies!! They have become iconic and literally define the classic American movie genre (though ironically they were all filmed in Spain). "A fistful of Dollars" "For a few dollars More" and "The Good The bad and The Ugly". I've seen them all a minimum of 10 times over the last 50+ years. I am rarely able to turn away from one should I come across them on cable. This orchestra does an amazing job recreating the haunting melodic and powerful music of these classic films. The Hugo Montenegro soundtrack album of these movies released in 1967 was one of my favorite albums growing up.
What gets me every time I see/listen to this; the soprano lady has so much voice you can hear her over the sound of an entire orchestra!! Great performance. Great comments and inquiries. They have done a vast amount of performances such as this one. As we say in Texas; y'all be safe.
Morricone weaves magic in the world. When my dear and gentle father went back to his spiritual home, Morricone's "Gabriel's Oboe" found its way to my ear, and subsequently made its way to the music at his funeral, or celebration of life. The movie it is from, "The Mission" is also a Faberge Egg of perfection, beauty, redemption. DeNiro's finest role, in my opinion. "Cinema Paradiso" is also film and soundtrack of profound beauty. Won the best foreign film. I can almost imagine the young protagonist, Toto, looking like you at that age. It ends with a climax of climaxes...that's all I'll say.
The 3 movies everybody is referencing are known as spaghetti westerns because director Sergio Leone was Italian. Clint Eastwood was already well known from the early 60's TV western Rawhide, but these 3 movies sent his reputation to the stratosphere. The 3 movies are top shelf classics in the western genre
I took a helicopter tour from Vegas to the Grand Canyon. The pilot played this song as he pointed out places the movie was filmed, as we flew over the desert. Pretty cool. Best movie ever!!!
Another film score written by Ennio Morricone which begins with a lonely whisper and ends triumphantly is "L'Arena". First featured in 1968’s Spaghetti Western movie "Il Mercenario", it was used by Tarantino in "Kill Bill Vol. 2", the scene which Uma Thurman punches her way out from the buried coffin that utilizes the effect of the soaring horn to the maximum.
Serge Leone produced three films starring Clint Eastwood. The western was considered dated as a genre at the time, but this trilogy revitalised the western. He was Italian, they were done on a budget with awful dubbing of the Italian actors, but they had a magic. A fistful of dollars, + for a few dollars more were shooting up bandits. The good the bad and the ugly was set in the American civil war, but don't go looking for any historical accuracy. It's the flavour that counts. The hanging man is a reference that recurs in the film, Eastwood playing a bounty hunter who brings in miscreants to hang. One of them is the ugly one. ( Eli Wallach) It is a great classic film that should be watched at least once. There are many iconic scenes in it. The music in the film was quite rough, but Hugo Montenegro sweetened it up, gave it a bit of class, and released it. It was No. 1 in the UK. The Danes have done an excellent job of recreating the Montenegro sound. I listened to one of the other film scores they covered, can't remember which one it was, but it wasn't very long. They are brilliant though.
They did such a great job covering this famous song. You can't go wrong watching any Clint Eastwood movie. EVERY WHICH WAY BUT LOOSE and the equally good sequel ANY WHICH WAY YOU CAN are highly recommended. His "spaghetti westerns" (called that because they were made in Italy) that made Clint famous are very worthy of your attention as well.
The amazing thing about this is, the Composer of the Music and the Director of the movie are Italians, the Orchestra is Danish, and the Conductor is an American. It just goes to show you that music will cross all demographics and races.
The Italian westerns, where Clint Eastwood plays a Man with no name. The 1968 album has music from all three films. Up to that time. When you see a gunshot in a western you would see. The gun being shot or somebody getting shot but not combined. These movies broke the rules and up on level of violence in film.
Ennio Morricone is a musical genius and composed so many amazing scores for many many movies. His music is just beautiful, like this one was. Everyone loves a symphony orchestra once they see one. I encourage everyone to go to the symphony and listen to some beautiful music whether it be classical, movie themed, jazz, you name it - they do it. I once saw the LA Philharmonic play to Bugs Bunny cartoons at the Hollywood Bowl. Bugs Bunny is how Gen X learned classical and opera music. That cartoon is full of them and it was fun.
Ennio Morricone was an iconic Italian composer with scores for multiple films. His score to the spaghetti western film, "The Good, the Bad and the Ugly" (1966) is regarded as one of the most recognizable and influential soundtracks in history. I recommend looking him up and checking out other films he's scored. The music always enhances the work on celluloid. His budget to score this film was low, and it's nice to see such a renowned orchestra perform it so wonderfully.
My favorite(not saying best)movie score is one nobody reviews, it is from the obscure fim noir C-Man by Gail Kubick and became his Symphony Concertante which won a Pulitzer Prize.
Shawn, your channel is turning into a wonderful music appreciation class - well done! I hope lots of young people find your channel and expand their musical horizons.
The hard work and dedication and discipline to pull this off is staggering, one note out of sync and the entire piece is ruined, this proves that people can work together to create something amazing. The wah wah whistler woman, Tuva Semmingsen (born 13 January 1975) is a Norwegian mezzo-soprano and coloratura singer. She's wearing gun shaped earrings and her wah wahs are in sync with a harmonica, she is amazing so check out her other works with this orchestra too, the other singer I have trouble finding out much about her, Christine Nonbo Andersen · Danish soprano vocalist, born 1985. The composer of this masterpiece is Ennio Morricone (1928-2020) and he is legend and rightly so, there isn't room here to list all he has done suffice to say he has been influential to many of todays composers who regard him as a God, the man was amazing, the director of the movie this is from is also a legend, Sergio Leone (1929-1989) and this movie caps off a trilogy, Fistful of Dollars 1964, For a Few Dollars More 1965 and this, The Good The Bad and The Ugly 1966 which are the films that launched Clint Eastwoods career into the stratosphere, he followed these films up with 1968's Once Upon a Time in the West which of course was scored by the legend himself Ennio Morricone, the works of those two legends have inspired many of todays filmmakers and composers, Quinten Tarantino and Martin Scorsese among others
Okay. This is a moment for you to take me seriously. 😇 Now that you've a taste of this, you need to watch and listen to the video I'm linking in the reply to this, It's a piece called "Ode to Joy," and it's performed flash-crowd style.
Here is another one from the orchestra. It is gamers music, in this case the game HALO: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-vJUmx_bSolI.htmlsi=4AbYNpb-33tVARyI
Who is not into tears or close to is wrong on this planet! Say this after hearing it several, let's say 200 times. Better than the Original. Sorry Ennio Morricone.
Metallica covers the "chilling" part. If you're interested in more classical, movie themes, I highly recommend the theme from Conan The Destroyer. There's a 3½ minute video on RU-vid. It's a little more fast-paced than this, but it's very nostalgic for me, and one of my favorites.
I know you want your reaction to be original, but you must do a little bit of homework the song the ecstasy of Gold is hurting so many movies TV shows commercials time to study up
