Wolf. Love the movie and picked up the CD for a couple of euros in the second hand bin, my favorite Morricone score.
From the booklet:
"Working with Ennio Morricone and the resultant score was the most gratifying experience I've had in a long life of making movies" ... "Working with a true artist is always an enlightening experience. I was very happy working on Wolf with Morricone and I am proud of the result." - Mike Nichols
"This is a film of the highest level and of great important for the cinema." ... "The process of finding the creative balance for the musical pieces comprised many intense and passionately creative moments between Mike Nichols and myself." - Ennio Morricone
Easily Thomas Newman's Angels in America for me -- my favorite Thomas Newman score in fact! Runner up would probably be Delerue's Day of the Dolphin. Yavar
From Mark Harris's Nichols biography (re Virginia Woolf):
The studio had kicked [Nichols] out of the editing room. Jack Warner, who often removed directors during postproduction, had run out of patience and wanted him gone. The ostensible reason was Nichols's insistence that Andre Previn be hired to score the picture instead of the studio's choice, the older and more traditional composer Alex North.
Never heard that before. And how odd to hear North described as "more traditional." He was indeed nineteen years older than Previn (1910 vs. 1929). But both men achieved Hollywood success around the same time, and both were viewed as innovative and comfortable with jazz idioms.
