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May 23, 2019 - 12:39 PM
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ryanpaquet
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CINEMA MORRICONE: An Intimate Celebration
Sara Andon, Flute – Simone Pedroni, Piano
Produced by Robert Townson
Amazon begins shipping CDs today! CD and digital release tomorrow ... May 24!
https://www.amazon.com/Cinema-Morricone-Celebration-Sara-Andon/dp/B07NHQRRZL/ref
This album presents ""Morricone unplugged"", a beautiful distillation of his finest melodies in haunting, intimate arrangements for flute and piano. Its the perfect chill out album, essential music for relaxation and well being. The album contains all his most beloved scores including ""The Mission"", ""Once Upon a Time in the West"", ""The Good, The Bad and the Ugly"", ""Cinema Paradiso"", ""Days of heaven"" and ""The Untouchables"". This release has been produced by the award-winning producer Robert Townson, who has worked with many of the legends of movie music, including John Williams, Has Zimmer, Michael Legrand and Morricone himself. The music is transcribed by pianist Simone Pedroni. A winner of the Van Cliburn Competition, he has appeared in major concert halls around the globe and worked with musicians such as Riccardo Chailly, Zubin Mehta, Eliahu Inbal and Leonard Slatkin. His transcriptions of the film music of John Williams been praised by the composer himself. Sara Andon is a flute virtuoso who has appeared on numerous major soundtracks including: ""The Jungle Book"", ""The Fast and the Furious 7 & 8"", ""Tron"", ""Straight Outta Compton"" and ""The Wolverine"". She has worked with many of the foremost film composers of the day such as Marco Beltrami, Brian Tyler, Lalo Schfirin and Mark Isham. This album brings the music of Morricone to a new, young audience in an exciting new way.
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I wonder if it'll be a new era of re-recordings like this, or if we can expect any original recordings of scores.
And if now that he's not longer at Varese, if he'll communicate with us here like other labels have (LLLR, Music box, PlanetSounds, Kronos, Intrada, Kritzerland -- off the top of my head).
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Just what the.world needs.....
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I went to Amoeba here in Hollywood as they carry everything. They told me they did not have this in stock and would not be ordering it. Very very strange that one of the biggest and most popular music stores isn’t carrying this. Real bummer. Looks like I’ll have to order it online.
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Glad to see Townson still in the game.
That Spartacus box set bought him a lifetime's worth of credit, in my book. And a lot more besides.
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I went to Amoeba here in Hollywood as they carry everything. They told me they did not have this in stock and would not be ordering it. Very very strange that one of the biggest and most popular music stores isn’t carrying this. Real bummer. Looks like I’ll have to order it online.
Amoeba in SF has really.gone down in ordering new soundtracks.
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Glad to see Townson still in the game.
That Spartacus box set bought him a lifetime's worth of credit,.....s.
And a lifetime of debt.
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Glad to see Townson still in the game.
That Spartacus box set bought him a lifetime's worth of credit,.....s.
And a lifetime of debt.
Sadly, no. He gleefully spent Chris Kuchler's money. And Chris was not happy about the tally. I ran into him at the bank and he was really REALLY not happy about the tally.
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Glad to see Townson still in the game.
That Spartacus box set bought him a lifetime's worth of credit, in my book. And a lot more besides.
Agreed. That was a great set and I also love the variations composed as tributes by modern composers.
We can now confirm TWO purchases!
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Glad to see Townson still in the game.
That Spartacus box set bought him a lifetime's worth of credit,.....s.
And a lifetime of debt.
Sadly, no. He gleefully spent Chris Kuchler's money. And Chris was not happy about the tally. I ran into him at the bank and he was really REALLY not happy about the tally.
The Townson Extravagance
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I very much respect Mr. Townson's contribution to the world of film music and I'm endlessly thankful for the many great releases we've seen by the likes of Varese. Also, it should be acknowledged that he was one of the first players in the soundtrack re-issue game.
For the last decade, however, most of what I've seen were overblown marketing campaigns for so-so releases. There have been several releases that made collectors' dreams come true, but over-pricing, brickwalled and over-processed sound, incomplete releases and mediocre package design have not been the exception, but the rule. We've constantly seen much better works by the likes of Intrada, Kritzerland, FSM, Quartet and La La Land - and all with less fuzz about them.
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