Plays Ennio Morricone

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Yo Yo Ma Plays Ennio Morricone

Gatefold 180-gram vinyl. Yo-Yo Ma Plays Ennio Morricone is a 2004 album of recordings from Morricone’s various film scores by brilliant cellist Yo-Yo Ma and Ennio Morricone.

The album was recorded with the Roma Sinfonietta Orchestra and Gilda Buttà on piano. Morricone functioned as orchestrator, conductor and producer. The album stayed 105 weeks on the Billboard Top Classical Albums.

Not only did the great cellist honor the the iconic screen composer on this 2004 album, but he teamed with him here, too.

Morricone orchestrated, conducted and produced this, as Ma and pianist Gilda Buttà joined forces with the Roma Sinfonietta Orchestra on “Sergio Leone Suite” (music from “The Good, the Bad and the Ugly” and “Once upon a Time in America”).

“Brian de Palma Suite” (music from “The Untouchables” and “Casualties of War”), “Moses and Marco Polo Suite,” “Giuseppe Tornatore Suite” and more. Music on Vinyl.

Yo Yo Ma Plays Ennio Morricone album includes:

Track Listings

Disc: 1

1 Gabriel’s Oboe
2 The Falls
3 Playing Love from “The Legend of 1900”
4 Nostalgia from “Cinema Paradiso”
5 Looking for You (Love Theme) from “Cinema Paradiso”
6 Main Theme from “Malena”
7 Main Theme from “A Pure Formality”

Disc: 2

1 Deborah’s Theme from “Once Upon a Time in America”
2 Cockeye’s Song from “Once Upon a Time in America”
3 Main Theme from “Once Upon a Time in America”
4 Main Theme from “Once Upon a Time in the West”
5 Ecstasy of Gold from “The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly”

Disc: 3

1 Main Theme from “Casualities of War”
2 Death Theme from “The Untouchables”
3 Journey from “Moses”
4 Theme from “Moses”
5 Main Theme from “Marco Polo”

Disc: 4

1 Dinner
2 Nocturne