Focus

Description

global sounds 2004 //W;ENNIO morricone

maestro ennio morricone and dulce bridges met in 1995 when the performer sang "the breeze of the heart", in the soundtrack of the conductor for the film "afirma pereira" with marcello mastroianni.
At that time the conductor said the dulce bridges: "one day I would love to record a record with you". and dulce thought that was the ecstasy? But the conductor told him they should wait until he was at least 30 years old!

Eight years later, in the spring of 2003, they finally met in the home town of morricone, in roma, to record focus: a unique collaboration between two of the most respected artists in their areas.

focus contains pieces of each phase of the extraordinary 40-year career of morricone, in which he composed almost 500 soundtracks for films.

range from familiar themes of the cinema classics as "it was once in the west", "the mission" and "cinema paradiso", to some of the less well-known films and seen for which he composed soundtracks .
focus also contains five compositions made purposely by the conductor for dulce bridges.

in this brilliant album dulce bridges demonstrates its chameleonic qualities singing not only in various styles, but also in four languages: Portuguese, Italian, Spanish and English.

Artist

Ennio Morricone (Italian pronunciation: [ˈɛnnjo morriˈkoːne]) was an italian composer (born 10 November 1928, Rome, Italy - died 6 July 2020, Rome, Italy). A favourite pupil of [a776673], he also deputized secretly for his trumpeter father in a light music orchestra. He thus developed two distinct sides to his musical personality: one of these led him to embrace serialism and the experimental work of the improvisation group [a146775]; the other gained him a leading role, principally as an arranger, in all types of mass-media popular music, including songs for radio, radio and television plays, and the first successful television variety shows.
After many minor cinematic collaborations, Morricone achieved wider recognition with [a=Sergio Leone]'s series of four Westerns. There followed important collaborations with directors such as [a1549141], [a467451], [a3153386], [a4424119], [a4424126], [a4424127] and [a4424108]. Despite inevitable self-repetitions over a total of more than 400 film scores, his work provides many examples of a highly original fusion of classical and popular idioms.
Morricone's non-film works form a large and increasingly widely performed part of his output. Many of them use his technique of ‘micro-cells’, a pseudo-serial approach often incorporating modal and tonal allusions, which, with its extreme reduction of compositional materials, has much in common with his film-music techniques.
Among honours, he won the Academy Award in 2016 for his score to [a=Quentin Tarantino]'s The Hateful Eight and has received five Academy Award nominations between 1979 and 2001, a Grammy and a Leone d'oro, and was awarded the Laurea ad Honorem by the University of Cagliari. Between 1991 and 1996 he taught film music at the Accademia Musicale Chigiana, Siena.