Riz Ortolani - Magnificat [LP]

SUB OST (CODE 7)

£16.81

Cat. no: SUBOST009
Format: LP
Barcode: 0766429143727
Release Date: 04 Aug 2023
Genre: Soundtrack

Taken from the 1993 movie directed by Pupi Avati

Riziero Ortolani (25 March 1926 - 23 January 2014) was an Italian composer, conductor, and orchestrator, predominantly of flm scores.

He scored over 200 flms and television programs between 1955 and 2014, with a career spanning over ffty years.

Internationally, he is best known for his genre scores, notably his music for mondo, giallo, horror, and Spaghetti Western flms. His most famous composition is "More," which he wrote for the infamous flm Mondo Cane. It won the 1964 Grammy Award for Best Instrumental Theme and was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Original Song at the 36th Academy Awards.

The song was later covered by Frank Sinatra, Kai Winding, Andy Williams, Roy Orbison, and others. Ortolani received many other accolades, including four David di Donatello Awards, three Nastro d'Argento Awards, and a Golden Globe Award for Best Original Song. In 2013, he received a Lifetime Achievement from the World Soundtrack Academy. In the early 1950s, Ortolani was founder and member of a well-known Italian jazz band. One of his early flm scores was for Paolo Cavara and Gualtiero Jacopetti's 1962 pseudo-documentary Mondo Cane, whose main title-song More earned him a Grammy and was also nominated for an Oscar as Best Song. The success of the soundtrack of Mondo Cane led Ortolani to score flms in England and the United States such as The Yellow Rolls-Royce (1964), The Spy with a Cold Nose (1966), The Biggest Bundle of Them All (1968) and Buona Sera, Mrs. Campbell (1968). He also scored the 1972 flm The Valachi Papers, directed by Terence Young and starring Charles Bronson. Ortolani scored all or parts of over 200 flms, including German westerns like Old Shatterhand (1964) and a long series of Italian giallos, Spaghetti Westerns, Eurospy flms, Exploitation flms and mondo flms. These include Il Sorpasso (1962), Castle of Blood (1964), Africa Addio (1966), Day of Anger (1967), Anzio (1968), The McKenzie Break (1970), The Hunting Party (1971), A Reason to Live, a Reason to Die (1972), Seven Blood-Stained Orchids (1972), The Fifth Musketeer (1979), From Hell to Victory (1979), the controversial Ruggero Deodato flms Cannibal Holocaust (1980) and The House on the Edge of the Park (1980), and the frst series of La piovra (1984). In later years he scored many flms for Italian director Pupi Avati. His music was used on soundtracks for Grand Theft Auto: London 1969 (1999), Kill Bill: Volume 1 (2003), Kill Bill: Volume 2 (2004), Drive (2011) and Django Unchained (2012).

In 2013, he was awarded the Lifetime Achievement Award from the World Soundtrack Academy.

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