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"The Ecstasy of Gold" (Italian: "L'estasi dell'oro") is a musical composition by Ennio Morricone, part of his score for the 1966 Sergio Leone film The Good, the Bad and the Ugly. It is played while Tuco ( Eli Wallach ) is frantically searching a cemetery for the grave that holds $200,000 in gold coins.
The film's famous climax, a three-way Mexican standoff, begins with the melody of "The Ecstasy of Gold" and is followed by "The Trio". The main theme was a hit in 1968. The soundtrack album was on the charts for more than a year, [2] reaching No. 4 on the Billboard pop album chart and No. 10 on the black album chart. [4]
The album Yo-Yo Ma Plays Ennio Morricone sold more than 130,000 copies in 2004. [163] Metallica has used Morricone's "The Ecstasy of Gold" as an intro at their concerts since 1983 (shock jocks Opie and Anthony also used the song at the start of their XM Satellite Radio and CBS Radio shows.)
Susanna Rigacci alternates her concert performance with chamber music repertory and since 2001 has been a frequent performer with Ennio Morricone on his concert tours throughout Europe and overseas. In February 2011, she participated in the Sanremo Festival as lead vocalist in the song "I Confess" by Mauro Ermanno Giovanardi, along with the ...
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In Morricone's film scores of the original Spaghetti Westerns directed by Sergio Leone, her dramatic voice was deployed as an instrument for the first time and to revolutionary effect, [3] such as in A Fistful of Dollars, The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly (in particular for "The Ecstasy of Gold" track) and Once Upon a Time in the West.
Ennio Morricone. This is a selected list of music artists who have covered or sampled one or more songs which were composed by the Italian composer Ennio Morricone.Over the past 7 decades, Ennio Morricone has composed over 500 scores for cinema and television, as well as over 100 classical works.
Morricone functioned as orchestrator, conductor, and producer. It was released as a standard compact disc on September 28, 2004 (093456), and a DualDisc using Dolby Digital 5.1 Surround Sound on February 8, 2005 (093472). Ma also toured a suite of Morricone's music. [2] [3] The album stayed 105 weeks on the Billboard Top Classical Albums. [4]